In May last year after the most recent one of my Blues & Twoes A&E visits as a result of my heart playing up, I was eventually prescribed a whole host of additional medications including the new wonder drug Dapagliflozin which is for diabetes, but it turns out that it also appears to be working wonders for coronary patients as well!
Over the past few months I have noticed the condition of my skin has gone very steeply downhill, it has gone almost exceptionally dry and flaky and the condition of the skin on my feet has also shown some small pin point red blobs that are both saw and exceptionally irritable, I had also noted that some of my toe nails were going almost pure white.
Today I met for the very first time a locum GP at my health practice and she is the one, after first very closely examining me, decided that my problems were in the main some kind of fungal infection, she then checked thoroughly through all my many medications and then asked me how long I had been on Dapagliflozin.
It turns out that one of the many side effects of this new wonder drug is exactly what I have been experiencing, it can cause excessively dry skin, it can cause various types of fungal infections and it can also result in a patient passing far more water than they normally do.
So as of today, I have stopped taking this drug!