Hello, it is over 10 weeks since I last posted and I can see there has been other posts since with similar suffering. So I have been on Clobetasol for over 10 weeks now for really bad itchiness (mainly between my labia). During this time and going back as far as lockdown 1, I was also getting really bloated and so cut out wheat as made this connection. 6 weeks into the steroid cream which I found was only then just starting to work a little, I decided to have a full English brekkie and had 2 doorstep slices of white toast. Within hours, I had a major itchy flare-up lasting 72 hours and slowly the penny dropped - I thought what have I done differently? I did use Doctor Google and found a website for Celiacs and a whole thread on Dermatitus Herpitiformis which is gluten triggered dermatitus. I found a whole group of poor suffering people (men and women) who suffer this only in the genital area. I have since cut out gluten from my diet and coupled with the steroid cream which I can now start to reduce, I would say I have about 75%+ improvement. I am wearing jeans
for the first times in ages. Last week I thought I would have sausages, again I had an itchy flare-up because of the wheat in them. More than 80% of itchy fu fus are dermatology related not gynae. The timing is usually around menopause because we need estrogen to break down the wheat. So this is why itchiness is often treated with HRT products first and foremost which TBH we should have anyway to keep your fu fu healthy. If anyone is suffering with this, just try cutting out gluten for a week and if it is that, I guarantee the improvement is almost instant.
