A woman was left housebound and unable to brush her hair after her skin became ‘addicted’ to a steroid cream used to treat her eczema – leaving her in “torture”. Megan Crome, 27, was diagnosed with eczema when she was six years old and found her condition worsened over the years.
She used steroid creams to help treat her eczema before discovering that she was suffering from topical steroid addiction (TSA) causing her skin to weep and scab. Megan decided to stop the steroids but now suffers from topical steroid withdrawal - which causes severe symptoms in prolonged steroid users - and spent six weeks off work in 2021 and had to be looked after by her mum, Claire, 55.
She describes her skin feeling like a “third degree burn” all over her body and had to have her mum brush her hair and dress when the symptoms were at their worst. Megan is now back to work but still suffers from relapses but believes she is now “slowly healing".
