Re: The only thing I'm worried about
1.) Yea, but I'm at a stage where I want to be peeling them. I had 6 months of nightmare (basically), so I do want to have a normalish life at the moment, at least for some time. I'll be going on a big, 3.5 week vacation with my wife in about 1.5 months (coming over to the west of US, by the way, who wants to meet? :-)), and I want that to be as normal and relaxing as possible.
2.) I know what Protopic is and how it works. I was only trying to describe my build up.
And it's pretty unclear what kind of trauma can or might have caused EC. Maybe using lip products and rubbing them together for years and years was enough trauma. Or maybe trauma does not even have anything to do with it. It does of course seem very plausable that some people (you for one) got this because they were biting their lips, but there isn't any proof that it is the case.
Anyway, your treatment or a variation of it will probably be the next thing I will try, but not before my vacation. :-)