“The skin is so severe, it’s on my face, it’s on my chest, it’s on my back, it’s on my neck – it’s horrendous'
A 26-year-old man has been left covered in red rashes that feel like “chemical burns” and needing the toilet up to 30 times a day after what he thought was food poisoning turned out to be an incurable disease.
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Symptoms can include severe diarrhoea, dehydration, feeling exhausted, bleeding from the anus and rapidly losing weight without trying. The skin condition, which doctors suspect is linked to Joe’s steroid treatment, has also affected his mental health.“I couldn’t even open or close my eyes because the skin around my eyelids was so sore and swollen. You shouldn’t care about what other people think but it just puts so much stress on you and anxiety.”