It's All About the ITCH!
I've had three surgeries, five biopsies, and numerous fluorouracil episodes for multiple basal cell carcinomas. Frankly, I don't mind all the doctor visits, the surgeries, the oozing and bleeding, the slow-to-heal scarring, nor even my allergy to adhesives which makes bandaging a real hassle or impossibility.
The fluorouracil treatment itch
But what absolutely drives me up the wall is the horrible, tormenting ITCH that accompanies all the treatments, especially on my neck and upper chest. There is no relief and it goes on - unrelenting - for weeks. It ruins life! It even made me cut short my latest fluorouracil treatment for three BCCs on my upper chest after four and a half weeks (it was supposed to be for six full weeks). I just couldn't take it any longer.
This is a side effect that dermatological medicine MUST solve in order to preserve their patients' sanity (and achieve full compliance with the treatment regimes). Topical anesthetics, nerve blocks, induced coma, whatever works!!
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