It feels the same as previously-very dry. The dryness now seems to be extending up my cheeks to just below my eye area and there is no sign of the feedback mechanism kicking in yet; the skin is still not producing its own oils.
The flakes seem smaller, so I don't look as grim as previously and I am really happy with the colour of my skin right now.
I seem to keep catching areas on my chin by scratching and the skin is so fragile, it bleeds, which is why I have lots of bleeding areas like this...
I will hit one week "No-Mo" tomorrow. It has been a tough week. If you compare the photo above with the previous photos over the week, I don't think there has been all that much improvement.
I am seriously thinking about going back to moisturisers, as I don't honestly think that the experiement has been that successful, but I do want to give it a whole week for the sake of fairness.
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Hi Louise! I would give it more than a week. I am a month into MW and though I'm not cured yet my skin seems to be doing better day by day slowly. The blogs that I have been reading say it can take months. I feel the skin needs to naturally heal. I believe the skin gets addicted to moisturizers just as steroids. Don't give up yet! I just keep telling myself that I can do this and things will get better! Have a great day!
But people do heal even if they use moisturisers - look at Juliana. I wonder if one could wean off them. You once said you were using very little on your face, Louise. i use none on my body, and neck, but the face ... simply to be able to speak (I have a speaking job...)I could not manage it. So, I failed the NoMo approach, but have decided to cut right back and try it that way - just a little once a day, and then reducing the amount, or stretching the hours between the application...
hey, I stopped using moisturiser am still going through RSS and it was hell at first and well it still is but from not using moisturiser parts of me that were disaster areas have actually miraculously healed pretty fast - and lost the redness
im only on my first couple of months of withdrawal so we'l see how it goes
much love to you girl, this is the worst thing i have ever been through we will all get through this though!
Same symptoms as mine. I used clobestol prop (dermovate) on my armpits during my japan trip. Came back and started TS withdrawal and moisturizer withdrawal.
Flared, itched, alot of redness, oozing and scratching, plenty of flaking and dead dry skin. Now they are all gone, with only raised bumps looking like elephant skin and are more resistant to scratch and tearing.
Not sure how long you are going to do this experiment, but I do hope you stay long enough to see the actual benefits of skin toughening (which for my armpits it took about 1 month.. with 3 weeks of repeated hell).
Cheers!
-Leslie
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Well done on nearly a week mate, it looks blooming uncomfortable. I was just looking over the blog and on 25th October 2013 you posted that on day 5 of a facial flare it was dying down of its own accord anyway. I do worry about people attempting MW and putting themselves through a lot of pain and discomfort if their skin either doesn't improve or if it would have done at the same rate anyway but less uncomfortably. I shall have to patiently await the verdict of your experiment :)
Hugs xx
Louise, you are so brave for trying this experiment! Especially in the dead of winter... I gave up after a couple days of pain, though right now my skin is so dry I might as well not be using any! Hope your experiment goes well. I'm sure it will as we will all eventually heal. Best of luck.
It takes at least a month for normal skin to fully adjust to moisturizer withdrawal. Let alone tsw damaged skin, or skin in the midst of a flare. However mw makes the entire process much better in the long run and as per the Japanese studies, shortens tsw.
I would hesitate to place Juliana as an example of successful tsw with concurrent use of moisturizers. She continues to suffer from skin irritation on various parts of her body, while heading into the three year mark. At her age after completing my tsw I was 100% fully healed at 15 months, without needing any moisturizers whatsoever. I cannot fathom going at this for years.
Hi Louise, thanks for the smile
:-)
I think you have done amazingly well to reach day 6 of "No Mo".
I have been experimenting with it on my legs and although my legs aren't flaking hugely (the first in years)they are extremely dry and feel very tight around the knees.
I am going to continue to see how things go but at the moment i am not convinced about "No Mo"! Certainly couldn't entertain the idea of discontinuing on my face and neck. If i had a hat Louise i would take it off to you!!
Love, light & peace
Siegfried x
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