Ok well you are still doing your treatment. So whether someone is putting something on their lips or not is irrelevant. Until you completely stop your treatment and your lips remain, you are just managing. By your own standards that is.
Whether the treatment is oral or topical makes absolutely no difference in the logic.
But hey it's your logic. I guess you can skew it how you want.
Anyways congrats on the success or management using this treatment. Enjoy