Hiii.
Yeah I agree in this picture I just have small flakes on my lips and honestly if every one here just follows the leaving alone treatment and allows his lips to get wet he would have exactly the same result than me.
It is more or less the same thing that Daniel experienced and according to me his progress is still just an illusion, no offense at all but when he wasn't used to wet his lips they objectively weren't showing some improvement and it's just when he decided to wet them a little that they started to be esthetically more good.
Of course Daniel you said that underneath you felt better and better each week and I totally can understand that! According to me, it was just the ugly flakes which just easily came unstuck once they got wet, and that's all, but the peeling lips keeps going but, of course, lips just look more good. This doesn't prevent me from wanting you to be cured!
About the lipbalm I started to use, it was for me the best thing I could do because objectively after more than 4-5 months of leaving alone treatment there wasn't very improvement, always this peeling cycle which kept going, no matter what. I would have hoped a small area heals, but it didn't, and I don't think it would have improved if I would have let my lips alone few more months.
For me, no matter I put lipbalm, or wet my lips, eat or drink, my condition just remains, there aren't some periods more or less strong, just a peeling cycle which keeps going no matter what I do.
I doubt about the 'rebuilding of the lips layer' because a semi-mucous membrane doesn't take so long to recover and I understand that it can depend of what triggered this EC etc, but objectively, if I stand back on my condition, there wasn't any improvement at all, without considering the state changes in a peeling cycle, so the fact of putting lipbalm again was seriously taken, having the choice to let just flakes growing on my lips or hide them and move to an other step.
I'm waiting for my biopsy results with my derm, I've also contacted an other one who was recommended to me, my appointment in 10 days.