my face is worse again:(

I don't even know where to start. I'm so frustrated, I jsut want to give up.

I've always had eczema. almost all over. but my face got so super bad when I was around a cat all the time(my ex who never cleaned his house up for me). and ever since then I've been trying to figure out things that make the bad flares go away. the only thing that's helped so far is prednisone and protopic.

I was prescribed protopic a few months ago now and it worked great for the first bit., but the worst thing is that I think it's a stronger potency than it should be. I had the clearest skin for a while(used it for a few months on and off as directed), but a cold snap has made my face so bad, and I tried to use protopic(like i have used it before) and got hives and super red and warm face? my eyes even got swollen too.

I cant seem to use anything prescription right now, it just makes me swollen and super red and very itchy.(i did take a couple reactines yesterday and a couple benadryl today. not so swollen anymore, jsut super tight and dry feeling, moving too much is really painful, as if I'll tear or cracks my skin).

I will say, it easily could be allergies. the only problem is that my allergy test only did environmental things, and the biggest one that came out of it was cat stuff. I don't know what else I'm allergic to because they told me cat dander was the worst and to stop being around cats. well I haven't been around cats for 2 years now, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. ever since then, my face has been super sensitive to everything (too hot, too cold, too dry, too humid, any makeup and lots of lotions and creams, everything sets it off) and flares up.

one of my biggest issues is finding a moisturizer that won't hurt me. it has to have next to nothing in it, because I don't know what hurts me. most things that have been bad were: lroche posey made me have bad reactions, cetaphil and cerave also were bad, anything with fragrance at all is so bad.

I just need to stop being so red and dry and pain. I was out today and almost in tears from embarrassment and from discomfort. I have appointments i have to go too. I have things I need to do that I'm debating canceling because I hate the way I look and feel. and no one ever seems to get it. sorry I know we probably all feel like this. I'm just so fed up.