Day erm, oh fuck I've no idea. Week six of ickyness.

[luckylove]

After five weeks of hell of no shampoo or conditioner and using nothing but bicarbonate of soda and apple cider vinegar and the occasional essential oil on my hair I was ready to give up. The greasiness refused to go away and it was still itchy. I thought I'd give it one last go and decided to increase the concentration of the bicarb. It worked!

Comments

[autopope]

One word of advice? Make sure to always keep the steroid lotion out of your eyes and ideally off your face. (Nasty side-effects if over-used or applied to eyes. Really nasty. You don't want to go there. OK?)

[luckylove]

Thanks for that.

I do remember enough medical school stuff to keep it off my face. (Only had to use a steroid cream on part of my face once when I got eczema on my eyelids. I hate my body.) The lotion is really easy to apply and as long as you keep your head tilted back it doesn't run onto your face. A tiny little bit got onto my forehead the first time I used it but that was it. I wash my hands afterwards and don't touch my head until it has dried. It's only a three week course and if it doesn't stop the itchiness then we'll try something else. When I do get eczema it usually responds pretty quickly to steroid creams.

[andrewducker]

Congrats on persevering. Takes a while for it to work, but it's really worth it.

[luckylove]

Unfortunately it's a bit greasier than I'm happy with today despite washing it in the afternoon. I think I may need a tiny bit more bicarb in the water. It's nowhere near as bad as it was thank goodness but it still looks bad in my opinion.