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My health provider was killing me!

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I am not a rare case, in fact, I would bet that there are thousands of fair skinned people that already deal with sun issues, that were prescribed the same high blood pressure medicine I was prescribed. After months of my skin turning red every day on my hands, neck, face, and especially around the eyes, I gave up and went to my health provider assigned doctor.  She was the one that had prescribed the blood pressure medicine to me. She gave me the once-over, asked if I had changed soaps, or laundry detergent, and when the answers were all no, she gave up on the cause and prescribed an ointment for the dry, flaking, chaffed skin. Then she sent me to the optometrist because my eyes would not stop watering, another wonderful thing going on that they couldn't figure out. He asked if I had changed anything in my life, and again I answered no. The Optoguy prescribed two hundred dollar eye drops and warned me not to overuse them, or I could get cataracts. ...