TSW Cortisone Recovery v Sex Drive

Before I begin, very sorry about the way I filmed this video. I used the iPad for the first time and learned a valuable lesson about how I need to hold it :(

 

 The upside is that I feel incredible, look brilliant and have the best life I've had in many years. What do I chalk all of this up to? Simply getting off those dirty nasty steroids the doctors kept giving me. Power on!

14 month recovery update - Red Skin Syndrome

Red Skin Syndrome Update month 13.5

A letter to Dr Rapaport

I sent this email today, and wanted to share it with you all.  If it were not for Dr Rapaport I don't know where I would be.  Whilst i never actually met or spoke to him, by using the resources he made available, I was able to mentally commit to my recovery and stay off steroids permanently.



Dear Dr Rapaport,

My name is Josh Strawczynski from Australia and I was a sufferer of Red Skin Syndrome.  Thanks to finding information that you published and the many other people suffering from this alfiction, I have been off steroids for 13 months and am now 95% back to normal.  Whilst there is still a little dry skin and occasional rash on my chest, my life is back to normal and nobody except me is any the wiser.

I can't thank you enough for providing your research to the global community.  If it were not for you I would still be searching for a miracle cure to something that my doctors and dermatologists were inadvertently doing to me.  I consider myself extremely fortunate to have found you and your work and will remain indebted to you for all my days.

In my recovery I have kept a blog, mapping the progress with images and videos and through this have made contact with many many other sufferers, and helped to diagnose a few people also in the same boat.  It's only a drop in the ocean, but I'm glad to be sharing your work to help others and will continue to support as best I can.  My blog is http://redskinrecoverydiary.blogspot.com and as I said, there is excellent footage and imagery there.  I'm also a public speaker and insanely positive about life and the whole recovery process, so if there is anything in there that can help you, by all means you have permission to share it.

I just wanted to drop you a line to say thank you and if there is anything I can do to help, just let me know.

Josh

12 month before and after - Cortisone induced eczema

Cortisone Addiction Recovery - Month 11.5 update

Recovery from cortisone addiction which sent my skin very red and very dry for years and years is near the end!! For so long I was told I had terrible eczema, when in fact all I had to do was stop taking cortisone. Now 11.5 months off the steroids and I'm looking and feeling fabulous!!

Coming to a beach this summer

A friend sent me this and I couldn't help but share it. I think I'm about 6 months away from being fully healed, and this summer (approx 6 months away) I am going to be brown as a berry!! Throughout this recovery I have continually given myself things to look forward to, to work towards. This is one of those thing!