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Grover's Disease: What works to help find relief?
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Hello. I have had a recurrence of GD. It started in late November. Very depressing. My dermatologist wanted to start me on doxycycline, again. after having been on antibiotics for eight months I picked up the prescription and did not take them. I went to my primary doctor and showed her my rash she took blood and included an allergen panel. It turns out I have an allergy to peanuts and hazelnuts. Who knew. I love peanut butter. Could this be part of my Grovers I dont know. She also prescribed me hydroxyzine 25 mg tablets to take three times a day. I too wake with a sinus headache. I’m only taking the pill once a day as it makes me tired. This past Saturday I spent an hour in a salt cave. They put me close to the halogenertor so the fine salt would fall onto my skin. and as crazy as this is going to sound on Sunday I woke up feeling quite good. No itching! I did not have Grovers on my mind and I did not take any of my medication that day- I just forgot. So I don’t know if the salt helped my body or if it’s this new medication that is helping me. Today, it’s here but it’s tolerable. I do have witch hazel in the house and a spray bottle so I am going to try that concoction. I am very sorry that the cilantro smoothie stopped helping you. I also found a Facebook group regarding Grovers if you are interested you should join.
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Interesting about the salt. I imagine it would be antibacterial and possibly drying? Glad it got yoru mind off the GD itch. I have never heard of a salt cave or this treatment, sounds pretty wild! But why not? I would try it.
Peanuts contain mold, so I am not allowed because of yeast issues which raise inflammation. Also antibiotics raise yeast levels and raise inflammation, so when my derm wanted me to go on doxy for rosacea I avoided it and stuck with topicals that did the trick. Internal antibiotics never helped with GD, but I have used Clindamycin, a topical antibiotic. I never did show infection. Many nuts are heavy in metals and on this site there was an interesting article about mercury (a liquid metal) being a cause of GD and of Parkinson's. I have so tried to give up nuts (I had the hair test showing nut allergies and I had blood test which showed 6 metal allergies) and gave up my almonds for a week but am breaking down again and snacked on them yesterday and today. Maybe this is also part of the reason I improved this week?
I have resisted the Facebook group as I blog on this site and the Inspire site and only so many hours in the day for free time, but like you others praise it. If my improvement stalls or fails I will consider blogging on it because I am always searching for inspiration and ideas. This Mayo site has been amazingly helpful, yes the cilantro stopped working, but it stopped my last outbreak so I had 14 months free of GD. I really forgot what the itching and pain felt like.