Painful Red Bumps
This is a pic of the mysterious alien red bumps that appeared the summer of 2010 and had the doctors stumped. I then discovered at age 55 that my 40+ cumulative years of steroid cream on my hands had me hooked. This was actually the third time in my life that I had a rebound effect but the other two were on my face at ages 13 and 23. I used less often during the summer and the outbreaks were in early fall both times. This one was later August which again would explain it as I cut back on using the steroid cream in summer months.
The previous facial flares looked and felt like a hot lava volcano eruption and calmed down after a few weeks. At that time, I had no idea what a rebound was so it must have stopped after I used the cream on my hands again. I never used it on my face but a few times later in life but that does not matter, the skin is one organ and the steroid penetrates the blood vessels and can affect any and all parts of the body.
The red bumps came back several times throughout my journey along with various other alien attacks on my body that had my doctor scratching her head until she actually read the reports about red skin syndrome and spoke on the phone with California derm, Dr. Marvin Rapaport who studied steroid induced eczema or red skin syndrome in depth. His reports are on the ITSAN.org website.