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

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Would you share your GD cycle pattern if you have one? It is interesting to compare what I dealt with compared to others and I'm sure others would be interested.

1st outbreak of GD- 1 year and the most severe
subsequent outbreaks for 4 years 6 months of activity and 6 months of dormancy and although miserable, the misery index was lower then with the first outbreak.
Now free of GD for almost 2 years due to fresh or frozen cilantro

With my ACD I have multiple fabric allergies which are related to rubber. You know you react to latex, an element in rubber, but there are many other rubber related allergens. I am not allergic to latex but to Mercaptobenzothiazole, MBT, an element in rubber used to synthesize materials like spandex, elastic, nylon, poly/cotton, rayon and of course pure rubber contains it although that is not a synthesized material. Safe fabrics for me are not a blend, like 100% cotton, 100% polyester, silk, bamboo and such. Even leather works for me because I am not allergic to tanning ingredients like formaldehyde.

I do wonder if your other locations with eczema symptom's is related to ACD. My 5 Day Extended Patch Test identified my allergens.

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Hello! I have been reading these post for almost one full year. THANK YOU!! They have been so very helpful...more than any doctor. I too have been battling ONE full year of hell with grovers disease. I really wish this website was more user friendly!!

I’ve learned so much so from this group and the Facebook group. I’ll post my experience from start to finish on a new post so it’s not embedded in this thread only.

Take aways, I also have allergies. Only had seasonal allergies before now. After the extended allergy test I learned. I’m allergic to:
1. Carba Mix - pesticides, fungicides, latex, parabens (preservative) plastic...all things containing “emollients” which are typically in topical steroids
2 textile dyes - yes, you read this correct. Clothes are dyed in artificial dyes and then treated with formaldehyde!! So not only is texture important so is the chemicals that are on the clothes. Textile dyes take 6 months to get out of your system FYI. Super fun on top of GD 😂
3. Lidocaine- very interesting as in many lotions