look at the other post I just wrote. Wish you the best. I know this can be tough. http://www.curezone.org/forums/s2.asp?f=403&c=14&ob=v   [End]
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Hey, Sorry, I don’t check here that often anymore. When I mentioned that the probiotics made me feel better, I meant that they generally helped with digestion and energy. Do some research on the gut biome and I think you’ll find that probiotics are a safe and healthy addition to almost any lifestyle, whether through diet or supplements. Although I have my theories, I, like everyone else here, honestly have no idea what EC actually is. I am however very confident nowadays that it has at least in some degree a psychological element to it and very likely comes about as a side effect of ...
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First off, I’m sorry to hear that your struggling with this. I know how rough it can be. I am a big proponent of leave it alone. Click on my name to read my past posts about it. Two things I would say to try while you do it: 1) Try going gluten free for a min of 6 weeks and see if that has any effect. Once you get used to eating gluten free it is actually very easy to keep up. Longterm mentioned she thinks that may have played a role in her success. 2) Try Earth’s Pearl probiotics or some equivalent probiotic w/ a time release. I started using them after reading this threa ...
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Dude, read the entire rest of this thread before posting something like that. The OP was cool enough to write everything with pictures. Clown questions...   [End]
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You’re right, I shouldn’t have called it nonsense. It doesn’t seem right to me (still doesn’t) but if it helped you maybe it will help other people. Hope I didn’t upset you.   [End]
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are you still taking the colostrum? are you sure it’s not just the winter weather taking its toll on your lips?   [End]
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crazydave - how’s your progress coming? Please keep us updated. I think your story is important to combat a lot of the nonsense on here.   [End]
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Good luck CrazyDave! Seems like you have the right mindset. Wishing you all the best.   [End]
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I do exercise but I don’t know how much it helps. Biggest thing is not to peel - especially right after showering when it is super easy to do so.   [End]
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Good luck! ECaccutane is doing the same thing. Keep us posted on your progress. 5 days is still very early. It could be a month or two before you start to show real improvement. I definitely experienced ultradry lips when I first started japanese treatment as well. It felt like they were constantly tight. After a while it slowly went away. Good luck with your conference. I was in Spain a few years ago and loved it. Buen viaje en mi pais favorito!   [End]
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I wouldn’t worry about it. Lots of people on here used hydrocortisone. For the most part it makes the condition more manageable (at least initially). Definitely not a cure though and not intended for long term use either. I used it plenty of times years ago in one form or another.   [End]
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I would stick with this for a while longer. 20 days isn’t really enough to give up on it. If you want to start experimenting with other stuff then start doing liver flushes and gluten-free while you’re leaving it alone. I can only tell you what has worked for me and that’s japanese. good luck. ps- for more inspiration read over the posts of someone named ”stealthmode”. To be honest he seems a little crazy (maybe just funny?) but leaving alone seemed to cure him too. he updated to 6 months which was pretty much cured.   [End]
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This is the long play. The change was so slow that I never actually really saw it getting any better. Instead it was little changes over months until one day I realized that my lips looked pretty damn normal. You’re idea to take pictures is a great one because you can use it to motivate you, but I think everyday is probably a little much. I would try to let this affect you as little as possible. Try to go out and not think about it when you can. Hakuna’s experience supports this too. I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful but that’s just how it was. Most other people who had success with ...
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Not trying to sound rude, but having chapped lips in the winter is a very well known thing. For most people, winter is the only time when their lips get chapped. Have you not heard of this? Cold dry air is harsh on skin, lips included. Plus the cold weather forces you inside and the heated indoor air is even drier.   [End]
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Really interesting stuff. You said you got your EC in high school. Was it after taking accutane or just from biting and licking?   [End]
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Yeah sorry, just to be clear Hakuna, when you were not giving a shit were you using products or no? Were you manually peeling? Because they sort of sound like the same thing.   [End]
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Sorry just realized I didn’t answer your question. When did my lips peel and how? Well it varied from cycle to cycle. I tried to leave them on for as long as possible. Sometimes that was 4 days, sometimes it was more like 7-10. It just depends on what I was doing. If you’re washing make sure your washing very gently with a natural soap. I also switched to a natural tooth paste for the hell of it. Didn’t help my lips but i ended up really liking the toothpaste anyway.   [End]
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Hey dude, yeah, japanese worked for me. Just leave them alone. It sucks. It takes a long time. Then slowly they come back. I took accutane years ago and then afterwards continued to slather my lips in aquafor. Lips never got back to normal. Psychologically it really messed with me for a long time. To some extent is still does (hence why I’m even on this site right now). My lips are pretty much back now but I think they’re still getting better everyday. Definitely loads better than they used to be and I don’t have to carry around that gross little tube anymore. good luck. rep ...
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My EC started as a side effect from taking accutane. Was out of control for many years until recently.   [End]
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And it helped but didn’t cure you? How are your lips now?   [End]
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Longterm, Did going gluten free help your lips? I read over your posts but couldn’t really figure out. I’m curious just because of those guys who were cured so quickly by a gluten free diet (within two weeks I think). Although I don’t think it’s my problem because I’m nearly healed anyway, I wonder how many others could be helped by avoiding gluten.   [End]
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As I just said, that’s just the first post I could find. Click on her username to read through the posts. I imagine she didn’t post a link to the Japanese site because the vast majority of us don’t read Japanese. She continually updated for a long time and single handedly showed me how to cure my lips. Good luck. Short as it was, I found your post incredibly frustrating. Read before you respond.   [End]
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I mean what I’m saying, leave-it-alone, and monsterlip’s Japanese treatment are all really different iterations of the same thing. of course there are little things here and there that differ, but the overall treatment plan and mechanism of action is the same: Let the body to its thing (monsterlip also suggesting gentle cleansing and I think that’s a good idea too. I use diluted Dr Bronners. Don’t think she ever said what she used). I think there was some confusion where people thought leave-it-alone meant only avoiding balms. It’s equally or more important that you do not manually ...
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This is just a link to the first post of hers that I found. It’s funny you ask me for it because I’ve read posts where you’ve responded to her. They’re all from years ago but I suggest you click through her stuff. Very interesting. http://www.curezone.org/forums/am.asp?i=1812790   [End]
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Here’s a picture because I know they’re worth more than gold here. I still have remnants left over of the ”triangle” but it’s mostly just like a border of fordyce spots. http://curezone.com/upload/_O_P_Forums/Peeling_Lips/IMG_24631.jpg I’m not really sure what to think about the fordyce spots. I definitely think they’re related to EC because they’re literally on the exact perimeter of where I had problems. I hope they go away but I’m 100% sure no one else thinks about them except for me. If I took the picture from even a foot or two away you wouldn’t be able to see anything.
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longterm, I’m just curious because I’ve been reading your posts for so long - how are your lips? Have you seen improvement over the years? I know you found out you had celiac and went gluten free but has that cured you or not?   [End]
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I wrote a post a while back advocating everyone to chill the f*** out and I just wanted to check back in and say that this is still working great for me. I moved back from South America to Florida (where I first developed symptoms) and still everything is going great. To be clear, the most important thing is to not manually peel your lips under any circumstances. I read a post a long time ago that suggested going on a ”mirror diet” and I think this is just about the best advice anyone could give. If you’re like me, think about all the time you’ve wasted over the years staring at you ...
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Peelstation, I am so happy to hear your story. It sounds like your head is definitely in the right place. A word of caution though, I didn’t start seeing real progress with my lips until I completely stopped putting stuff on them. In fact, the constant moisture method was pretty much what I was doing all those years I dealt with this condition. I’ve probably spent a small fortune on aquaphor over the last 6-10 years and I honestly used to swear by the stuff. Still though, looking back I think that in applying it I was peeling my lips in the process. Short term it made my lips look bette ...
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I got E.C after taking accutane nearly 10 years ago. While I was on the drug my lips were terribly chapped, always bleeding, and crusting regularly. It got to the point where my lips became far more stressful than my acne and I wondered why I ever took the drug in the first place. Fast forward a few months to when I finished my accutane course. I took my last pill excitedly knowing that in a few weeks my lips would be back to normal, or so my doctor had told me. The only thing was that my lips never returned to their prior healthy state. That is, never until now. I should say too that ...
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