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Grover's Disease: What works to help find relief?

Skin Health | Last Active: Dec 6 3:31pm | Replies (2018)

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That's just terrible to hear and I wish you a speedy recovery from all your suffering. I wish there were more I could say or do. Also, thanks for your comments on prednisone. I went to a dermatologist recently and saw a Physician's Assistant for another minor skin problem and told him I also had Grover's. He asked me if I wanted to try prednisone for it and claimed it was the "go-to" treatment for Grover's. From all my reading here on this forum, I was highly skeptical of that claim, but I took the scrip and got it filled, but decided not to take any of it for awhile since I had read that it can possibly suppress your immune system which is something none of us needs with COVID still hanging around. After reading your experience after taking it, I will definitely NOT be taking that stuff!

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I'm not sure if I mentioned that steriod's, oral and injected cause trememdous hair loss. I'm off all steroids for eczema, but last July had steroids injected into my knees, supposedly targeted and time released and explained it would work for 3 months. Yes my knee pain was gone, but that treatment, even though it was supposed to be limited to the knee area, causedthe worst hair loss on my head I ever had from other steroids, starting about 2 1/2 months after the injections. The steroid has worn off exactky 3 months later as advertized, so pain is back. My new hair growth is about 5 inches long. If I kept up with this treatment I would surly go bald.