Can Amfexa cause eczema or am I allergic?
This is a lengthy post so I apologise in advance! I just want to preface that I am not 100% sure that this is being caused by my medication, but just wondering if this has happened to anyone else just in case.
Fast forward to now: I have been on Amfexa since end of Feb / early March and it has little to no side effects for me and I am really happy on it. I was previously taking Elvanse which caused me to lose a lot of weight and inevitably wasn’t sustainable to say on it.
(I was 9stone when I started meds and lost 1.5stones on Elvanse pretty rapidly and I’m currently 7stone 5lbs which leaves me with a BMI of 16.6 which is quite underweight as a 26yr old female 5ft6)
Current issue: At the start of March, I noticed a small red mark on my knuckle but no pain or cuts so assumed I had just knocked it and would clear, but it persisted for about 3 weeks and noticeably got larger and was quite swollen but still no pain. My GP gave me antibiotics incase it was an infection, but still didn’t clear and then I noticed a redness appearing on another finger on the same hand which was quite sore. I went back to the GP who prescribed a steroid cream and was pretty confident it would clear, but it didn’t. The redness had spread and again long story I went back to the doctors roughly 3 times up until now and had multiple steroid creams and blood tests. (Side note - I told every GP that I am taking Amfexa and no one seemed to take an interest in this or think it was connected). My bloods came back fine, and the steroid creams definitely reduced a lot of redness but didn’t clear the issues. At the start of May, my hand did start to clear up about 85% after a few days of not using any steroid cream but after about a week or so - which leads me to now, my hand is incredibly painful and massively flared up again.
It was only after racking my brains that I have thought that the only thing that I have changed since this started is my ADHD meds but would have never thought it could be connected as I am responding really well to Amfexa? I have been searching the last couple of days to see if anyone else has experienced this kind of reaction to Amfexa or any stimulant medication in general and saw a few posts saying it has either made people’s eczema worse or given them chilblains. I have Raynaud’s anyway and yes stimulants have made my hands/feet colder, but I have never experienced anything like this!
The main factors are: I am currently underweight and have had a lot of stress within these 3 months which I know can trigger dyshidrotic eczema but as no steroids seem to be helping - i’m left wondering am I having some weird allergic reaction to my medication?
I have a dermatology appointment next week as my GP has said it looks like dyshidrotic eczema/psoriasis (which I have never suffered with before) and I am hoping this will be more helpful to find out what is going on. I am currently in the process of my shared cared agreement being taken over by my doctors so I just wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this crazy side effect of their ADHD meds and did it go away? Or if this is totally a new separate eczema issue!!