r/Dishydrosis

Hi y’all,

I’ve just discovered that community and I’m putting all my hopes in you guys. I have an extremely bad case of DE on my right foot. It appeared first a year ago, lasted a few months, and was eventually solved after a weeks long treatment of prescription betamethasone ointment…

Only to be back this year with a vengeance. Summer and dry, hot weather, makes it particularly bad. I’ve just now completed a two weeks treatment of betamethasone cream again, and while the main original lesions have normalized, I noticed two new clusters of blisters just this morning. It’s depressing.

My foot is in such a bad shape. I have extensive scaling of extremely thick hardened skin all along both sides of my foot and part of the sole. I have crevices and cracks that hurt so bad. In between the topical steroids I moisturize religiously but the damage is so bad, it seems like doing nothing at all.

I can take the long healing but if new blisters appear the literal day I’m supposed to stop treatment… then what ? It looks like the corticosteroids don’t even work as well as they used to.

To top it all off my family GP has moved out of our area and I have to rely on urgent care doctors who change every time for now. Some of them don’t even seem to know what DE is ? But most importantly, I have no idea what causes those flares, I’ve switched up soaps a million times and only use one product to moisturize, which is pharmaceutical grade. I wondered for a while if I might have a silent fungal infection that could trigger it, but nobody doctor seems to think it’s the case and no testing was done. Plus a blister appeared on my my left hand finger last week so it doesn’t seem to be tied to one location.