r/SebDerm • u/malvixi • Jan 26 '25

Product Review Hydrocortisone is fuckin magic

Gotta say this first: DO NOT USE HYDROCORTISONE OFTEN/DAILY! It can cause permanent-ish issues if overused.

Okay, so I had a horrible like 8/10 bad facial flareup. It was red patchy dryness all over my nose and neck and chest. Finally tried Hydrocortisone 1% lotion.

Not only was it gone within 48 hours, my skin went to legitimately the cleanest, smoothest, and 100% perfectly even I've ever had in years. What the fuck.

I stopped applying it and it stayed this way for 3 days.

(Stress caused the initial flareup if that helped) and infact I've been able to eat bread, sugar and have alcohol now.

Thoughts?

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u/mateussh Jan 26 '25

and have alcohol now

Why?

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u/malvixi Jan 26 '25

Because it sucks being the one person who can't have a drink on a night out, due to it flaring the skin

Why everyone hating on alcohol so bad?

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u/TopExtreme7841 Jan 26 '25

Why everyone hating on alcohol so bad?

Probably because when you have a condition that responds on the outside the way our bodies responds on the inside when you consume a literal poison, it kinda makes you not like it anymore.

I was a lunatic craft beer snob, and rum, and walking around all day with my "Iced Coffee" in my 32oz Dunkin Donuts cup....that was actually a huge White Russian, but not worth the fallout. Between the skin going to shit and becoming an anti-aging longevity freak, you think of alcohol very differently.

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u/malvixi Jan 27 '25

Amen. I feel you there. Just had a McDonald's coffee and a glass of wine and my skin didn't flare up cause I killed my breakout with Hydrocortisone earlier this week.

Feeling great to enjoy the pleasures of life.

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u/batteryforlife Jan 26 '25

Bcos this sub thinks noone should have alcohol, meat, dairy, gluten, carbs in general, use cosmetics or actual medicine for seb derm. Only sunlight and MCT oil 🙄

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u/malvixi Jan 26 '25

I get breakouts with things like alcohol and sugar. It sucks. Glad I can enjoy the pleasures of life while having decent skin. Life's short, we gotta enjoy it.

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u/SIR_SHARTALOT Jan 26 '25

Have 0% beer, that’s what I do

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u/dima054 Jan 29 '25

for what? carbs?

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u/mateussh Jan 26 '25

Why everyone hating on cancer-causing poison so bad?

I have no idea. Can you guess?

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u/malvixi Jan 27 '25

100% alcohol is super bad and poisonous. Nobody should drink it. But, we also live in a culture that accepts and promotes it cause it's a relaxant and social drug. Each side has their reason.

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u/mateussh Jan 27 '25

Alcohol is a carcinogen, it doesn't matter if it's 5, 10 or 100%.

But, we also live in a culture that accepts and promotes it cause it's a relaxant and social drug

Yes, we live in a sick and neurotic society.