Healing BXO Naturally

Earlier I had been using moisturiser and trying to look after my skin, but I'm not sure it makes a great deal of difference. Maybe it would if I used it when the entire area was healed, but it's not. I'm at a tricky stage where some of my skin needs healing treatments, while some of my skin needs attacking treatments. It's difficult to balance them out. I've been using Tea Tree Oil again. I started for one reason, and one reason alone - I wanted it to burn. This might sound strange, but there's a reason. Recall me saying earlier that skin that has been wounded and heals seems to heal as normal, healthy skin. While the wound is painful and the inconvenient, what I end up with is BXO skin that heals back to normal in a fraction of the time it would normally take to heal back to the same stage. This is really annoying. I don't want to go cutting myself, and I'd be an idiot to do that given the track record of infections, but I pondered whether I could pro

A picture paints a thousand words, and today I decided I'd share with you the progress I have made on my BXO. First, here's a picture I took back at the beginning of the year. I didn't actually realise what the problem was, so it took me a good six months after taking this photo before I started treating it. A few things to note. Obviously, the BXO skin is very thick and white. That part is a no-brainer. But perhaps more alarming is how tight it is. Look at the width of my thumb and look at how the distance from the edge of the BXO skin to the base of my glans is roughly the same. Also, note the obvious indentation from the phimotic ring at the right.  Here's the identical shot after three months of nothing but natural treatments. Look at how the BXO skin has thinned down a lot, and has some more normal-looking dark patches of healthier skin. Most of those started out as small injuries, and as they healed, the normal skin gradually spread out as the BXO ski

I've had a bit of time to do research lately, and there's a few things I've been discovering. First is how much snake oil there is out there that someone supposedly thinks is the magical cure to LS. I've found everything from "put 100% organic cotton wool in your ears" to "use this frequency-generating therapy, and pick these exact frequencies for LS" to "it's the thyroid" to "it's liver congestion" to "it's an autoimmune disorder" to "it's hereditary" to "it's your diet; cut out dairy, high oxalate foods, sugar, alcohol, wheat, gluten, meat, eggs, or any other food that is edible" to "your immune system is compromised" to "your immune system is overactive". The annoying thing is that, for all I know, one or more could hold the key to my LS. But because there's so much white noise out there on the subject, I'm not about to keep spending money trying di

I've been on Clobetasol now for about 2.5 weeks, and the results are the same as at my last post. Consistent progress, but hardly lightning pace compared to the natural treatments I was using before. This says one of three things (perhaps a combination): The skin I am now targeting is the inner skin, which is much much slower to peel away, so although it appears slow, it would have been even slower without the Clob I'm among the group of people who doesn't really respond to Clobetasol treatment. No negative side-effects, but not massive progress either My skin was already recovering as quickly as the body would allow using the natural treatments, so throwing a more powerful medication at it just won't make anything happen any faster than was already happening I had thought that Clobetasol was the 'holy grail' of medicine when it came to treating BXO, but it turns out it is, for me at least, only a little bit better than what I had been using. This should