Re: moisturizing

I understand when you say that nobody has tried moisturizing for a long period without removing the dead skin which accumulates but once you will try again you will realize again, like the rest of us just experienced this, that the scales are just unstuck from the lips and easily take off by their own.

Also, when the time comes and that you continue to apply something, just the fact of putting the balm on your scales just takes them off, even if you do it very carefully.
The morning, when you wake up, it's just like your lips are kind of desintegrated with some dead skin grains on the raw skin underneath, then just go away under water.

I would want to mean that if whatever cream must work, it should work whatever if we remove or not the dead skin which is just totally unstuck from the lips, shouldn't depend of some details like that, that's what I think.



About the causes of my EC, I think it's pretty odd to tell with certitude even if everyone has his hypothesis.

My EC started during Autumn 2009 when I noticed my lips began to peel, just in petals. What I know is that a few months before I was used to pick at the middle part of my top lip, ONLY, not the rest of the area which is actually concerned by EC.

So we could say that it started because of trauma to my lips, or look deeper saying my lips started to peel by their own beginning by the middle part of my top lip then spread to the rest, the fact of picking at my lips was just a collateral effect, a combination of circumstances, just like the applying of chapstick by the way, who knows.

Anyway, since my EC started, it has always remained, no matter how many things I've tried until now. Actually some guys posted everything, every disease which could be in relation with these peeling lips whereas we don't have any concrete symptom of it, it's a real muck up.