Day 12 and I was up from 4 to 6 AM last night (11-12) slathering my itchy, crawly face with Vaseline and wondering how I can keep this up for 3 more days including today. This is awful. And to think I started off thinking this wouldn't be so bad because I was a "late-bloomer". The polka dots didn't start until after a week, and initially they weren't so bad. I noticed some of the dots are 'eroding' which is good according to the site. I'm so grateful now my docs gave me the Rx for a total of 14 days on my face. They gave me 3 weeks for neck, upper chest, arms and back. I'm going to do my back last. I really don't think the rest of me will be that bad because whenever I went scuba diving I wore skins that covered me from my ankles to wrists to top of neck. I suspect soaking in salt water for the dive and then bobbing in the water for the boat is what did my face and upper neck in. But we'll see. There was no sun blocker when I was a child and I did have 1 severe sunburn on my shoulders that I remember. I'm 62.
I have a friend in Italy who asks: "Why don't you just wait for skin cancer to show and then get it cut out?" Anybody have an answer?