The body can beat BXO
For a little while, I've known this but today, I clicked onto the significance of it.
BXO skin is prone to cracking, and when it gets injured, can take a long time to heal. I put this down to the physical stresses that are placed on the wound due to the lack of elasticity in the surrounding area. Around the edges of the wound, where wounds normally heal first, the tight BXO skin gets pulled on the most, resulting in undoing a lot of the healing. I've had some wounds where the only way to let them heal is to abstain from any kind of sexual activity until they did. My most recent one, I abstained for 6 days and it healed, but before that, it had taken over 4 weeks and still hadn't healed.
When you get these kinds of wounds, something interesting happens. They heal, but they heal as much more 'normal' looking skin, that is wrinkled and has elasticity that the BXO skin doesn't. I have many areas like this. I once thought the problem was that the red was either scarring or post inflammatory hyperpigmentation or a delayed healing. In fact, what it was was normal healthy skin.
Today, I clicked onto the importance of this. (No, I'm not about to go deliberately harming myself, so don't worry). We like to think of drugs and treatments as being 'healing' to us. In fact, our bodies do the healing. I'm not a doctor so don't know this for sure, but I believe that what the treatments do is make it difficult for the underlying disease to survive, allowing the body's defence mechanism to heal the affected area. The other thing treatments do is nourish us, providing our body with fuel (nutrients) to heal itself. Even antibiotics, I believe, work not by killing bacteria directly but by starving the bacteria.
So our bodies heal themselves. I think this is well known. So here's the kicker. If BXO is supposedly a disease without cure, why then is it that when the skin undergoes trauma and heals, the BXO no longer comes back in that area? If BXO was a permanent thing, would you not expect the skin to grow back as BXO skin? But no. When skin is forced to reconstruct itself from the lower layers due to injury, it comes back as normal tissue.
I believe this proves that the body CAN actually rid itself of BXO, and we just need to create the right environment for it to do so.
Often, medical sites report that steroids may alleviate the symptoms of BXO, but that the skin will be permanently scarred. The whole notion of classifying BXO skin as 'scarred' has never sat well with me. Scars are permanent. Skin affected by BXO clearly isn't, as given the right circumstances (and so far, the only environment I've found to make this happen is post-injury) the body will produce normal skin where BXO once was.
The other revelation I had today was, I made my first visible wound a year and a half ago when I got an infection on the side of my foreskin. This area remains normal-coloured to this day. The fact that BXO hasn't crept back onto it in that time shows how slowly it progresses. It makes me think I've probably had BXO for much longer than 2 years, but more importantly for today, it shows I don't need to worry too much about it spreading.
BXO skin is prone to cracking, and when it gets injured, can take a long time to heal. I put this down to the physical stresses that are placed on the wound due to the lack of elasticity in the surrounding area. Around the edges of the wound, where wounds normally heal first, the tight BXO skin gets pulled on the most, resulting in undoing a lot of the healing. I've had some wounds where the only way to let them heal is to abstain from any kind of sexual activity until they did. My most recent one, I abstained for 6 days and it healed, but before that, it had taken over 4 weeks and still hadn't healed.
When you get these kinds of wounds, something interesting happens. They heal, but they heal as much more 'normal' looking skin, that is wrinkled and has elasticity that the BXO skin doesn't. I have many areas like this. I once thought the problem was that the red was either scarring or post inflammatory hyperpigmentation or a delayed healing. In fact, what it was was normal healthy skin.
Today, I clicked onto the importance of this. (No, I'm not about to go deliberately harming myself, so don't worry). We like to think of drugs and treatments as being 'healing' to us. In fact, our bodies do the healing. I'm not a doctor so don't know this for sure, but I believe that what the treatments do is make it difficult for the underlying disease to survive, allowing the body's defence mechanism to heal the affected area. The other thing treatments do is nourish us, providing our body with fuel (nutrients) to heal itself. Even antibiotics, I believe, work not by killing bacteria directly but by starving the bacteria.
So our bodies heal themselves. I think this is well known. So here's the kicker. If BXO is supposedly a disease without cure, why then is it that when the skin undergoes trauma and heals, the BXO no longer comes back in that area? If BXO was a permanent thing, would you not expect the skin to grow back as BXO skin? But no. When skin is forced to reconstruct itself from the lower layers due to injury, it comes back as normal tissue.
I believe this proves that the body CAN actually rid itself of BXO, and we just need to create the right environment for it to do so.
Often, medical sites report that steroids may alleviate the symptoms of BXO, but that the skin will be permanently scarred. The whole notion of classifying BXO skin as 'scarred' has never sat well with me. Scars are permanent. Skin affected by BXO clearly isn't, as given the right circumstances (and so far, the only environment I've found to make this happen is post-injury) the body will produce normal skin where BXO once was.
The other revelation I had today was, I made my first visible wound a year and a half ago when I got an infection on the side of my foreskin. This area remains normal-coloured to this day. The fact that BXO hasn't crept back onto it in that time shows how slowly it progresses. It makes me think I've probably had BXO for much longer than 2 years, but more importantly for today, it shows I don't need to worry too much about it spreading.
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