Efudex Skin Cancer Treatment: Efudex Pictures and Journals

Since I am doing a three-week course of two-a-day applications of Efudex…tonight’s aplication marks the halfway point of the creme. Twenty-one down, twenty-one to go.

I am glad for that, because it has become an unpleasant process, applying the creme. It doesn’t burn, but it does irritate the raw skin. It is not soothing.

The reason I say “sort of halfway” is that of course the effects of the cream lag behind by about a week. So, the cream is half done but the overall experience is definitely not at the halfway point yet. (My understanding is that the redness/rawness/etc. does not beging to improve until about a week after the cream is stopped.) 

I had more itching today, on my arms, plus a little itching on parts of my neck.

My skin continues to worsen. It is difficult to drive, because I cannot turn my head without some pain, due to the dryness and tightness of the skin on the sides and back of my neck.

Still…I think the words “unpleasant” and “uncomfortable” are accurate…if I said I was “suffering,” while literally true, I think that would be an overstatement at this point. There is plenty of time for suffering later.