Skin Problems & Delusion: Any Connection?
[posted 10/1/98] Question: My mother has had a skin problem all her life. She’s 78. I’m 42 and for as long as I can remember, she has been using betnovate(?) cream with cortisone in it. She has been told she doesn’t have any sweat glands or what she does have, do not work. She has been very strange lately. The doctor has said she’s paranoid delusional. She recently had blood tests, and the results said that the cortisone level should be 450 (in whatever they measure it in). Hers is 750. Very high. She has to immediately stop with the creams but is concerned because she hasn’t found anything else that works. My question is: can having this amount of cortisone in her system, affect her enough to make her become paranoid? What can happen if she doesn’t stop the cream and how long can does it take to leave ones body? Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.
