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

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If you follow results of cilantro starting mid Feb 2019 on this blog you will only see that either fresh or fresh frozen cilantro has benefit. Perhaps I missed reading the positive results from those that did the drops, if so please correct me.
All other treatments of which I have a cabinet full of were a waste of time and money- my GD had a predictable rhythm after the first full year of rash it was six months of dormancy and 6 months of activity. My first year was the most severe with all the front and back torso covered, after that the rash area was smaller, not going up to my neck and the pain and itching a few degrees less, still awful.

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I would never contradict you, @gardeningjunkie, when it comes to this miserable subject that brought us all together here, but I just recently read absolutely EVERYTHING on this forum from 2019 forward until the present, and I don't recall seeing any more than one mention of someone taking the cilantro drops, but I may have forgotten since I'm an old geezer. Also, there was no mention of which particular formulation or brand that was tried, so my conclusion was that there was almost no evidence one way or the other concerning their efficacy. Perhaps you are referring to info you gathered on drops from elsewhere? Anyway, since there was such a lack of evidence about them as far as I knew, I decided to experiment on myself using USDA certified organic cilantro drops from Herb Pharm which I found on Amazon.com. The reviews I found there indicated a serious detox effect from most people who took them, but they were not referring specifically to Grover's. Also, we don't even know what causes Grover's and whether the cause of it is the same for all who develop it. Since exposure to heavy metals or to chemicals which are used in many common products is one possibility, that could be the reason that fresh cilantro helped you and the 50% of people overall that you have mentioned in the past. If Grover's is caused in some people by over-exposure to the sun, I see no reason any form of cilantro, fresh or drops, would help these people. At any rate, my Grover's has been quite noticeably improving since I started taking the above-mentioned drops on 6/9, so I will continue on this course to see if it might ever go away completely. More evidence is needed from far more people to draw any conclusions here. All these treatments that doctors try and that we try on ourselves are just trial-and-error anyway, so perhaps newer participants here on this forum can run some more trials and see what happens. I sincerely hope your days of trial-and-error are over forever and you stay in remission, @gardeningjunkie !

thanks im going to make some cilantro pesto...I hope you are doing better...I have had it for years now that I think about it - one time on my eye lids after my husband passed so stress could have spawned that one. but it has really reared its ugly head this year particularly on my hands / fingers.