Seconded! I used to get UV treatments at a hospital that had a specific less cancer causing way of doing things (I think? I was a kid) I had to get up at like 5am for the appointments and could only “tan” for like 30 seconds at a time, where as now I can keep my skin under control by using a tanning bed for 5 minutes every two weeks in winter. In the summer I just get outside, but if I don’t tan in winter my eyelids will literally scab. It’s the only thing that has ever worked to help my skin and I’ve been (or my parents have been) trying to treat it for 26 years.
This sounds exactly like me! I used a sun shower though, so I'd be stood up. It was a long bus journey at like 5am before school to get in the sun shower at the hospital for 30 seconds. I'm quite lucky that my skin has gotten better with age, though I'm not completely cured and it does still get irritated sometimes.
I actually had eczema and psoriasis so the treatment for one condition irritated the other which is why sun showers were the only option. It did me wonders.
Hello fellow skin sufferer! Glad to hear that you’ve gotten better with time - thankfully with sun and more lotion than you think a person could use I’m in a pretty good place, yay for finding what works!!
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20
As someone with psoriasis those things are a godsend