@at.the.dresser: 4 weeks ago I started Eufidix cream on my chest, this is a topical chemotherapy treatment to bring potential sun cancers to the surface. It works by destroying damaged skin cells. 🗓️ Week 1: Skin starts getting red and irritated. 🔥 Week 2–3: Peeling, crusting, soreness, and scabbing can happen — and yes, it can look intense. That reaction usually means the cream is working. ✨ Healing stage: After stopping treatment, fresh skin slowly appears over the next few weeks. I have only just stopped treatment so my skin looks and feels red, it feels and is tight ! It is also one of the most painful things I have ever done. I liken it to feeling like a blow torch burning from the inside out. The pain and irritation has been constant, and I had a huge amount of reaction raise to the surface on my chest. My tolerance has been low, my mood low, with pain level high it’s hard to focus on other things, but like most women do I still looked after everyone else when I’ve really wanted to curl in a ball and knock myself out with a sedative most days. Am I glad I did it ? Absolutely ! As I would rather this than melanoma, and I would without hesitation do it again ! We don’t know what others are going through, this is an app where we see glimpses of each other, we peek into each others lives like voyours and we think we know people… we don’t ! Be kind to each other ✨ Wear your SPF ⚠️Not medical advice #EfudixS#SkinCancerAwarenessS#SunDamageA#ActinicKeratosisS#SkincareJourney

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