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

Skin Health | Last Active: Dec 6 3:31pm | Replies (2018)

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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.

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Hello again, I just read the post about the salt cave and your response. I am writing you because you seem to be extremely knowledgeable about these issues. I think I noticed that at some point you stopped doing the cilantro because it stopped working. I have been drinking cilantro smoothies for about a month now with no real effects that I can point to. I drink them with the hope that over time they will have a cumulative effect. To your knowledge is there a point at which you should notice a difference or does one just continue to hope that eventually they will work their magic ? Very little other than Motrin and cortisone creams has very much success with me. I do the light room and witch hazel as well. As I'm sure you know it is unbelievably frustrating. I do have some days better than others but on the whole I just scratch and suffer through it. I am going to Bali for a month in March and hopr that the sun and salt water give me some relief. I realize that any real cure is more complicated than just getting rid of the itch. Just praying for a cure. Many thanks.