u/Pil0ts

So for context, last June 15, my partner's dog went missing. It was really stressful and worrying because I'm also attached to her and love her so much. So we went searching for almost a month. A week after her going missing, I have severe itching phase around my legs and thought it was just my usual eczema flare up — until it wasn't. It then flared up on my other arm, then both legs, knees, armpits, abdomen, nipples and around my neck. Couple that up with intense heat and sudden rain (I live in Philippines), it was hell. My face was also in the danger of having eczema flare up.

After a month of searching for her, my partner announced that they found her (yayy!!). So when I visited them, my body's reaction to recovery was fast lol. It took at least 2-4 days couple with a lot of moisturizer and cortisone creams and ointment for visible result.

I know stress is one of the factors of my eczema flare up but it never occurred to me that it was this bad. I think I bottled up my stress and worry because I don't want to see my partner become so sad and almost lifeless when her dog went missing, and I tried to be positive for him. So please try and release your stress and don't bottle it up because it will definitely manifest on you physically.

Might be a conspiracy theory but I do think the increase of Data centers actually caused some irreversible increase of eczema flare ups. The heatwave coming from those data centers really f*cked up my flare ups because I never had this severe flare up for the past 25 yrs. It's so severe that my neck, lips, armpits, love handles, nipples, butt area, my private areas and knees have been so itchy that my improvement from my elbow went down the drain.