wound licking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_licking

Hey, I was just about to leave the forum, good thing you caught me :) After sharing my info, the response I received was of doubt, disbelief and accounts that this did not work. The doubt may have come from the fact that I have to use lip balm regularly and so I am dependant on it to have normal looking lips. Also, the fact that I still have a trace amounts of peeling skin. I am ok with all this because my lip skin has grown back fuller, has a pink color and is soft to the touch :) Better than anything in the last 14 years.

About 5 months ago after complete desperation at the appearance and feel of my lips, I went back to a time 14 years ago, when my lips were normal. I was a lip licker then and my lips were usually always fine. The only time my lips would get dry was when I was sick and I had to breathe through my mouth. The logical thing to do then was to apply some lip balm. My lips always ended up fine until I stopped licking my lips completely. They started to dry out severely and I would end up picking or biting all the dead skin off, which made it worse because I would get healthy skin too. I tried licking them again but that just made them worse, I tried applying lip balms, over and over but that didn’t work either.

14 years passed in this crazy loop, until finally after going back to the beginning, I thought about it logically. What do my lips need? They are dry... so they need water! But that’s not enough because my lips can’t hold the water because there is no skin there. They need a barrier to hold the water... lip balm! So I decided to start licking my lips to wet them and then to apply a natural lip balm(one that could be ingested and one that doesn’t prevent me from re-wetting my lip skin) whenever they felt dry.

It’s kind of a slow process. At first I noticed very little improvement, still thick hard peeling skin, but over the course of about 20 days, of doing this when my lips felt dry, the peeling skin got thinner and thinner and the under alive skin got thicker. Having a layer of dead skin seems normal and seems to help heal and protect the skin. If this layer is prematurely removed no healing effect seems to take place. Now I’m hoping that in time and maybe with the humid summer coming, the tiny amount of peeling skin will stop altogether, but the skin around my mouth and nose flakes so I don’t know if this will ever happen.

For me there is no other way to heal this. My lips seem to need water and always have. For instance, even if I was miraculously given 100% non-peeling, never had EC lips, I believe due to not hydrating them the same exact cycle would happen all over again.

Good luck