Has anyone else been given Locoid cream?
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I was told I had LS about five years ago and prescribed Locoid cream to use once a day every day for 8 weeks and then after a follow up appointment, told to use it as and when required.
I have never come across anybody else who has been prescribed this cream for LS. Also I have never had any follow up appointment.
Sex is a long and distant memory because it is just too painful and I find it all very depressing. I suffer from underactive thyroid and am also post menopause.
I didn't think I would have to give up sex completely in my mid-fifties. It was only a few years before that I had a hysterectomy due to large fibroids.
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lauren33630 Lodge
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Anyway to answer your question I was given locoid cream as my first steroid, daily for 4 weeks, then alternate days for a month then twice a week. It seemed to be fine til I went down to alternate days and the first week I had my second worst flare up to date. My skin is so broken and sore that I am miserable.
Have you found the cream makes a difference? Are you using any other treatments to cope?
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When I was first told I had LS (it was diagnosed purely by sight, not the formal test where they do a biopsy) I was told to use the Locoid cream once a day for 8 weeks, which I did at bedtime.
I then went back for a follow up and it was much better, so then I was told to use it just when I get a flare up, which is what I do. It has helped a lot, but not with the atrophy, although undoubtedly some of that is down to menopause as well.
I was just curious because I have never heard of anyone else being prescribed with this particular steriod cream.
It may be worth you trying the YES lubricants as they are very good and some people do find they help with LS - the water based one is available on prescription.
I do hope you can get this under control, keep pestering your GP/gynae.
lauren33630 Lodge
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Thanks for he feedback regarding locoid because I was worrying it may not be the best thing for LS. I will see how I go with it for a little longer.
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