How Aminah Found Relief After Years of Severe Eczema

For most of her life, Aminah had lived with eczema. But over the past six months, her condition became unbearable.

Painful flare-ups spread across her face, neck, arms, and body. Her skin constantly burned and itched. Some mornings, her eyes were swollen shut from inflammation around her face. Sleep became nearly impossible, and daily life began to feel overwhelming.

“I got to the point where I couldn’t get up in the morning,” Aminah shared. “I wouldn’t go out to see friends or even go grocery shopping because I felt so down physically and mentally.”

As her symptoms worsened, Aminah and her mother searched desperately for answers. They visited dermatologists, allergists, and other specialists, hoping someone would finally identify the root cause of what was happening.

Instead, they encountered the same cycle of temporary solutions.

“Every doctor just prescribed steroids or antibiotics,” Aminah explained. “It would help for a short time, but then the eczema would come back even worse. Nobody was looking at what was causing it internally.”

One experience in particular left Aminah feeling discouraged. During a dermatology appointment, she says the doctor spent only a few minutes with her before recommending either lifelong injections or steroid treatments, without ever investigating the deeper issue.

“That’s when I realized these treatments were only masking symptoms,” she said. “I wanted someone to figure out why my body was reacting this way.”

That search ultimately led Aminah to Next Health.

From the very first consultation, the experience felt different.

“Dr. Habib immediately told me this was likely a gut issue,” Aminah recalled. “For the first time, I felt like someone was actually trying to understand what was happening inside my body instead of just treating the surface.”

Through comprehensive blood work and food intolerance testing, the Next Health team identified several underlying factors contributing to her eczema flare-ups, including vitamin deficiencies, food sensitivities, and significant gut dysfunction.

“The testing showed me that foods I was eating every week were making everything worse,” she said. “No other doctor had ever looked into that before.”

Aminah began a personalized treatment plan that included targeted supplements, probiotics, dietary adjustments, and weekly IV therapy designed to support healing from within.

The results came quickly.

“After my very first IV, I slept through the night for the first time in months,” she said.

Over the following weeks, her symptoms steadily improved. The inflammation on her face and body calmed dramatically. Her digestion improved. The bloating and acid reflux she had struggled with began to disappear. Even the brain fog that had affected her ability to work and study started lifting.

“Now on week four, I feel completely different than I did last month,” Aminah shared. “I have energy again. I can focus on school and work. I can go out with friends and spend time with my family again.”

For Aminah, one of the most meaningful parts of her experience was finally feeling heard.

“When we reviewed my lab results, Dr. Habib sat down with me and explained every single thing,” she said. “No other doctor had ever taken that kind of time with me before.”

Today, Aminah believes the biggest difference at Next Health is the focus on identifying and treating root causes rather than simply suppressing symptoms.

“I appreciate that the doctors here genuinely want to heal you from within,” she said. “Functional medicine helped me understand what was really going on inside my body and how to actually repair it.”

Looking back, Aminah says she finally feels hopeful again, something she had nearly lost during the worst of her health struggles.

“I truly believe coming to Next Health is worth it,” she said. “Instead of masking symptoms, they help your body heal naturally by finding the root cause. That changed everything for me.”

Aminah’s journey is a powerful reminder that real healing begins when care goes deeper than symptoms, and when patients are treated as whole people, not just conditions.