Eczemabunny: Living With Moderate-Severe Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis)

In March 2017, the FDA approved a new drug claimed to be Eczema's breakthrough miracle. Dupixent, previously known as Dupimulab, is a biologic injection that is designed to weaken over active signaling between two key proteins in your body that are said to cause the underlying inflammation in the skin.  In one box, you get two, 300ml pre-filled syringes that should be stored in the refrigerator. This injection is  self-administered into the fatty parts of your thigh or stomach every 2 weeks and should be at room temperature when done so.  For your first dose, you'll most likely have to schedule an appointment with your dermatologist or a nurse to teach you how to correctly give yourself the injections. My appointment was about 30 minutes total and my nurse was nice enough to give me handfuls of things I needed like cotton balls, alcohol pads, spot bandages and sterile drapes to put everything on. Your first dose is going to be 600ml which is two...

I am an Asian-American, 21 year-old female that was diagnosed with Eczema when I was about 5 years-old following my family's move from San Francisco to Antioch in California. There's a significant difference in weather between the two cities so my parents believed off the bat that my condition was developed through the dry, hot, 100 degree heat. As I grew up seeing different dermatologists, I found that I had environmental allergies and asthma that both incorporated to the flare ups I would unpredictably get. My flare ups would last anywhere from days to weeks and happen as often as every other week to every few months. Just when I thought my skin was under control and improving, next thing you know I would develop flakiness, scrapes, raised bumps, open sores or pink tender skin prominently on my chin, mouth area, eyelids, neck, chest and shoulders I've been prescribed multiple ointments and creams such as Alcometasone, Triamcinolone, Elidel, Desonide and Lidex on top o...