Hello hi thanks for joining me tonight Dublin thank you so everybody my name is Ivonne and I’d like to introduce to you a very special person to me this is my cousin Dublin I have known her since I was a baby it’s it’s we’re linked we’re linked by our mothers our mothers or
Sisters from the island of palao which is next to Guam I was actually just there in October and it’s a good 26 hours away of flight time so it takes some time to get there she’s actually living in the future right now and I’m living the p in the past here in Northwest
Indiana uh right now it’s currently 8 o’clock at night and on a Tuesday night and Dublin tell us what time it is over there in palao it is 11 in the morning Wednesday wow so if I need a no future sure uh things happen and I’m just going
To give you a call then right yes so tell us some uh a little bit of information about you Dublin well my name is Dublin I live here in palao I have been in the Army for I was in the Army for 10 years and I
Joined the army at a very young age at 19 and here I am back in the island um did the 9 to5 job and was uh didn’t fit well with it so anyway I got out of that and came home and search for other ways to uh do this thing and actually I
Got my daughter to home school and prayed and seek the Lord on uh uh what to do and uh the Lord led me to designing for businesses and I do it for fun and I do it to help businesses so what I do is brand design in ail which
Is Ivan business is one of my very first customers anyway so um that I was in the Army I’ve I first trained in Fort Jackson South Carolina and went to Germany that’s Bamberg Germany and deployed to Iraq went to El Paso Texas awesome place out there but from
Another desert to another desert and to Fort Drum New York one of our coldest um base in the US Army and uh just as I said I’m back here in the island to summarize my personality I love God I love family I love country and I love
Freedom and so um what do I do for fun and kind of going over my head about some points Ian told me I have to touch on so I like learning anything I can get out my hand on I’ve learned how to sew I’ve learned how to cook I’ve learned
How to uh right now I’m learning how to garden in the process of learning uh recently I learned how to grow cucumber had a failure after my first success but uh there’s always those you have to fail in order to learn or there are always those um part of
Learning so um ivanne you let me know when I need to tell you about yes my story um so the reason why Dublin and I are talking tonight and I asked her if we can do an interview with her because she’s got a really good testimony to
Share with us dealing with aema and eale skincare and eczema kind of you know um they go together it’s the very reason why eale skin care started was my my baby at the time now he’s not a baby he’s eight years old uh he had eczema as
A baby and so uh formulating Relief really helped him with that and it’s always so good to know the other side of things of um when you’re dealing with eczema and topical steroids and and from somebody who who actually experienced it in their lives so we are here to talk to
Duin because she did experience using um having eczema and dealing with it and the struggles that she went through dealing with it and using topical steroids in her life um so could you please share with us Duplin about your experience using topical steroids yes so I I started off uh naive
Or an educated about the whole topical St steroid thing I did not know anything about topical steroid uh but one day I uh something started growing on my food and it was breaking out like eczema and I thought it was an infection I didn’t even know much about Eczema and so I
Went to look for like athlete food uh creams in over the counter okay right and none of those work I even tried the most common used one like cortisone that didn’t work any atlet food or um medication that would deal with infection uh nothing work I even Googled like um home
Remedies and so finally I went to uh the doctor here uh the local doctor and um she told me we’re going to give you this and um it’s called cortisol and uh oh you know how it is with these things and and that’s really
All she said and I just I nodded and I whatever she metant I was not interest at that time I was not interested to really hear what she’s saying other than the fact that I need a medicine that would work and get rid of this breakout
On my fot so that was the beginning of me using topical steroid the funny thing about taking that was when I went back I didn’t need to see the doctor to get it get a refill it was like a Non-Stop refill and so guess what that went on for three
Years it was like 2017 when I started and it went on for three years I would go to the counter and just can easily say I’m taking this can you please give me a refill no no need to see the doctor and I think a lot of people uh have this
Same same issue as I do or the same case where you can just easily get it without ever seeing a doctor anyway um you know uh it after a while happens with this is many people who will Who are in the same shoe that I was in will
Experience h a breakout somewhere else other than the spot that you treated and so you will try to also apply the topical steroid steroid on those areas like for me I start breaking out on my hands so I would do that and then on my toes and then you know what
Before you know it it start to come up on my neck right here and so what happens is your body start to ask for more you get addicted to it but what you we don’t realize it is causing more damage to the original issue which is act
In most of the time in your gut system there are many many um other areas that people say that it might be it might be sourced from other parts of your body uh but most of the time it’s a gut system issue topical story deal with the
Top issue so you will see more and more and that’s what I was experiencing um until and you know all along throughout those years I have known and understood the healing of the Lord which maybe I can stop and share share a verse all along I’ve stood on what the Lord says about
Healing am I able to share um my screen and I want to share this I can’t hear you sorry I had you on uh I muted me so I can hear you clearer now um yeah so there’s that arrow that says share screen do you see that option yes yes
Okay so I want to share this because this bring hope to many of us who face issues like this okay this is Isaiah 535 but he Jesus was PE for transgressions he was excuse me and he was crusted for our iniquities the chastisement that brought us peace
Circle was on him and by his wounds we were healed so that Circle right there very important Point uh peace is actually the Hebrew word Shalom now Shalom is more than just peace it means hold fullness in your spirit in your soul in your body that full full healing in your body and
So when I stood on that I understood that I had to receive uh healing from the Lord the same way that you anybody out there would receive salvation from the Lord is we have to come to a point where we receive our healing and from then I literally wrote it on my notebook
I said this day it was November 2020 2020 and I believe on that day the Lord start to work for me a healing because uh not long after that my mother remember it’s so clearly uh she came out of the house and and saw me and and I think I was I think
I mentioned something about the medicine like I needed to go and get another ref and she said why don’t you stop I think that’s enough and I when I heard that I in my heart I knew that that was the Lord using her mouth to talk to me to say stop taking this
Medicine and that was the first the very first step to Healing you know nothing nothing showed up for what like I would say a month everything looked normal like every yeah every like how how I’ve been as far as my body everything looked normal and then once that I think it was
Like three to four weeks about a month and then a breakout started happening and it was crazy um I think this is good for me to share my photo Ian huh yeah yeah I love that yeah it’s amazing how God just answers you when you least expect that you’re like wait what this
Is great yeah because because he knew he knew that I had to stop this first but I wasn’t smart enough to catch up with yeah wow the pictures yes he had use my mother mouth to stop all this because you know this this medicine is poison you guys it’s
Poison so uh this is just uh as you can see it’s a e week uh Pro the whole process was not eight week I just captured a eight week within this big process of healing so I’m not saying it last eight weeks it can last shorter it can last longer but
The body is so beautifully designed by the Lord to rejuvenate itself and to heal itself now how much more if you would stand on the word of God also on top of that and there’s like a powerful healing flowing through your body but the body in itself knows has the code that God
Put in there to re rejuvenate itself and reheal itself if only you would start with stopping because this looks horrible right here but this is actually the healing process and and what this is you look at day one and it looks absolutely hor horrible just crazy and then as the weeks go by
Uh you will start to see it clear and uh I would get happy because it looks like oh finally it’s over but then we go back through that same cycle again and it continues on month after month after month month after month but I I really uh want to show
This not to discourage people but to say number one stop and number two Let the B healing then don’t don’t be discouraged because the cycle seem to repeat itself uh where I will show you another picture sorry sorry H I’m all over the place Nick I want to show you the Nick
Now also Ian what I want to say too because you have a you had a a son yes well you have a son you when he was so little the doctor tried to uh um prescribe him topical steroid and you right away off the bat stop that and you went into these
Things that this is a a big thing do not let your children put this on them or don’t put it on your children this is so bad but anyway this these are the what you call topical steroid withdrawal just like people with withdraw from like alcohol addiction or things like that
And one major issue the reason why this skin are reacting like the way they’re reacting and if I look if I would show you these images these are the areas that I put the cream on and the reason why that skin is the way it is is because um topical steroid
Will thin the skin so wherever you put on it thins that skin layer wow so it becomes very susceptible to uh scratching inflammation which is why you have itch that are bone deep it really hard to scratch you could scratch until you bleed and you still want to
Scratch uh this is why you get them to crack open and and just be open source is because they’re so the skin is so thin and it will take time to recover uh the reason why I really wanted to bring that scripture front and center is the biggest biggest challenge
Is more than just a skin issue that everybody will face in this if they want if they ever took face medicine the biggest challenge is the mental challenge many people go into depression and hopelessness because of this because how how long you took it and how much because this this kind of topical
Steroid uh ranges uh in those sets right and also how long you took it and how much you took it comes into consideration for example there are those that are not over the counter have you heard of cortisol yes they’re in almost you know Walgreens go go go to Walgreens or any
Walmart you can find them you don’t it’s in the health and beauty area you don’t need to get prescription for them uh choone hydroch chorizone things like that but they do contain C uh uh steroid it’s a short name for C corticoid uh they do contain a level of steroid
So and what’s wrong with that is it will deal with the itch but it will cause more damage to the original issue and add on skin Finning and twoo like we have to realize is that whatever we apply to our skin absorbs to our bloodstream and then
You’ve got every organ in your body that is getting attacked by all of this on top of it yes yes and that is it’s it’s sad it’s sad that this is happening in our world it’s sad that this is being prescribed to babies and babies are Stu with living
Like this for because you know parents aren’t educated about it or don’t know enough about it they just kind of believe what they hear and so their their babies are you know living this until they’re 18 19 20 and and on you know from babies until on and this is a
Sad you know it it’s it’s a world we live in that this is even allowed and it’s even okay yeah and even that’s the key is uh telling people and educating people and informing people cu no like didn’t know right I had no clue yeah it
Was it was just the Lord who saved me from three years of stupidity right yeah yeah and I I didn’t realize how harmful topical steroids were like at all until I found how much um there are people out there that are exposing it through social media because they are and to me
I listen to those people because they’re the ones that are experiencing it they’re the ones that are going through they’re the ones that are living with with it you know from baby until now they’re adults and so on and and they’re they’re exposing it which is which is
Great I love that that this is happening now so Dublin how long um did it take until the withdrawals faded away from the topical steroids to where your skin was starting to come back to how it you know should be I think it was kind of um up and down there were
Seasons especially into the second year that I would enjoy uh um you know no itch and not much breakout um as you can see I mean there’s absolutely nothing on my neck uh today there’s barely little bit it’s every now and then sensitivity on my finger but I think I start to really
Enjoy my life uh into the second year yeah and definitely more into the third year okay and now there’s there’s different uh it depends on the person and there’s so much to you know the thing even is um there’s barely any doctor that will will uh confess that topical steroid is bad much
Less provide advice on how to to heal naturally yeah and by heal naturally I mean without depending on topical steroid from your experience is from from what I see as I researched it as I looked at other people’s testimony yeah so a lot of of information Flo floating
Out there are mostly information as testimonies from individuals who walk through their own Seasons okay and and they’re very different because some people are like well I I stopped eating uh because you know because this has to do with like something I took messed up with not only thinning of my skin but
Because it’s cortisol cortisol it messed up with a natural hormone in my body called cortisol this is because cortisol as you get it from the doctor from the medicine counter is a what would you call a synthetic version of the natural cortisol in your body and because it’s synthetic uh it
Messed up with how my body is programmed to release that natural choso so I had to have time to to stop taking this medicine and allow my body to relearn how to produce its own hormones so I guess I said that too so in my case I had to watch out for
Stuff like coffee okay yeah because coffee really spikes my cortisol and just throws it off balance even through the night so the there are uh there are many things people do like what their diet or take supplement which I really don’t believe in taking supplement I maybe other people do
But and you probably don’t either Ian I don’t know I think you know you the way God created fruits and vegetables the way they’re supposed to be grown not yeah now can you make your screen bigger so I can see you better um screen yeah or back to the normal screen
Screen so I can see you better so I guess too my question is so basically somebody who’s um winging off of steroids because I feel like it could get a little bit of like there could be confusion right so somebody who just gets off of steroids for example and now
Wants to try a new natural product to see if it works on their skin like do they expect to get immediate like feel like there should be results using that um natural remedy or it’s like they have to flush this out of their system they have to go through that transition of
Topical steroid withdrawals and then you know it’s a process before you start being like okay you know let me use a natural product or use a natural product in the meantime and not just expect like all of a sudden you know you’re like oh well I’m going through topical steroid
Withdrawals and I’m using this product and I’m I’m waiting for it to to work within a month or two months or three months yeah I I think that’s what I initially started off thinking that it will be over within two weeks yeah and that was discouraging for me when I
Learned that it went beyond two weeks into three weeks and then four weeks and then even a month and then I was wondering when will I see the light at the end of the tunnel but it’s so important to flush all that out of the system and then
Number two to get all of the the flow of hormones and chemicals back to normal and then to give time to your skin to heal okay I forgot how long does it take for one layer of skin and you probably know this even to to fully uh renew
Itself and it’s it’s not uh I think it was like six six weeks or something like that probably even longer but it’s unrealistic to think that you could just uh slap um some natural ointment on it and it heals within a matter of week or two weeks it’s unrealistic it
Took like for take me for example I took three years to my body wow okay I took that long period of time to poison my body body on a continuous daily basis so all the more reason for me to say just stop don’t do it if you’re thinking
About it and if you have started it stop because the more the longer that period of time if you took it for one year if it took it for two years three years the longer it will take for the body to recover okay yeah that makes sense and
So what did you what were your changes like what did you you change exactly like what and what did you use to help you through the process I know God was a big influence in your life um getting rid of coffee is there anything else that you could
Share um yes the Lord is the influence that brought me to this uh in every step of the way you know when we invite him to to come in uh every step of the way we’re not doing it alone he is the one saying you know take this step take that
Step all of that and throughout the whole season um but I I think Ian it’s it’s different for everyone because I’ve seen people who said I I ate everything I wanted to eat you know I’m not um I’m not gonna have a diet and the reason why
I keep going to diet is you become so sensitive to food I mean there were points where I was like H I’m actually should I even eat food and you know what early on in in in 20 21 early on I took a 21 day fast and
It really did help it really did help even my mother noticed a tremendous help fasting is one of uh God’s wonderful design to set your body into a healing mode and a lot of people are are discovering this they’re they’re discovering that you know in the
Fasting mode you start to to go into ketosis and you start to release um hormones that start to build stem cells and those stem cells are very important for healing process and so I took that 21 day fast and then after that there were Seasons where I did a a Monday fast
And even now I’m doing a Monday and that’s just for me this is for me I I like to fast but other people are like no I’m not I’m not doing any diet or whatever I’m eating chocolate as many chocolate as I want and I’m and they’re probably I’m
Drinking coffee and coffee like top things that are very toxic to somebody who maybe going through topical steroid withdrawal top on the list coffee alcohol sugar and gluten probably can see my finger they’re blurred my sorry we got 10 minutes left on our video so yes I
Love it those are on the top of the list so you know if if somebody’s uh um struggling with topical storage withdrawable you do your research and you do your your own choice choice and you look at your body and you see how your body respond because there are
People who just eat whatever they want and they gave their body time as long as they just didn’t go back to topical steroid and they did recover yeah but their process was very um painful right because of the breakout right now you make um it’s called I can I know Alana
Can pronounce it better than I am in the palan language with I had because it was my first language so likeu oil which is also called Manu oil and um Dublin here makes it she ships it to me from the island of palao it actually comes from
Like our family beach front property and so she makes this oil so it’s as pure as it can be and she ships it to me and I put it in a product called relief and we grew up using um thas oil when we would get bug bites or you know our grandma
And our moms would put it on our bodies and things like that so it’s a a great oil um for wound healing and all sorts of like muscle aches and um and it has helped my son with his eczema and as well as I’m sure
That is you use that with on your skin I use it on my face because I always like the way my face when I put it on my face I’m like oh I love this it’s like making my face look good younger flawless you know since you’re talking about like
Products like that right I think two two important thing that um becomes very important for people who deal with like eczema like I I was uh whether it’s due to topical steroid or something that’s leading you to search for topical steroid ointment two things that we really need is uh one not introd
Producing toxins into the body right because the the very uh re probably most of the time the reason why you’re breaking out is because of toxins yep and that’s in makeup I mean you’re you’re talking about like the term fragrance what what does fragrance mean and and I’m it it blows my mind
Because people spray it all over their body it’s like fragrance can mean 3,000 ingredients you don’t know doesn’t have to be disclosed you can literally look that up FDA writes it out no problem as long as it’s right the term fragrance just because of that steroid is the wrong choice because steroid is
100% toxic and you’ve seen my images and so that’s number one thing that uh anybody would be concerned with is toxins get it out of the body and don’t reintroduce any more of it into the body and then number two Comfort because I’m itching and I’m hurting because my you
Know my skin is so something that will soothe and comfort right yeah and then healing a a process and a time for healing and I think that’s why like I even I even tell like this one lady I saw at the market I said just use coconut oil because there’s soothing there’s a
Soothing um uh feeling to that and at the same time there are some healing ingredients because your your ingredients are all natural all soothing and all healing and but the problem is you know a lot of people don’t like the smell of coconut oil yeah and then another I
Think a a big one to it to is praying really praying from the moment because it when we we get to that point when we have I mean I’ve dealt with Poison Ivy and I’m I start thinking like wow is this what people go through when they
Have ecmia in a daily basis is what I start thinking with poison ivy I mean think about having that for the rest of your life or like what feels like the rest of your life like it you start you feel deep the things the negative thoughts that were constant I
Mean we think about negative thoughts on a daily basis regardless but like to go through something like that and then the negative talks the negative thoughts that come through the minds so I feel like um a big most important part about it is really praying and asking God for
Help to get rid of those thoughts and help him sooe the mind and to help sooe the skin at the same time because whatever we think about affects our emotions affects our entire body definitely and and that’s why I really wanted to bring that Bible verse up
Front because it’s simple it’s to the point it’s easy to M and just anybody who would take that word right off the bat all of those what you call negative notes all of those uh harassment in your mind leaves because there’s power in the word right that word will deal with also
Those negative bombardments because you anybody who goes through topical steroid with r you it’s it’s a bombardment on your mind yes you’re right IA yeah it’s very challenging in the mind yep it is anything else you want to the word of God is a sword yeah it will deal with the Enemy yes
Yes and putting him at the top of everything is everything like there’s there’s no other way life is hard enough as it is and without him there oh my goodness it’s going to be so much harder so just put you know put them there put
Him at the top ask him for everything I love the whole crying out for help cry out for help like we were just learning about this our pastor is really great about he was talking about like cry out to him for help for everything because you you know sometimes it it’s like
We’ve I remember before um I would always think like yeah I don’t want to pray like I I think other people could pray you know like I deserve it more than they have their problems are bigger than my problems you know like and it’s like no he wants to hear all of our
Problems whether they’re this small you feel like or this big or whatever and that is part of just like because he wants us to rely on him for everything so crying out for help he wants us to do that because how is he going to help us
If we’re not crying out for help right trust in the Lord with all your heart then all of your ways acknowledging so we will end our video with that thank you so much duin for taking your time and doing this interview with us I know it’s going to
Help so many it has helped me and I’m so grateful and so thankful for this opportunity to to chat with you and also thank you for our AG gafe shirt yay I’m wearing the same duin did this logo go for our ministry and she’s like I’m like so can
You send the bill and she’s like don’t worry about it I’m like oh my goodness we love you so thank you for blessing us with that I mean like bless to bless yes you’re so sweet um and so thank you all so much for watching and don’t you
Forget to pray whether it’s this small this small or this small or this small they’re all the same or this pray about everything if you um need any help and need any uh with anything don’t hesitate to reach out to Dublin and I because guess what you are not alone in
This if you’re dealing with eczema or psoriasis you’re not alone in this there are so many that have been through this too and they’ve got resources out there to help you with it and how to cope with it so don’t feel like you’re alone in this because you’re
Not love you duin thank you and I love for watching and have bye everybody