Too long. It's quite painful. I don't know about a dog, maybe you should make an animal + bloodroot topic.

Anyway, I posted a lot a while ago and i guess no one has an opinion on what is happening to my arm. My skin must be quite bad in this one spot because this is the third time i've tried to get stuff out and it keeps coming. my other spots are mostly out and i'm quite proud of them. nothing much comes up when i try and get the last bit of it. but the right arm is killing me. i also got a bandaid with bloodroot wet from the shower and it spread out for the square portion of the bandaid. the entire area came up with yellow evil dots. where does this stuff come from? do dead thigs rise to the surface or is an entire portion of the skin dying because of something dying underneath. i have no idea what's happening, it's like nobody else's story. i used bloodroot on 4 irregular moles that've caused me much grief embarassment and low self esteem. i ordered bloodroot pills. haven't started taking yet, not really sure if it'll help all too much.

i leave bloodroot paste on for two days, i'm not sure how much zincchloride is in it. it hurts. it doesn't destroy the tissue that's new with nothing bad underneath it, but it DOES destroy new tissue (think about multiple attempts because sticking bloodroot +ZnCl hurts like a MOFO) if you didn't have enough time for the bloodroot to permeate. limited time withmine until blood starts being open.

suck SUCK SUCK

and i'm doing this through college too so
suck suck MAJOR suck.

but i know if i quit it will come back.

the one on my right arm i didn't get all of it the first time, then it came back and i watched it grow because i just couldn't take trying again.

this whole process (i would say i'm about 46 % done with 4) has been over 6 months now.

I've read that animals don't seem to experience pain with Bloodroot to the same degree that humans do.

Tim

"Of course, I found the most horrific pics online of scars and holes ... not to mention pictures of people losing their entire noses! " - are you talking about the lady that cut of her nose with sewing shears and put some sorts of toxic chemical on it to get money in a lawsuit? or the one where the tissue from the nose was abnormal? so therefore it left a holeish? that makes sense because once you eat through to nothing it can't grow back but if on regular skin there's a generative tissue underneath.

"I've heard that these are extreme cases but I would say that unless you have a very very good reason ( other than vanity) to remove a portion of your body with bloodroot, Don't even think about doing it." for new users, who maybe under the msiconception that its proper use is cosmetic, yea don't use it. it's a horrible thing that scars. but if you're going to go to some f#$%er doctors who are money oriented or are stuck in there ways, go to bloodroot.

"I have read that it doesn't know the difference between healthy skin or cancerous skin... " it takes out abnormal cells, weak, or new cells that can't stand up to the alkaloids bloodroot puts in the area. and honestly i think the ZnCl sucks a$$. it ionizes in sweat better and in the shower water. if you keep retrying on the same spot later on etc, if there hasn't been enough time to heal it might destroy new tissue. or if there are remnant cells, remember people cells are microscopic, They Grow Back.


"it's a waiting game to see how much skin the bloodroot actually destroyed and what kind of scar I'll end up with." it's about how long can you handle putting new bloodroot on because once the necrotic tissue starts breaking (if it does) your crazy deep dermal cells will be exposed to the ZnCl AND bloodroot. OUCH. it is a very horrible horrible horrible * infinite pain. (i put a dob on a hole once the stuff came out to try and get everything but i couldn't take it. a chemical burn immediately resulted.)

"I've been using Hydrogen Peroxide to cleanse, alternating Neosporene periodically and AD ointment as well and I've been trying to let it breathe so it will dry up." bloodroot is a disinfectant in and of itself and i have never had an infection and have never cleaned it with hperoxide.

"I am trying not to touch it - worried about infection. Regarding pulling the scabs or skin, I would stop picking at it immediately. And I would definitely not use any more Bloodroot. Good luck! I'll let you know how mine has healed up." yea it risks a lot by picking, but a lot of the stuff that will die already dies near the first use and then the small pustule liek things just start to fill up with fluid.

there is also a matter of depth and sticking ability. new mole tissue is strangely resistant. also time = depth. yea

i'm off my rant.

i read a h%ll of a lot before i started and thought about all of my sources. i even went to a library to get a microfilm of the plant studies from like... about 100 years ago.

sheesh.