Lichen simplex chronicus help!

Firstly, many years ago, I knew a woman who was having weird symptoms.  She saw many doctors in her area, but none was able to diagnosis her and help her.  She used to be a nurse, and she really thought that perhaps she was dying.  She began expanding her search area for doctors.  She ended up leaving the state to seek medical advice from other doctors.  She eventually ended up in Boston where lo and behold, she was finally diagnosed.  She had Fibromyalgia.  This was in the days before it was widely known, and before it became a wastebasket diagnosis.  She found help and started to make progress although of course was never "cured."  She did find a manageable life, however, after she was properly diagnosed and treated.

Secondly, I know another woman right now who has been complaining about the most horrible leg and back pain for years and years.  She went to many doctors, but none helped her.  Usually, she was just told to "lose weight."  True, she was overweight, but she was not so overweight that it could cause the type of pain she described to me.  Anyway, she finally saw a doctor within the last few months who really took her seriously and sent her to specialists for a lot of testing to be done.

Turned out she is very ill.  She has a degeniritive bone disease, compressed discs in her back, and now they found something in her colon that is being biopsied.  I cannot help but think that if only the doctors she saw for years had really taken her symptoms seriously, she may not be in this situation now.  She is only fifty-three years old.  It is so sad.

The upshot is that most doctors are not worth the ink printed on their licenses, and I am afraid the situation is only getting worse.  The people I have seen in the last few years who are getting into medical school now could NEVER have gotten in thirty years ago or even twenty years ago.  The schools graduate them now, and then they are let loose on the public, and most of them are useless.  If you want to find a really good doctor, one who can fully diagnose you and help you, you must be willing to find him/her, and that may mean leaving your city and/or leaving your state.  Some of the better doctors in the country are in Boston.  If you can find some specialists there with whom you can make an appointment and go, then you may finally find help.  Given the way you are suffering, it is worth the money to go to Boston or wherever you must in order to find help.  Good luck!!!

For now, try being patient with SJW. As I mentioned before, it may even take more than 6 weeks to feel the benefits, as other people I have helped started getting their sleep back after only 12. It's not because I was successful in only 6 weeks that it will be the same for you. And because everyone reacts differently to medication, in the end, it is also possible although unlikely that SJW won't work at all.

You would have to be extremely lucky to fall on practicioner, whether conventional or alternative that would have the instantaneous solution to LSC. The science is just so incomplete at the time. But we have to go with what appears to be most probable at the time, and as you have read by now, Staphylococcus Aureus has to be the most likely culprit for a majority of patients. And if that is indeed the case in your own condition, such an infection is tough-to-beat and we can only hope your body's immune capabilities along with the help of SJW's antibiotic properties will eventually gain the upper hand.

If you want to consider other substances that might help combat resistant strains of SA, you may want to read about other natural molecules that may work better in your particular case. For example, I have read that Berberine (which is found in Golden Seal as well as many traditional herbs from Chinese medicine) may also be helpful.

Otherwise and as you already know, you are probably limited to the conventional band-aid like treatments of conventional medicine that include various steroid-based creams. They did nothing good for me over 20 years, except temporarily help relieve the itch.

I wish you courage!

G

So what I suggest is that do not , note do not take tention or more pressure even if you are working professional also.

Take citrizen tablet at night one and use one lotion named ELCON .

First you boil a little amount of water and then soak a cotton mix the lotion and then apply on the area and keep it tied by some tape.

Remember you need to change the tape by every 24 hrs.

I am sure you will cure.

Hi Katie, I am experiencing the exact same thing as you I've been bed ridden for two weeks now it's so bad I forced mysejf to go to work some days in torturous pain I cry every day putting on the steroids burns so bad we should keep in touch and help eachother let me kno how yours is doing thankyou

hi Katie

i have also been suffering with LSC for the last 19 years, during that time it has fluctuated in severity. i couldn't say that i've noticed any particular reason for a bad run of it except it definitely gets worse when i am stressed, i think that's true for any skin condition. i managed mine wit steroid ointment but that's not great, there was one thing that worked though which was gabapentin, an anti epileptic drug. the problem with that was though it made me a bit of a zombie and if i didn't have a professional job i think i could have stuck with it but i stopped taking it as i was finding it hard to do my work. apparently here is another drug similar with less of those side effects which i plan to try out called pregabalin. failing that exercise even when you feel like you cant as it actually has beneficial effects if you stick at it. Anyway i hope some of what i have typed helps, i know what a complete misery this condition is, before i hot it i was bubbly, active, confident, these days it is a struggle to get through each day. good luck