Marina O: Lichen Planus

I am a twenty-seven-year-old, and about a year ago I went to a dermatologist because I had pus coming from my scalp, and it covered my head. I got a biopsy, they told me I had lichen planus, and that the only solution for me was to apply a strong medication with cortisone base.

So I do not trust doctors anymore, I have visited at least six and each one has given me their own therapy, mostly experimental treatments and none of them really useful.

In the meantime I have a bald patch in my head where hair will not grow again, and the illness is still advancing, without anyone being able to tell me how to stop it.

I am asking you to please help me understand what I can do, and whom to turn to, because I am not so sure that the doctors I have seen so far understand what the illness is really about.