Yesterday’s installment was on blood pressure (fabulous again today) and potassium level (requiring blood tests, so who knows?). Today, it’s flaking skin and diarrhea. The first is something of a mystery; the second turns out to be another tricky exercise in getting medication at just the right level. Flaking skin. Had xerosis / xeroderma — the fancy name for the symptom — for more than a year, skin that flaked off in small patches, on my arms and legs (and nowhere else) leaving a snowfall of skin flakes wherever I sat or stood. Constant through changes in the weather and the seasons. Not eczema or psoriasis, because there was absolutely no itching or inflammation. Not due to sun damage, because I spent very little time in the sun. Not due to harsh soaps, because I use hypoallergenic soap with aloe in it. Not due to overbathing, because I shower only once a week (a shower being a complex exercise taking up about an hour from beginning to end). Alleviated only fr a moment by…
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