Here's an abstract to a study about effects of chronic manganese exposure:

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/112/2/394


"Chronic exposure to manganese (Mn) produces a spectrum of cognitive and behavioral deficits associated with a neurodegenerative disorder resembling Parkinson’s disease."

"Striatal dopamine levels were increased in juvenile mice but were decreased in adult preexposed as juveniles."

i've read that link, and the risk is the same thing i've read somewhere else when i started researching it, this is due to breathing in heavy metals,airborne manganese... not supplemental manganese.

you can read this thread. It displays alot of references about manganese pro's and con's, but the con's were not due to supplemental manganese but due to breathing in heavy metals in a work environment(like mines, welding etc)

http://www.socialanxietysupport.com/forum/f11/is-manganese-the-solution-70691/


taking rda of manganese a day won't cause cancer. I'm waiting on my arrival of manganese supplements to try it, i've grown up with EC, so also social anxiety has developed. I'll know for sure if the stuff works, i'll keep you updated.

If you have anxiety about your lip appearance when talking to other people then it is not because of a deficiency in my opinion. Alcohol helps against anxiety too but that doesn't mean it is a good cure for it.
I think you need to change the way you think and percieve yourself, if someone asks about your lips then just tell them it is a skin condition that is difficult to heal. I bet most people don't even care.
It was only in periods where my lips were very bad that some people asked me about it.

I know I have been very self aware about my lips when talking face to face with people, I did things like touching them and hiding them in my mouth.

uklad's right. Don't waste your life over this. Find a moisturiser or balm which makes the lips as manageable as possible and get on with it. There's far, far worse things that could be wrong.

For 3 years I let this seriously affect my life. Not going out with friends, avoiding dating girls etc. I went back to Uni at 26 last year to do a teaching course. Finally realising that girls were still interested regardless of this took me out of this spiral.

I used to be completely obsessed with EC. I'd be on here every night longing for a cure and trying everything I could afford attempting to do so. When I think of the hundreds (and possibly thousands) of pounds I've wasted I can't believe it. Now I still pop back maybe once a week to see if anyone has posted anything more than, "This is definately what's wrong. This is definately the cure etc."

We all have theories but no-one (and I mean no-one) on here really knows what's wrong or truly how to cure it. For the millionth time I'll say that my Fordyce's Spots are linked.

Batrafen (Ciclopirox) applied twice a day and Dovonex applied before bed have made this as manageable as I have found in the last 3 years. The lips peel fairly easily and evenly when I choose to do so.

I'm extremely content with my life at the moment even though I have to peel off three squares on the bottom of my top lip and rinse a white line of slime off my lips occassionally.

You can live life with this. You just have to accept it and deal with it as best you can.

Where you based uklad?