cessna152
05-03-2006, 04:23 PM
Okay, here is the deal, my 28 year old girlfriend is getting seriously depressed about this....
Sometimes (quite often recently) all around her eyes, the skin goes dark, then can either clear up or else progress to itchy, flaky, sore skin, which when rubbed, causes flakes of skin to fall off.
At first we reckoned it was some sort of allergic reaction. After all, thie dark eye thing is not, and never has been, in her family at all. She has not has any eye trauma, and is not deficient in vitamins and minerals.
At first she thought it was fish. Then (last week) we reasoned that it was diary products - most notably milk. So since about 5 days ago, she has not had any diary products at all.
But her eyes, if anything, seem to be getting worse.
Now she has tried all sorts of creams and lotions (Which I have no idea of what they're called) and she now reckons she is allergic to one of more of them.
Today, her eyes look quite bad. Not too bad to me, of course, but bad enough to be seriously dampening her self-esteem. Which, under the circumstances, is fair enough.
She won't go to the doctor, becasue she reckons they will just say it's some sort of allergic reaction. Thus, I'm on this site. I've done a hefty seacg of the net to find images/discussions about what my girlfriend has, but so far, have drawn a blank.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Cheers
Sometimes (quite often recently) all around her eyes, the skin goes dark, then can either clear up or else progress to itchy, flaky, sore skin, which when rubbed, causes flakes of skin to fall off.
At first we reckoned it was some sort of allergic reaction. After all, thie dark eye thing is not, and never has been, in her family at all. She has not has any eye trauma, and is not deficient in vitamins and minerals.
At first she thought it was fish. Then (last week) we reasoned that it was diary products - most notably milk. So since about 5 days ago, she has not had any diary products at all.
But her eyes, if anything, seem to be getting worse.
Now she has tried all sorts of creams and lotions (Which I have no idea of what they're called) and she now reckons she is allergic to one of more of them.
Today, her eyes look quite bad. Not too bad to me, of course, but bad enough to be seriously dampening her self-esteem. Which, under the circumstances, is fair enough.
She won't go to the doctor, becasue she reckons they will just say it's some sort of allergic reaction. Thus, I'm on this site. I've done a hefty seacg of the net to find images/discussions about what my girlfriend has, but so far, have drawn a blank.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Cheers
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Worried1977
05-12-2006, 03:20 PM
im trying to figure out what that would be also. my b/f has it, BUT he says it has happened in the past but went away he works at a coal plant. But this time he has had it for a year. we did move to a new house and have been here almost a year it seems thats when his eyes started to do that he hasnt gone to the doctor either and wont go. he did tell me has hay fever. i know his eyes get super watery and very itchy then start flaking. i havent found out anything. hopefully we will know