How do you keep from rubbing your skin? I apply the cream at night and try to get some sleep. It is almost impossible. I sleep about 2 hours each night. The itch is almost unbearable. I feel like I am going insane. I would stop the treatment now except I read somewhere on the Internet from a Dr that if you being treatment with efudex and then do not complete the treatment the cancer will absorb back into the body and affect other areas in your body and not just your skin and that it is more dangerous to begin and then stop treatment than to just never begin treatment. I wish my Dr had given me a chemical peel instead. It may be just as painful and just as red in the end but I can barely take the first week and I have two weeks remaining to apply this cream. I rub my chest with my finger tips and then it begins oozing and I rub it with a paper towel with an ice cube in it and I am afraid it takes the cream off and will take longer to complete the treatment. I try not to touch it but it is impossible. I try to keep busy during the day with a fan blowing on my chest at work but in the afternoons and this first weekend I am continuously itching profusely. My sister cried because she can't stand to see me like this. I just hope I can complete the treatment. I will be so proud of myself. I am glad I found this message board and I hope everyone will continue to write about how they are doing so I can see there is someone else going through this misery as well as myself.
I am only on day 7 and my chest is completely covered with red spots and bumps. The ones that came up first have already eroded and are turning dark and feel better. The bright red spots and bumps are amazingly itchy.
Good luck to everyone having to endure this treatment.