Grover's Disease: What works to help find relief?

Although I do not have Grover's Disease I follow the Skin Health section on this blog and I have learned a lot glancing through all of your posts. Just curious, have any of you tried skin numbing cream to get some relief?

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Both of our ancestors had reasons to leave the Slavic countries. Amazing family tales of fleeing from Russia- poverty and hardships. Yes Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible is an amazing book, yes genius, one of my favorites of all time. It was especially enjoyable because of it's unique story-line. The other books I read of hers were fine, but not remarkable. I have Where the Crawdad's Sing and look forward to it. Have you read Water for Elephants, another favorite of mine because of it's unique tale It's a true adventure. . My husband takes time out every afternoon to sit outside' weather permitting and read and so I have an abundant amount of action books to recycle and have read every Lee Child book with Jack Reacher as a character. Retired now and loving being a homemaker full time and a pacifist at heart I don't know why I love reading about Reacher traveling the country without a suitcase and violently righting all the injustices he finds along the way. Even with my bookclub choices haven't read a truly amazing book in a year. I loved the first few Vince Flynn books but not his others as they were all action and no soul, loved the early John Grissom books, but after those all became predictable. One of his books is unique, not about the courtroom, The Painted House, it was not one of his most popular books but both my husband and I found this profoundly moving, a real favorite of mine. Look it up. You will once again remember feeling the pain and loss of innocence growing up.

Yet this is totally off subject for this site. If you want to talk books this site doesn't allow for friends, but if you go to Inspire site it is much like the Mayo, a medical blog site that discusses various health issues, eczema is one (but no interest in GD ),you can join and request to be my friend (same name gardeningjunkie) and we can send messages personally though this site without cluttering up a medical discussion.

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Although I do not have Grover's Disease I follow the Skin Health section on this blog and I have learned a lot glancing through all of your posts. Just curious, have any of you tried skin numbing cream to get some relief?

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Lots of info about GD tied to heavy metals, Google it. You have limited options because of implant but it sure couldn't hurt you to try the cilantro. My only negative side effect after consuming 1/2 large bunch daily for 9 months was some darkening of pigment spots on my cheeks. Reading on the internet this can happen when consuming too much cilantro. I gave it up at that time because I thought I was getting another GD recurrence so why take it , but turned out my rash was a reaction to the Shingrex vaccine. Once this reaction cleared up in about 2 months I didn't go back on cilantro. Still in remission and am gardening about 5 hours a day right now, but temps have been comfortable so not sweating yet. I'm realistic, I know it will return someday but it's been a year now.

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I think there’s a connection between sweat and temperature and GD breakouts. I live in Florida and had been in remission when the pandemic started. To save my sanity I began working in my yard. I was fine from March till July. That’s when we got the summer humidity and within a month it came back bc I was sweating profusely while working in my yard. I’m again starting to work in my yard without the sweat pouring out of me because the humidity has fallen. I definitely think there’s a connection to my breakout.
Sincerely,
Linda Beattie
P.S. I sent you a private message early this evening too.

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I used extra strength Bengay. It worked to numb the itching. It burned “so good”. It would work for several hours at a time. It has menthol and camphor. I had to apply to my entire torso and I could taste it in my mouth within minutes of applying, so that was concerning.

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I think there’s a connection between sweat and temperature and GD breakouts. I live in Florida and had been in remission when the pandemic started. To save my sanity I began working in my yard. I was fine from March till July. That’s when we got the summer humidity and within a month it came back bc I was sweating profusely while working in my yard. I’m again starting to work in my yard without the sweat pouring out of me because the humidity has fallen. I definitely think there’s a connection to my breakout.
Sincerely,
Linda Beattie
P.S. I sent you a private message early this evening too.

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I definitely agree with the sweating as a trigger. I have learned that when I do sweat if possible to quickly clean, rinse with cool water, pat dry and moisturize. It’s weird because sometimes I have sweated and then could not clean up after and no problem. I just never know exactly how my skin is going to react. Internally and externally. Sometimes when I know I’m going to sweat I’ll apply gold bond powder beforehand not my favorite but sometimes helps. Some people use creams with zinc oxide as a moisture barrier but I have found they are thick and hard to clean off and I don’t like to scrub my sensitive skin. I’m in California so sweating is an issue. Can’t wait til it cools off here. Although, Grover’s still exist for me even in cooler weather 😡

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I think there’s a connection between sweat and temperature and GD breakouts. I live in Florida and had been in remission when the pandemic started. To save my sanity I began working in my yard. I was fine from March till July. That’s when we got the summer humidity and within a month it came back bc I was sweating profusely while working in my yard. I’m again starting to work in my yard without the sweat pouring out of me because the humidity has fallen. I definitely think there’s a connection to my breakout.
Sincerely,
Linda Beattie
P.S. I sent you a private message early this evening too.

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