Hello, I've been suffering from exfoliative cheilitis, or the constant peeling and descamation on the lips, for the past five years, it's been a hell since then, after a year or so I got into a depression that lasted for a year. After a while I'm out of there and have better psycological and topical coping mechanism, but the skin problem it's still there nonetheless, and it's inevitable for me to feel my youth is slipping through my fingers without enjoying live fully.
The sintoms are dry lips, that are hard and like crusts, that when they fall leave raw skin underneath hurting a lot and becoming inflamed, and then the cycle repeats continously, so build up of a white line(see photo 3) then gets hard and flakes(photos 1 and 2), descamation, repeat.
Now after some time it isn't as raw and it doesn't hurt almost never and the inflamattion isn't as noticiable.
The one time it has gotten close to remision was this summer when I took 50mg of p5p to adress a high prolactin an estrogen(top margin of the reference), this lifted my spirits a lot, so much that after a couple of weeks I couldn't fall sleep, so I had to drop it. But my lips felt almost normal for this time, without almost any build up of skin. I've tried lower doses but it doesn't seem to have the same effect, and I'm worried with the insomnia thing, because it's something I've struggled for a while too.
Other health related issues, are gas, diarrhea and constipation alternating beetween each other, I think it could be some time of SIBO, but thankfully improved after following some raypeat advice, like imiting muscle protein intake, introducing more in form of milk and cheese and dropping PUFAs( they used to be pretty high in my diet).
Also I'm prone to anxiety, sweaty hands in some stressfull ocasions, cold hands and feet too.
Any insight would be really aprecciated.
The sintoms are dry lips, that are hard and like crusts, that when they fall leave raw skin underneath hurting a lot and becoming inflamed, and then the cycle repeats continously, so build up of a white line(see photo 3) then gets hard and flakes(photos 1 and 2), descamation, repeat.
Now after some time it isn't as raw and it doesn't hurt almost never and the inflamattion isn't as noticiable.
The one time it has gotten close to remision was this summer when I took 50mg of p5p to adress a high prolactin an estrogen(top margin of the reference), this lifted my spirits a lot, so much that after a couple of weeks I couldn't fall sleep, so I had to drop it. But my lips felt almost normal for this time, without almost any build up of skin. I've tried lower doses but it doesn't seem to have the same effect, and I'm worried with the insomnia thing, because it's something I've struggled for a while too.
Other health related issues, are gas, diarrhea and constipation alternating beetween each other, I think it could be some time of SIBO, but thankfully improved after following some raypeat advice, like imiting muscle protein intake, introducing more in form of milk and cheese and dropping PUFAs( they used to be pretty high in my diet).
Also I'm prone to anxiety, sweaty hands in some stressfull ocasions, cold hands and feet too.
Any insight would be really aprecciated.
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