Firefighters found themselves in a race against the tide to rescue an injured cow that had ended up trapped at the bottom of a cliff in rural Scotland.
14.04.2023 - 09:25 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A beauty therapist was 'addicted' to steroid creams for 40 years trying to tackle her painful eczema - only for them to leave her forced to wear a balaclava.
Karyn Flett started suffering with eczema patches on her face, hands and joints at the age of 11 and was prescribed topical steroid creams to tackle it. Ever since, the 52-year-old has diligently used the medication to soothe her itchy, oozing and inflamed skin.
But Karyn claims she decided to quit using it after beginning to experience sweats and rashes, similar to menopausal symptoms. The mum-of-three said she was left in 'agony' when she went cold turkey and stopped using the cream in September.
Karyn claims she went into 'full-blown topical steroid withdrawal' and developed a burning rash all over her body while enduring shakes and sweats. The beauty lover, who was housebound for six months and unable to work, said water felt like acid on her scorched skin and it was so itchy she felt like she could 'tear herself to the bone'.
Karyn even resorted to wearing a balaclava and full upper-body bandages at all times for three months to keep her weeping face from sticking to her pillow and to dull the relentless itching.
Now, she's sharing images of her swollen, flakey skin in bid to raise awareness of the potential dangers of long-term use of topical steroid creams.
Karyn, from Fife, said: "At age 45 I started to worry about one thing, the only thing I thought steroids did to you, which was thin your skin. I started thinking, 'right, I need to use these less'.
"I was going into bouts of withdrawal and getting these severe symptoms, such as shakes and sweats. I had symptoms similar to menopause. I went away in September and decided not to take my steroid cream, and went
Firefighters found themselves in a race against the tide to rescue an injured cow that had ended up trapped at the bottom of a cliff in rural Scotland.
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