Hi Plasticat, I can imagine this is unbelieveably frustrating. Seems like you have been through the mill and trying just about anything and everything. I see you do try the essential fatty acids, but are you including saturated fats like butter? which are actually healthy but given a very bad rap.

Aside from that, it seems there is something else going on that is not allowing you to heal or experience benefits from your ongoing efforts. Cleansing and flushing and all those things might be ok temporarily, but shouldn't have to be ongoing and if anything may not be healthy. The body needs to build up and heal too and have a chance to absorb nurtients and fats in order for anything to happen. If you are flushing all the time and doing too many cleanses, you may cause issues, rather than help them. The body needs a break and a chance to rebuild.

Do you have dental amalgams? I am trying to figure out an ongoing source that maybe going into your system all the time and possibly causing this entire issue. Mercury is a biggy for some people and they are often not aware and exhaust all issues in health and find they are not getting too far.

The candida diet is great for sure, and having enough protein (eggs, meats), essential fatty acids and saturated fats, whilst avoiding hardened vegetable oils and trans fats, but if you have an ongoing source of toxicity, you may not get too far. Your weakness must be your skin, and whatever weakness you have, the toxicity will exaggerate that to the extreme. Like someone else may have a weakness towards mental symptoms, so they may end up with very bad Depression or other problems in that area. Or someone else it maybe migraines etc.

Just a thought for you, you may already have addressed this, but if not, I would seriously look into it, as there is really not much more you can do. If you have provided the healthy Diet with plenty of vegtables, proteins, fats and no sugar, gluten, milk, no fruit (temporarily) etc and things are not improving, then something else is definitely going on. I'd put my bets on mercury. and YES it can and does cause very dry skin, rashes and everything. Candida can too, but usually candida and mercury go hand in hand as they both can set eachother off. one worsens the other.

I seem to recall you mentioned facial scarring and suggestions were made about chemical face peel or laser treatment, but I don't remember if you responded or not. I dont' think you did.

Have you tried the Iodine supplementation program yet?

Cured the slight dry flaky skin problem I have within a month.

did you try lysine, proline and vitamin c for your dry flaking skin?

I should have posted last night; I would have slept better. I woke up at 4:30 this morning with you on my mind. I would like to share my thoughts on your health issues by relating them somewhat to my own issues as well as my husbands.

My husband developed terribly dry, flakey skin, I am talking "BAD" and his hair started falling out (thinning). He accidentally poisoned himself by eating B17, laetrile, in the form of apricot seeds. He had cyanide poisoning. He almost killed himself.
I will assume that there is nothing or no one in your environment that is poisoning you...for you have some classic symptoms of poisoning.

Now for my skin issues. I have been dealing with this for over 10 years and am just now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel (and it is not a freight train). I had very dry, flakey, scaly, itchy skin and this was diagnosed as seborrhoeic dermatitis. 80% of my head was effected and almost every part of my body. (not solid just patches all over) I also had/have rosacea, which includes Acne and a red inflamed face. During all of this, I also developed a non cancerous tumor on the very end of my nose. (plus I deal with many other health issues) I did not want to leave the house to go to work, but I had to work.

Now most days I prayed that this would be the day the Lord healed me. But of course, I know that faith without works is dead so I stayed (stay) busy doing my works. I am sure you know about diet so I won't discuss that and you have stated that you cleanse your colon, liver, and kidneys. And I will assume that is on going. The liver cleanse for me is a must. But more or just as important is maintaining parasite cleanses. I tried many parasite cleanses with little results, but everything I studied on my skin and other health issues lead me to believe my problem was parasite overload, especially Candida. On my third liver cleanse, I decided to combine it with The Barefoot Herbalist dewormer. I won't go into all the specifics, but the next day I passed what looked like a large white dumpling. It was about 5 inches long and 3 inches wide at one end tapering down to 2 inches in length. It was over an inch thick. This was a colony of Candida. (I also passed many other things that day and the next...tape worms, liver flukes, pinworms.....) I was in total denial about what I was passing. I remember looking at it and whimpering...I couldn't stop whimpering and I could not get my husband to look at it!!! I continue to pass these things to this day. But my skin is so much improved. Baby soft!!!!

I also recommend the following:
Oxygen therapies: drink ozone and take H202 baths. (I passed a tape worm the morning after an H202 bath. I had a terrible night!) You need oxygen.
Oiling pulling. I have tried different oils, but palm oil makes the biggest difference to my skin.... soft.
Dry skin brushing when you are able to.
Cod liver oil, krill oil and coconut oil. I eat coconut oil. I do not put it on my skin as a lotion. It is drying for me.
I started the Iodine therapy about 6 weeks ago and I HIGHLY recommend it. Stay with it...forever. I have passed candida
on this therapy. (I do coffee enemas with it to help with the detox) I cannot believe what a big parasitic mess I am!!!
But then of course considering my past I really do believe it.
Do not eat vegetarian.
Make fasting part of your life.

I know I have left out much, but I hope this helps in some way. Remember that God wants to give you the desires of your heart.

May God bless and keep you.

P.S. My hair also used to be thin, dry, just awful! My hair stylist used to call it "danger hair." It is now thick and shiny!!!!

Have you tried using an infared sauna? try going 5 days a week for a few week and see if it helps. It helped me tremendously.

You have a problem internally in your body somewhere and topical agents will do you no good. I have suffered from skin problems my whole life. You need to find out what specifically is causing your problems. Applied kinesiology is the greatest diagnostic tool out there. It is amazing how much progress I have made with my health seeing one - and as my health has gotten better my skin has. I was able to find out through him that I have a polarity problem with my pituitary gland. It thinks that I am producing too much of a number of critical substances (testosterone, l-arginine, stomach acid among others) and therefore it shuts down production leaving me severely deficient. Anyway, I started on a testosterone cream because my levels were so low and had immediate bad side effects. I though i was having a bad allergic reaction. I felt like I had a bad case of the flu and my face became completely red and inflamed and very badly broken out. I went back in to see my kinesiologist with the cream (which had been prescribed by a MD) and he muscle tested it out that I suffer from numerous low grade infections that are wreaking havoc on my immune system. The testosterone cream muscle tested out to killing off these infections. Many people think that chronic fatigue syndrome (which I don't have) is caused by a low grade infection. They fly under the radar screen and can't be detected by regular doctors and lab tests. My kinesiologist told me that I was suffering severe die-off. I went off the cream and in a week not only was I feeling better but my skin was as good as it had been in years. In the three days I was on the cream I removed a lot of very toxic crud from my body. I did another 5-6 day cycle of the cream and my face got bad but I have been off it for 5 days and my face is looking great. I am not saying that you suffer from the same problems as me, but a good applied kinesiologist would be able to detect problems in your body that regular doctors and lab/blood work cannot. As I said, you are suffering from bad internal problems. I would be suprised if your immune system is working right. I know my immune system is supposedly fine in blood/lab work but when an applied kinesiologist tests it, it tests out being shot. It is very hyper sensitive. Go see an applied kinesiologist and have him check you out. These guys can test for so many things (including parasites) just by touching you while you hold various vials of substances.