Hello all,

I came across this forum in january when my SD got completely out of control and I felt that the doctors I was visiting and the creams I was using have no answer for me. Basically I was desperate. This post shows my experience dealing with SD afterwards - what I learned, how I changed. The reason I write this is that, maybe, someone can learn something.

(see attached a photo: the spots with #1 are the first spots I had, then #2 and #3 when it got really bad; that''s how I looked now, free of any pills for about 4 weeks)

//www.curezone.org/ig/i.asp?i=77381

A few things about me first (you cam scroll below if you don't care): I am 34 and I love food:) I basically live for food, I'd eat anything anywehere and I am also an impulse eater. To make things worse I sometimes eat a chocolate a day and I need to have something sweet daily. I have dandruff since I was 14. I vividly remember doing my homework and flicking my hair on my paperbook, creating a "rug" of white flakes. There was no shampoo on the local market that could help - not even the pharmaceutical one, Nizoral - in fact, thought that was clearing my hair on a short term basis, it made it extremely oily.

In faculty my face was drying up and it looked flaky but there was also nothing I could do about it. Then my hair started falling at ~20, probably because of the tons of dandruff as it was not a heredutary baldness.

So this is the first time I went to a doctor: I was also earning some money so I could afford better shampoos - I had some results with BlueCap, too late though.
Then, at ~27 red spots appeared on my face - at number 1. I went to a doctor and he recommended Kelual DS. It actually worked, I used it twice a day and in 3-4 days it would go away. But in 2-3 weeks it kep coming back.

After each year it kept developing, growing on the other side of the nose as well, a little below - #2 - so I kep visiting doctors and spending money on creams. Kelual DS was worse and worse in keeping it away so I tried Triderm. That also worked, but the recommendation was not to abuse it. I was also prescribed hydrocortyzon but because of my fear towards addiction I never used it.

So in december.2014 it got really-really bad. All you see on my face was red, flaky, greasy. Everything. I was desperate - you know the feeling:( I went to another doctor who prescribed more creams (which I obviously bought) but to no avail. I did not want to go to work, I did not want to go outside.

So I googled and came across Curezone Forum. First post: Bulldancer's (I hope I remember correctly his name). The title was "/...the cure for SD!!!...". Or similar, I do not want to look for it now. It was remerkable. I already felt hald cured. I went online and ordered Dead Sea Salt . I was in a wonderful mood! All those people being cured - and forever! - how fantastic. I did not want to read more about it, I was happy.
3 days later it came so I started petting it, talking to the salt nicely. Then I put it on my face, I'd wait, bask in the stinging, feeling it cure my SD. It was like smoking a joint :DD But reality struck back. 2-3 days with treatment and still nothing heppened. Minor improvements which mught have happened because of my endorphine. Back to square 1 this time with thoughts of suicide (joking). And back to Curezone, reading absolutely everything. This time though I did not have much hope left. Seeing all these people get cured - some not - left me indifferent. I was reading about people so well disciplined that they removed types of food, keeping excels of the creams they use - I am not one. Besides, food it something I love - how to give it up?

But information stuck. After 2-3 days of reading I accumulated almost everybody's "cure". Of course, doing everything proposed here would take up all day so you need to be selective. So I took small steps that got to where I am now.

Step 1
Probiotics - went and bought a couple from a pharmacy. Looked and felt cheap so I ordered something online. Did not trust those either so I bought from Secom - which comes highly recommended. Daily intake.

Step 2
Paleo - yes, the gourmand in me started crying. But I did it - for 2 weeks only and not sure I did not step across the line a few times.
In all honesty I did not feel any benefits from this. Just sadness that I have to give up my normal lifestyle and unaswerable questions whether Ill ever be back to my old self. You know, depressive chit chat.

Step 3
Garlic - guys, if there's anything I'd strongly recommend is garlic on en empt stomach in the morning. No, people will not run away from you all day because you SWALLOW it, NOT chew. It will perform miracles in every possible aspect - from general health to cleaning fungus.

Step 4
General eating discipline.
For ex.: drink enough water a day; do NOT drink after eating a solid lunch/dinner. Wait for 2 hours until digestion is done, do not mess it up. Drink as much as you want before.
After meals wait a bit before eating again.
Also please never eat until you blow up - like I used to.
Losing a few kilos will help, at least until you feel you are lean and sexy:)

Step 5
I gave up a coffee for 4 months. Now i am trying it little by little and, as you see, my skin still looks ok. But people are right, you need to lay off "explosive food".

Step 6
Extract of buds of elm (I am ttaching a romanian link this is the only one I know: http://www.plantextrakt.ro/produse-gemoterapice/gemoterapice-unitare/extract-din-muguri-de-ulm-ulmus-campestris-mg-d1)
Worked like a charm and I take it daily together with birch extract - a general aid for imunity.

Step 7
Look for the sun! If I'd pick 2 things to recommand people it'd be the sun and the garlic. And take this from someoine who goes at the beach and stays under the umbrella.

Sensitive step 8
Sport: I actually feel that sport does not help at all. Until septemebr.2014 I ran for about 1,5 years. I did few marathons too. All that time I had SD on my face and it became worse. I'm not saying sport makes it worse, I'm just saying that for me it did not work. Since september I did not run at all and now I will undergo a knee operation but after I hope I can go back to running.

What happened to me after all of the above? It got better to where it is now. But in time. At first the #3 spots became less visible. Then the #2 ones. But they kept recurring so, in desperation, I used 3 times Triderm and 3-4 times Kelual DS, my old buddy. It seemd to worked much better than before though.

Now I look like this for 4 weeks. This is the reason I decided to bore you with my story. Maybe it will help someone, hopefully.

I am NOT cured, I just keep it inside. And nobody can cure it, it's just nonsense - please do not believe that. Everybod is different, every singe organism reacts in other ways to stimuli.
And please believe. The mind - they say - is the most powerful muscle. If I'd have any wits - and medical training - I'd manufacture a placebo called "No more SD". I'd soon buy mr Zuckerberg:)

Good luck, now I gotta go check out the hemoroids forum:DD