It has been a few years since my last Dupixent update, so I wanted to add to this. I am still on it and probably will for the rest of my life.
I am not going to say my skin is perfect, its not and it will never be. Eczema does not go away, but you can manage it. This medicine still does everything it promised when I first started injecting. My skin has impoved immensely, but every once in a while I get very small flare ups. I still use topical steriods for trouble areas or small flares. Compared to before I took it, my skin is completely different, I look normal. I can fuction and do things I did not think was possible espically when I had particulary bad flare ups.
I still dont like injecting myself and I am not sure if I will ever like it. I have always done a ton of injection medications, but this is the first self injectable I have done. Its not hard to do it, but sometimes it is unpleasant and I notice there are times when I try to do it at the last possible moment or I have missed doses avoiding it.
Which by the way it can be noticeable if you miss a couple of doses. I had a flare up on my arms that got kind of bad, my coworkers noticed it before I really did. Then I realized that I forgot my last shot and that I should probably do that eventually. I ended up doing it a week later and my skin took a few days to recover but it did recover rather quickly after my injection. This also applies to my asthma as well, when I first wrote this post, Dupixent was not approved for asthma treatment. Now it offically is which is cool, my allergist told me about how it helped with asthma way before it was appoved for it. But it does help to get new insurances to cover it since I have two of the conditions it treats.
Time to talk about skin texture! My skin in the beginning of this was very soft due to it basically being all new skin since before that I was basically covered in wounds. My skin is still soft now, however I feel like its different. My skin is not a fragile as it was back then, it is a lot more sturdy. My skin does not freak out with most products anymore and does not turn pink as easily as it used to. It is soft, sturdy and reliable. I have a lot of good skin days, way more than bad ones.
As for spots on my skin, i still got those! Apparently my skin in some areas have lost pigment kind of like a scar. I tore up my skin so bad that it could not replicate pigment in a few areas. Those being my spots on my hand and on my ankles and feet. My derm and allergist said as long as it does not spread there is not any reason to be concerned about it. Actually both of them were shocked that I did not have more scarring. I also have freckles that I did not have before on my arms but I am not sure if those are due to my skin being torn to shreds or somethings else. I get regular check ups at my derm and allergist and they do not seem concerned about it so it should be okay.
My eczema and asthma also are tied to my immune system and my allergies that devlop randomly because you know my body hates me. If you are anything like me, dupixent does block some of your immune response to allergens but it does not stop or decrease your allergies. Just found out I devloped an adult onset milk allergy. So thats fun. According to my allergist, “thats unsual” was something he said multiple times. So you may still devlop new allergies because you know bodies suck.
If anyone is on this medication and wants to talk about it or if they are new to it and have questions, feel free to reach out to me. You can message me on here. I also use Twitter a lot lately and you can fine me there as well, my username is Witchyvibes22.
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