Lifelong skin problems

I am 65 and was born with red raw weeping skin and wrapped in bandages.  This improved until early teens when my skin became very dry and flaky all over.  I was prescribed by GP an ointment based on coal tar which turned my skin yellow and a white ointment for my scalp based on sulphur which smelt terrible.  Told it was eczema. In my late teens my skin improved especially in the summer but stayed dry and flaky.  Getting divorced and with a 2 year old and moving home my skin flared up again, whole body covered with itchy red spots and told it was psoriasis and was given a coal tar paste.  After 6 months the psoriasis disappeared completely on its own (just due to stress?).  In the 1990's had many family problems (mother had serious stroke, father died, son diagnosed with schizophenia, sister had breakdown due to bipolar),and I was trying to work p/t and look after husband and 2 other daughters.  Psoriasis began again in places, and skin started splitting down below.  I also had endless episodes of thrush.  Was referred to gynae for skin splitting and was told it was psoriasis and it had thinned the skin at base of vagina.  Various creams did not work so he suggested a "partial Fenton's procedure" which involves taking out the piece of troublesome skin.  I agreed but on the day of the procedure another gynae was doing the op.  We went ahead but afterwards I could hardly walk and was in such pain.  This other gynae had done so much surgery I looked like a piece of raw beef tied up ready for roasting.  When it started to heal I ended up with 2 holes instead of one.  My husband rang the gynae and he got me in at once and sorted it out and apologised sayin the other gynae had done "too much surgery".  (didn't he bother to read the notes?).  I suppose I could have sued.  Skin no longer splits but is still sore and now the red patches inside the vulva are itchy and sore.  I eventually saw a gynae and dermatologist together who said the skin problems down below are lichen planus and what I always thought was eczema is in fact a condition called ichythosis.  Since the skin is the largest organ in the body, you would think there would be more knowledge and research on the conditions we all suffer with.  I'm on Bisoprolol and Amlodipine for high blood pressure and the skin has worsened especially since starting Amlodipine - anyone else had this?

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