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Grover's Disease: What works to help find relief?
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I just received my order of Sarna a few days ago and I too have found it to be a disappointment so far. It does help a little in some places, but the areas that are EXTREMELY itchy, where I need results from it the most, seem to easily shrug it off. Another substance that I saw others saying helped or stopped their itching was zinc oxide. That stuff did absolutely ZIP for me except make my skin feel oily and sticky. Yuk!
Also, thanks for the detailed info on your cilantro smoothies. When I mentioned being too lazy to go through all that trouble, I was partly serious and partly just employing self-deprecating humor. I decided to try the concentrated and organic drops first since as you say, the cilantro smoothies don't always work, and even if they do, some people have a relapse anyway. That would frustrate me to no end to have gone to all that fuss and bother to either achieve nothing or only a temporary fix. The cilantro drops are so easy, I decided to give them a shot just hoping I would get lucky. I haven't read but a handful of the pages on this forum yet, so I have only scraped the surface of what people have tried and found ineffective, but so far, I have seen that some found the cilantro capsules to be worthless, but I haven't yet seen anyone mentioning the concentrated drops of cilantro. Are you sure others have already tried that and failed?
Please understand that I am not questioning your honesty. I just want all the info I can gather and I want to be able to clearly interpret that info. Thanks so much for your input.
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Humor often doesn't translate in our writing and I often get in trouble with my writings. Yet trust me I am not and never was upset by you, I simply wanted to save you time and and not waste it with an ineffective treatment. I Only post now trying to help others. At present I am eczema free of all 3 of my types but that has been a 20 year journey. I understand your misery right now. I understand wanting to get around the fresh or frozen cilantro bother. I couldn't accept that it had to be fresh. Only later did a blogger recommend freezing it for convenience because that worked for her. I did use frozen about half the time after that. I didn't like the taste of the smoothies at first, but one does get used to them and finds them refreshing. Like you I also tried to avoid doing that using tablets and who knows gel could work. Do your homework and go back to mid Feb 2019 on this site and follow the tales of real folks who are experimenting with cilantro, desperate and hoping. It seemed to helped about 50% of us. Go to the earthclinic forum Kimass1 learned about cilantro on this site. She posts the website page in mid Feb also. I read the stories of fellow GD bloggers on that site, wow, one man had it solid for 6 years without a remission period and it worked for him.
Search the internet and read up on cilantro as a heavy metal detox. There are other natural herbs which help too. You can have your blood chelated to remove heavy metals, but this is a medical treatment requiring doctors and would not be covered by insurance as heavy metals is not an accepted cause of GD. Cilantro, while it takes longer, is cheaper. I do not know how long I will stay in remission, yet it hasn't returned since I stopped with daily smoothies. I make one every few months now.