Healing BXO Naturally

After developing an apparent sensitivity to Perrin Creme Complete, I decided I would once again try my luck with it. A couple of weeks back, I tried applying a relatively small amount to my glans only. I only applied it once. Sure enough, within about a day, my surrounding skin was itching. It seems to be more of a problem on the inner foreskin than anywhere else, but the fact I was feeling the itching on an area I didn't even apply the creme suggested my sensitivity was here to stay. I was just about to declare myself no longer tolerant of Creme Complete, when I discovered an almighty peel happening. Just as it had done in the past, the Creme Complete created not just an itching sensation, but later, peeling. This is a more predictable treatment than Comfrey, which seems to be 50/50, and very much dependent on how recently I have last peeled as to whether it will happen again. I decided I would try it in VERY MINUTE amounts. So minute, in fact, that you almost can't see

I've been experimenting a bit lately, and thought I'd share the results on here. As you know, I'm a big fan of using Comfrey for treatment of BXO, as I think it's a great healer and does a good job of promoting peeling. The way I use it is to dry the leaves, break them, then make a very strong infusion in boiling water. It's just like making tea, only I then boil off a considerable amount of the liquid, leaving mostly concentrated extract. I then freeze this extract so it doesn't spoil, and can be applied easily by rubbing ice onto my fingers, then applying the liquid to the BXO areas. But there's a problem. While it coats the skin, it also rubs off in the places where the foreskin doesn't cover the glans, because it is in contact with my underwear. So I've noticed my BXO is healing a lot more on the areas closer to my body. I came up with a twist on the application of Comfrey, and have been observing how it develops. I apply the Comfrey extract

Regular visitors to this blog will have noticed that my post frequency has substantially reduced. This isn't because I don't care, but because I don't really have anything new to talk about. There's only so many times I can say "I'm still improving using the treatments I've been discussing over the past few years" before realising I've said what I need to. I would still like to share posts about others who have made groundbreaking discoveries about how to treat BXO, but they just don't seem to exist. That leaves me. Little old me... to serve what feels like the entire world's population of BXO-suffering men, with what is apparently the only regularly updated natural BXO treatment resource on the web today. The web is full of pages discussing various herbs, or pages talking about Lichen Sclerosus and which herbs may be beneficial, but there's no accountability there. There's no "here's how to use this herb, here's what

Many of the treatments I've tried, discussed here, or read about online will cause a reaction from the body. Usually, this comes in the form of peeling, but some treatments will cause inflammation, then peeling when treatment is stopped. But as you probably know from wound healing after sunburn or cuts, peeling only happens once, or a handful of times, before the wound moves to the next phase. I wonder whether the same is what's at play when it comes to BXO? When I began treating myself, I would often see peeling. I would get excited about it, and expect for it to continue indefinitely. Then when it stopped, I would get disappointed and think that I was stuck with this condition for life. Anyone who has dealt with treatment for BXO knows why I would have thought like this - it's crazily slow to treat, and for someone who felt like the first person in the world to even dream of doing anything other than treating the symptoms, I had no material to read to suggest otherwise.

Sometimes, you don't realise what you already have. This blog reminded me of that. I'm currently trying to launch another blog. It's not going so well. Between 0 and 11 views per day, despite the fact I'm doing a 30 day blog challenge, which is teaching me a lot about promoting my blog. The total number of views (it's been in place for just over a month) is 66 views. This blog, by comparison, is at about 11,300 views, and gets between 20-90 views each day. And all the promotion I've ever done is mentioning it once on a foreskin restoration forum, and once on a homepathy forum. Which means that most of the readers here are probably coming from Google, thanks to their own searches. I'm really quite humbled by all of this. To think there was once a time when I felt like a real victim of BXO. My progress was almost unnoticeable, and I didn't know whether the only way out would be to face a circumcision (making me the world's first person to undergo t

As you should all know by now, I'm stubborn and refuse to accept status quo when it comes to healing. For me, status quo is the place where I am healing, but incredibly slowly. Functionally speaking, I'm fully healed, but I still have white patches, which are healing but too slow for my liking. It's been a while since I tried a new treatment, so rather than doing the same thing and expecting a different result, I decided I'd try something else. I have coconut oil in my pantry already, so trialing it costs me nothing. I'm now using it every day. I figured it was worth trying something oily because it takes more to remove from the skin than Comfrey tea, and because I noticed something interesting of late - the part of my glans that seems to be healing faster is actually the part that is always covered in foreskin. I'm assuming this is the Comfrey at work here. Keeping the skin in contact with the healing compound all the time helps it heal, while having the skin

I wanted to give you all an update on the future of this blog. As you know, I set it up primarily as a diary of my own recovery journey. I did so in the hope that others might benefit from my experience, and wanted to create a resource that I myself wish had been around when I was at my lowest due to BXO. Those days are mostly behind me, and although I'm still far from the stage I'd like to be at, I'm much much less concerned about my BXO than I was when I set this blog up. So, you would tend to think that my motivation for posting here would be waning. But it's not, and here's why: This week, we reached 10,000 all-time views We are approaching 1000 views per month We have a total of 79 comments (including my own) Now, some of those views will have come from search engines, but as anyone hoping to launch a new blog or website knows, getting hit by search engines is a sure sign you are doing something right, because it means you will show up in response to pe

Any kind of ailment on or around our genitalia affects us deeply. There is such a stigma placed around STDs that, even when confronted by something that is not infectious, we still end up denigrating ourselves in much the same way as we would if we did have one. It's not just the connotations of being 'unhealthy' that get us down, it's also just the mere visual imperfections. It's bad enough having acne on your face, let alone an unattractive imperfection on our genitals. There's another side to BXO as well - the loss of physical function. In my case, my skin was so tightened and inflexible from it that most kinds of sexual activity were out of the question. I know this can be particularly problematic for women with Lichen Sclerosus, as they can experience very serious issues affecting their sexual capabilities. So here's BXO, which while not contagious, looks hideous and impacts on what we can do, sexually. To top it all off, the medical profession don

This morning I was pondering the question "So where does BXO come from?". We're told it's an autoimmune disease, perhaps genetic, and basically that's it. I'm not an immunologist, nor will I ever be. But I don't understand how someone can have an autoimmune disease that stops being active just because it is kept dry. I've read it countless times - keeping the area dry seems to help. I've asked on forums who finds that dryness helps their BXO heal, and the answers are never "not me". Plenty say yes. So why is an autoimmune disease only an autoimmune disease if the area is wet? Forgive my ignorance, but that feels like a bit of a weak argument, but I'll reserve judgment. Maybe there's a rational explanation. Another school of thought I've found in several places is that LS/BXO plaques sometimes occur around previously damaged skin. As I have pointed out earlier on, I was circumcised as an infant, and have since restored my fo

It's been almost a month since my last post, and I figured it was about time I put some pictures up here. I've been on and off with Creme Complete, but decided instead I'd switch to something a bit more soothing. Creme Complete is a superb product, don't get me wrong. But it doesn't seem to agree with me under certain conditions (when I'm overly tired, run down, or stressed, for instance). I decided rather than deal with itching on affected BXO areas, I'd make the transition to Comfrey. After all, it's summer here, so the nearby plant I found a year ago should be up again now anyway. I will do a separate post on how I use Comfrey at a later stage, but for now, here's some photos of how I'm looking today. Note the small amount of white skin just above my thumb in this picture. The inner foreskin used to be almost pure white. Today, it's almost the same colour as the skin on my fingers again. The area showing the most apparent