Thread: Hypnotherapy/Eczema

Hello

Just wondering if any of you have had any experience of hypnotherapy.
I am at my wits end trying to stop myself scratching my legs, and causing my eczema not to heal properly and look horrible.

I am hopefully going back to Drs tomorrow if I can get an appointment for medical advice , but I know the main cause is me scratching and making it worse. The scratching is something which I feel has come behavioural, (years rather than weeks) as a reaction if I feel stressed, worried, or anxious. I know I need to change the way I react to these situations but don't know how and wondering if something like hypnotherapy would be useful.

Thanks
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Definately worth giving alternative therapies a try, what have you got to lose? Although are you sure its not allergy-based - have you had allergy tests already?

TLCx

Yep, had it to stop smoking and not touched a fag in 5 years. In fact it is as if I have never smoked. Ignore all that toss you see on TV because it is nothing like that. You are fully aware of what you are doing at all times.

I do the scratching thing, I haven't tried anything to stop it really other than when I feel the need to scratch I twist my ring round and round my finger and it seems to help- strange eh?

My mum had it to stop smoking and didn't smoke for about a year. Then something terrible happened and she went back to it. She said it wasn't cos she craved it or anything, its just what she'd always done in times of stress so it felt "right". She really regrets it and is planning on going again.

Thanks all,

I'm off to Drs wednesday, so will see what they say about the medical side of it.

The ring thing DC sounds like a good distraction type thing, I have tried to do something myself like that, but it's not worked. This is why I think I need a bit of professional help.

Mr S said the other night about hypnotherapy as it's driving him mad too. So I'm going to have a look into that.

try an elastic band on your wrist, whenever you get the urge to scratch, snap the band quite firmly against your wrist

Originally Posted by bigbird67

try an elastic band on your wrist, whenever you get the urge to scratch, snap the band quite firmly against your wrist

Funny, I had forgotten about that one, my GP suggested this when I was about 11 and was in the itching-scratching-bleeding-weeping cycle. It did not stop me scratching but out-ed my rubber/latex allergy lols. Further allergy tests (paid for privately as it was the early-80s) showed that I was allergic to the lanolin which my GP had prescribed and my mum religiously covered me in every night. I was also on some vile steroid/hormone tablets which I am convinced caused all my health and depression problems when I was a teenager. I changed GP as soon as I hit 16, and you can all probably understand why.

I just think that sometimes with excema GPS get a bit blinkered into prescribing creams etc., when alternative medicine might help, I wish I had tried it when I was younger.

Is this thread making anyone else feel itchy?

TLC x

My SiL has excema it has taken her years to control, she stopped using the steroid creams as they were eating away at the skin. She also opted for private allergy testing, she is allergic to everything! Diet consists of lamb, carrots and hardly anything else.

My baby son had excema behind his knees as a baby, potty training cured it, pee running down his legs when he wet himself seemed to kill off the excema!

Ok, I am a qualified Hypnotherapist for my sins, and yes you could certainly get some help with the treatment to stop the scratching if it's habitual rather than being driven mad by and itch... it won't take the itch away but it could help with the habit breaking, and even helping to ignore the itching.

PM me if you want any advice, if you live near enough I'm quite happy to give you a few sessions for nothing to see how you get on with it.

FPD

Quick update

Went to Drs and came out with a selection of pills and creams, so hoping the skin will clear up.
Drs didn't really listen to my concerns that I couldn't stop scratching because of my behaviour.

I went for a hypnotherapy session and the therapist looked at my scratching from a completely different perspective.
It was a really amazing experience.

So far I have not scratched since attending and the medication is helping clear the skin.