by Nina Ajdin There was a morning recently when I woke up and couldn’t open my eyes properly. Not tired. Not groggy. Actually couldn’t open them. The skin around them had tightened overnight, crusted, swollen, the kind of thing that makes you understand, viscerally, what it means to be trapped inside your own body. I…
What twelve years of TSW taught me about healing, and myself by Nina Twelve years is a long time to be at war with yourself. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing. I thought I was healing. I thought I was fighting for my health, my skin, my life back, and I was, in…
let’s start with the basics, even though TSW is anything but “basic”. TSW stands for Topical Steroid Withdrawal. but that term doesn’t even come close to capturing what it actually is. It is one of the very reasons I struggle to write about it. TSW is a living hell. Those of you who have gone…
