A 26-year-old ended up bedbound and covered in scabs from a skin condition that some doctors don't believe exists

  • egan Crome was debilitated by a condition called topical steroid withdrawal.
  • Topical steroid withdrawal can happen to some people who use steroid creams for conditions like eczema.
  • TSW is a poorly understood condition, meaning people like Crome turn to social media for help.

Megan Crome was lying in a makeshift bed on the couch at her mom's house in Essex, UK. It was spring 2021, and her face was swollen and covered in itchy, rock-hard scabs that she would scratch off in her sleep, re-opening the wounds and restarting the painful cycle.

Desperate for answers, Crome posted her symptoms to an eczema support group on Facebook where she was flooded with comments diagnosing protopic withdrawal and topical steroid withdrawal: her body was addicted to the creams that were supposed to be helping her.


Georgia, the Peach State, is out of peaches. Here’s why, and how locals are coping


Midsummer is the peak of juicy peach season in the state of Georgia. But, recently, the Peach Cobbler Factory in Atlanta ran out of peaches and was forced to pivot to… apple cobbler.
The Peach State lost more than 90% of this year’s crop after a February heat wave followed by two late-spring frosts. The triple-whammy destroyed peach varieties specifically bred to survive different weather scenarios and wildly inflated prices of the fruit. It also moved much of the local market — in some cases, quite unwillingly — to California peaches.


Country star Jason Aldean suffers "heat exhaustion" on stage

Gina Martinez
Updated Mon, July 17, 2023 at 8:52 AM EDT






Country singer Jason Aldean will reschedule a concert cut short after he suffered heat stroke on stage, a representative said. Aldean later said he was "doing fine" after rushing off stage Saturday with what he described as "a combination of dehydration and just heat exhaustion."

BREAKING: At least 3 dead after flash flooding Washington Crossing, Pa.

A very scary and sad situation Saturday after the torrential rain quickly flooded roads. One man told Ryan Hughes his wife was driving when all of a sudden the road filled with water and as people behind her tried to turn around their car flipped over.