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Alternating Treatments

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.

Well... that was unexpected

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