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[Redskin]

For years i have had this, but no doctors have really been able to help me. I have tried to get help from this site as well but unable to.

I cant get my dry skin to go away, it is like a fungus that grows ON TOP of my skin, and the only way to get it away is to roughly scrub away with a towel after i get out of the shower (i do this once a week). But after i do this, my skin gets EXTREMELY red for a few days, because of the scrubbing away of the dry skin, but i have no other choice, it wont go away with lotion, because it ISNT dry skin, it is fungus on top of my skin, i dont know what to do, i probably have the worst skin on this board because of this unknown conditiion.

Has anyone heard of anything like this?

[oli girl]

Redskin, on 31 October 2011 - 06:47 PM, said:

For years i have had this, but no doctors have really been able to help me. I have tried to get help from this site as well but unable to.

I cant get my dry skin to go away, it is like a fungus that grows ON TOP of my skin, and the only way to get it away is to roughly scrub away with a towel after i get out of the shower (i do this once a week). But after i do this, my skin gets EXTREMELY red for a few days, because of the scrubbing away of the dry skin, but i have no other choice, it wont go away with lotion, because it ISNT dry skin, it is fungus on top of my skin, i dont know what to do, i probably have the worst skin on this board because of this unknown conditiion.

Has anyone heard of anything like this?

Has any doctor done a scraping and tested it????? Also, is it just your face or how about mouth or eyes????? May be sjogren's have you been tested for that??? Also are you a previous Accutane user??? Seb Derm possibly???

Edited by oli girl, 31 October 2011 - 08:49 PM.

[Redskin]

Nah, should i request a doctor to scrape it and test it? Will that finally see what it is? These derms i have been to suck ass, i swear Dermatologists are fake doctors, they took the easy path in Med school, could have gone into Orthopedic surgery but got lazy

[catherinemorland]

Does it itch, burn or hurt at all? Why are you so sure it's a fungus?

Any doctor worth a crap should have done the tests without having to be asked but yes. Yes, you should ask for a scraping. Fungal tests are fairly easy and fast to get through. I had ringworm once so I'm kinda experienced with it. There are alot of different fungal medications that you could get pretty cheap over-the-counter too. But you kinda need to know what it is before you can treat it.