12 Jun
45 and I have genuinely been losing my mind over my skin. Not the flushing, not the mood stuff. My SKIN. It itches. All the time. My shins, my arms, the back of my neck. I scratched myself raw one night thinking I'd picked up something from the garden and it was just... me. My own body. And the dryness on my face is a different kind of dry to anything I've had before. Like the moisture has packed its bags and left without a forwarding address. I've tried three different moisturisers in the past two months and I feel like I'm putting water on sand. I'm trying to eat more protein and good fats because I read something about it and it can't hurt, and I have noticed my skin feels marginally less angry on days I've actually eaten properly. Marginally. Don't get excited. What I really want is to go to the GP with something concrete, so I've been taking photos of my face and arms every couple of weeks. Sounds a bit odd but I want to be able to say "look, this is what changed and when" rather than just sitting there going "it's just... different?" while she nods politely. Has anyone actually got a dermatology referral through their GP for this stuff or does it get brushed off as cosmetic? Genuinely asking x