My skin is horrible!

Hi, I'm a 17 year old girl and I'm annoyed with my skin. Well... since I was a child, I always have had "eczema" as the doctors called it. I had it mainly in the creases of my arms (other side of elbow) and sometimes it would spread all the way down my arm to my wrist. I also had it on the backs of my knees.

In the last 2 or 3 years, I have developed the "eczema" on my hands. It is not on the palms of my hands, only on my fingers, and mainly on the palm-side of my fingers, although it's also on the top side, but not as bad. The skin gets VERY dry and within a few hours of the eczema inflaming, the skin starts to peel off. The affected area is red and blistery, and the skin that peels off is crusty and white. Sometimes little bubbles or pimples form that ooze yellow oil out of them, but usually it's just dry and crusty. The area is rarely itchy, but if it has been inflamed for a few weeks or a couple of months, it can get itchy occasionally. I never ever itch my eczema, I don't feel the need to, even in the times that it gets mildly itchy once every couple of months. It always flares up in the same areas on my fingers. It can be inflamed by washing powder, shampoo, dish washing liquid, cold air, sweating. but no matter what the cause, it pops up in the same places on my fingers and arms. I can barely move my hands when it acts up, because the skin is so dry. The skin on my hands gets so dry and scaley that I can barely straighten my fingers because it feels like i do not have enough skin to. When the symptoms improve a little, the skin appears a bit shiny and wrinkled like the areas have been burnt and healed over or soemthing. I dont know, I cant explain it.

I still get the eczema on my arms as well, on the insides from my wrist to my elbow, and a little in the crease. This seems to have inflamed in the last couple of weeks, since I've started bike riding and sweating a lot. If I have had the red eczema on the crease area of my arms for a long time, once it goes away, there is no pigment in my skin and it is white. I am fair skinned, and I can still notice the very white patches. They don't stay white forever though, the colour returns after a year or something. This hasn't happened since I was 13 or 14, because I haven't had eczema on my arms for long periods of time since then.

A few months ago, I had the eczema very severely on the back of one of my legs. It was strange looking and not like the eczema on my arms. It was much more purple in colour and the colour stayed on my leg even when the roughness was gone, but now the colour is gone as well.

I shower after I exercise and then moisturize the rough areas with all-natural skincare that my friend makes, I wear gloves when I shampoo my hair, I wear gloves when I handle dishwashing liquid... but it's still coming back all the time! I was eczema free almost for about 3 weeks, but now it's back again since I've been exercising. I can't stop exercising... what should I do? I hate having rough crusty blistery skin on my arms and hands. The skin is all wrinkled as well...

All different doctors have told me all different things! Some have said it's eczema, others have said it's bacteria spread from my mouth, others have said it's an allergy to milk... they've said all kinds of weird things, and no matter what they tell me to do, nothing works! I have stopped biting my nails, it didnt go away, I have stopped drinking milk and having lactose, it didn't work, I have used shower lotion they told me to use, it didn't work, I have used steroid creams and they help a little, but I cannot keep using them longterm, and they stop working within a few days anyway. A doctor told me my condition is not eczema because it rarely itches... I don't know what to do! What is my condition, or what does it sound like? and how can I improve it? Thank you for reading! sorry that it was so long!
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Hi, I'm a 17 year old girl and I HATE my skin. Well... since I was a child, I always have had "eczema" as the doctors call it. I had it mainly in the creases of my arms (other side of elbow) and sometimes it would spread all the way down my arm to my wrist. I also had it on the backs of my knees.

In the last 2 or 3 years, I have developed the "eczema" on my hands. It is not on the palms of my hands, only on my fingers, and mainly on the palm-side of my fingers, although it's also on the top side, but not as bad. The skin gets VERY dry and within a few hours of the eczema inflaming, the skin starts to peel off. The affected area is red and blistery, and the skin that peels off is crusty and white. Sometimes little bubbles or pimples form that ooze yellow oil out of them, but usually it's just dry and crusty. The area is rarely itchy, but if it has been inflamed for a few weeks or a couple of months, it can get itchy occasionally. It always flares up in the same areas on my fingers. It can be inflamed by washing powder, shampoo, dish washing liquid, cold air, sweating. but no matter what the cause, it pops up in the same places on my fingers and arms.

I still get the eczema on my arms as well, on the insides from my wrist to my elbow, and a little in the crease. This seems to have inflamed in the last couple of weeks, since I've started bike riding and sweating a lot.

A few months ago, I had the eczema very severely on the back of one of my legs. It was strange looking and not like the eczema on my arms. It was much more purple in colour and the colour stayed on my leg even when the roughness was gone, but now the colour is gone as well.

I shower after I exercise and then moisturize the rough areas with all-natural skincare that my friend makes, I wear gloves when I shampoo my hair, I wear gloves when I handle dishwashing liquid... but it's still coming back all the time! I was eczema free almost for about 3 weeks, but now it's back again since I've been exercising. I can't stop exercising... what should I do? I hate having rough crusty blistery skin on my arms and hands.

I have used steroid creams and they help a little, but I cannot keep using them longterm.