Menopause and SKIN!!

Hi everyone. This is a bit lengthy, but I'm wondering if anyone has any info/advice at all for this..?
I'm one year into the menopause. Can never work out if I'm peri or actually 'out the other sidey'. All I know is for the past year my Eczema has EXPLODED with rage. At first I experienced hot moments (not sweats) and they were so extreme they'd wake me 2/3 times a night. 'Oh, it's the menopause' I thought. But the heat episodes started me scratching.
For the first 12yrs of my life, I suffered from Acute Atopic Eczema. My entire body was covered in it and I scratched constantly. Then puberty brought hormones...and I lived the next 40 years as a 'normal' person with normal skin. Now I assume I've lost that magical hormone, and I'm falling to bits. I've been on 3 types of HRT trying desperately to get that hormone back...but it's not working.
I'm itchy ALL the time. My back, my scalp, my arms, my legs, my ear holes...the skin around my vagina (it's hard scratching your vajay-jay). My skin has thinned and I'm breaking it much, much easier than I did as a child.
I wake up itchy and take ages to calm down, I scratch in my sleep and wake up raw. My hands get infected (weeping eczema) and I do the topical antibiotics, but my job is not one where I can wear gloves (which makes me itchy anyway!) and so, I get infected again. It took 4 months to get to see a Dermatologist who prescribed a raft of steroids which is at least stopping my face from swelling but nothing, nothing stops the itch. I did get a blood test last year (when this all started) and all the GP said was that they confirmed I was going through the menopause. It's not an allergy, it's not the type of washing powder I'm using, it's not mites or scabies, it's the bloody menopause. It's really only me that's realised it's the lack of hormone that's fired up my skin.
I feel this is it for me. I'm only 53 and I could be scratching for the rest of my life.
Has anyone suffered an increase in their Eczema while going through the menopause? Did it stop once it's over? I eat a Paleo diet (high protein/fat, no caffiene, no processed foods/no grains) and I'm slim. TIA for any thoughts. ...or sympathy. Hell, I'll take anything.