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hydrocortisone made eyelid change HELP PLEASE

Basically a doctor told me I had some sort of eczema on my eyelid and I was to use some hydrocortisone cream 1%. Of course being silly I decided to use it for two weeks and soon noticed my eyelid started to change... I stopped using the cream and went back to the doctor to which he then told me to just moisturise and it just by fine. My eyelid still wasn't okay though.... He then said it was a fungal infection and now my eye is perfectly fine with the whole red patches thing, HOWEVER my eyelid still isn't the same. It seems that the skin has lost it's elasticity and seems tight. I stopped using any creams for about a month now, and have been moisturising. Despite this, it still seems that my eyelid looks very different to the other one that the hydrocortisone wasn't used on... It seems as though the eyelid has become hollow, as if the fat has now been removed... Like the skin is paper thin? The overall eyelid where the hydrocortisone was placed seems to be thinner... I just wanted to know if this is at all reverisble?
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I've researched this and so many places have said that it is reversible... The doctor also said that because it's very minor it is reversible. I thought a small case of skin thinning (nothing drastic) would be reversible over time?
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The unfortunate part is that hydro-cortisone cream can do things like this...and there is no way to reverse it.

This cream should always be used as directed and for as long as directed...never more or longer.

Sorry.
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