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Hello, I’m following that method for 144 days, and I don’t have dry skin around lips. Rather the opposite because Aquaphor softens from body heat and sort of spreads on the chin etc. So I have to wipe it off the chin with paper towel. Maybe you have some cracking in the corners? I have that and I don’t think it’s a problem, it easily disappears when you are not applying too much on the regular skin in the corners (but applying on the lips in that area).

@Ajit Soman Hello! I don’t see any visible improvements by now. But I continue applying Aquaphor! Only in April/June I started going into sun, exercise, healthy food and taking vitamins. UV and vitamins can be essential for healing skin. Now I take multivitamins, Omega 3, vitamins A, E and D3. And when I started last summer I applied very thick layer of Aquaphor, maybe too thick, that time I didn’t realise this. They say oxygen from air can penetrate thru Aquaphor to skin and this is important for healing. Now I apply not very thick layer. Also on Reddit some people say that they healed in year and a half: https://www.reddit.com/r/SkincareAddiction/comments/ic3igi/skin_concerns_has_anyone_successfully_cure/gh4bjfx/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Here is guide for constant moisture method by Daniel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7crA0q11s

@Peter Thank you for your reply. I definitely check the

@Ajit Soman Good luck, get well!

Hi. A French compatriot here. Thank you for sharing your experience with this nightmare. Would you mind please sharing your before and after pictures? Thanks again

Daniel have said that first positive results were after 6 months of constant moisture method. And he was cured in about the next 6 months

Hey Dillan! Sorry I didn't see your message on the Forum, a lot of times the notifications of when someone posts go to my spam, and I don't see it. I don't frequently check the forum for updates, and usually rely on the email notification. Sorry about that!

To answer your questions: For the second half of my recovery, I always "felt" that my lips needed aquaphor. That is, I always had it with me and always used it whenever my lips "felt" like they were getting dry. It's just a feeling I would get, and if I didn't put anything on them they would be so uncomfortable I could barely stand it. To switch from Aquaphor to the lip balm I had to find a lip balm that was EASILY applicable. In fact I would put Aquaphor on first and then use the lip balm, to try to get my lips used to using it. It would work better in the summer if you are in a cold climate, because the lip balm would stay warmer in your pocket and would be easier to apply. This doesn't mean you can't do it in the winter though. Honestly it's just a feeling game you're playing, and sort of training your lips. This didn't happen for me until September or October of that year though. That means that my peeling stopped around April/Early May, and from May until Sept/Oct my lips didn't peel anymore, but they were still really inflamed. So for 6-7 months I continually used aquaphor/sun/steroid cream (very mildly--well you know that schedule by now I assume), and this was all while my lips didn't peel. Only after I felt the inflammation going down on my lips did I feel like I could introduce a lip balm.

TO THIS DAY I still use a lip balm, as I have always said, and I have always needed lip balm. I use it several times a day, probably once an hour or so, mainly out of habit. But there are times when my lips STILL feel uncomfortably dry and if I don't put lip balm on them, then it will be unbearable for me until I do. They don't ever peel or anything, but the feeling of them being dry never goes away. I suppose I could ween myself off of lip balm if I wanted to, but I don't really want to because I do like using it and I'm just not that worried about it to be honest. I suppose that is something I could try to work on though.

One thing I have noticed, which I think I mentioned in the video, is that if I ever get nervous over something or stressed about a situation--INSTANTLY my lips will feel dry. This is how I figured out that it's your mind causing the trauma to your lips, to distract you from your thoughts. This is our coping mechanism, because when you are worried and focused on healing your lips, your mind is off everything else that is worrying you.

You said you are at 4 months, so I did 6-7 months...so I would imagine soon you will be at the point where you can slowly try switching. That dry feeling never goes away completely, but it does MOSTLY go away over a long long time. Today I feel that feeling only a few times a day, and it's immediately relieved once I put lip balm on for quite a long time.

If you are trying to phase out Aquaphor to another lip balm and you're not getting a good response, try a different lip balm. My lips absolutely hate most lip balms, and it's almost impossible for me to find one that provides exactly what they need. Right now the perfect one is from whole foods , which is the whole foods brand also: Whole Foods Organic Peppermint Lip Balm.

I hope this helps, and please let me know if you have any more questions! Sorry again for not seeing your message on the Forum!

Daniel

@Daniel Miller Hello Daniel, I’m on day 63 of applying Aquaphor. I have two questions. 1. How thick the layer of Aquaphor is needed? Sometimes I apply it thick and it’s whitish light pink color, and sometimes the layer is thinner and lips are red colored, like inflammated. 2. I have completely no visible buildup on my lips. Is it okay or I’m rubbing buildup off while applying Aquaphor not even noticing it? Thank you for the forum and your work.

Thank you for your message Colin! It's great to "see" you again, ha ha. Yeah I agree there are so many things that can happen to your lips after your body decides it doesn't need to focus on them anymore to distract you...so how you deal with addressing those issues is important too, but also another struggle we have to go through. Thankfully nothing appeared to happen to me during that time, but if it did my body was able to resolve itself.

As far as moisturizing all of the time, it's a VERY interesting question, which literally played a key part to me figuring out that it's the bodies way of distracting itself from whatever a person may be going through. I can literally go for hours and hours where I'm fully immersed in a conversation or movie or something, but the I even think about my lips, they instantly feel dry, but if I pay attention, I know that moments before they didn't "feel" dry. And I have recently started to do tests with myself to wait and not use lip balm when I have that "feeling" and for some time, it can be minutes to an hour or so, I won't think about it or need it again.

It happens all of the time for stressful situations. It's a way my body distracts itself. Say I'm about to meet someone new, or tell someone I know about an idea I have, anytime there is stress involved I always have this inherit "need" to put lip balm on. But as I have become extremely self-aware over the last few months I am discovering more and more what these reasons are. And they fundamentally return to stress-involved situations. (I feel I should add this to my story, as you helped me understand it even more just by asking those questions.

And yes I've been tested many times, and even had very in-depth tests, and everything always comes back normal. There was one test that said my liver functions were a bit higher than normal, but that was just because I was very depressed and going through a really hard time in my life, so I was drinking absurds amount. Amounts that would astonish most people. Which I shouldn't be proud of, but I am more interested in to see just how much my body and mind are able to handle. But I'm now at a point in my life where I've discovered so much, that I never have to (or want) to drink more than a glass or two of wine.

Hope that helps a bit :)

Unfortunately those are the only things I can't recover from my site deleting itself last time, and I didn't keep the hard drive they were originally on. :( however I took videos with a pretty good camera, so it should be good enough to screen shot, obviously not the best though. Sorry about that!

I didn't ever take a shower to "takeoff the buildup" I would wait until it came off naturally by itself, and if it came off while I was lighting putting the aquaphor on it, then I wouldn't worry about it...but I was very careful. And you just put the steroid cream over the top, eventually the skin will come off and you can put the steroid cream directly on the lips at that point.

Hey Tim!

Well, I'm wondering if you are talking all day? The only reason I could see your lips never building skin up would be if you are talking constantly. Have you been to the dermatologist to rule anything else out that would cause your lips to be raw constantly? Does this happen when you don't use Aquaphor? Perhaps you have an allergy to Aquaphor and should use a different product? I didn't experience unless I was at my call center job and talking on the phone constantly, but it was just my inner lips that gave me a lot of problems where they touched. My outer lips didn't hurt.

I see that they did build up skin when you used lip balm, so I'm wondering if you should switch to a product that isn't so hard as a lip balm, but isn't Aquaphor, but is a creamy kind of texture?

I don't know how much I would advice apple cider vinegar on the lips, it seems like it's a pretty harsh substance to use. Maybe try another product, and avoid that for a couple weeks and see what happens, and let me know. :)

@Daniel Miller Hey Daniel,

thank you for your answer. I have been to about 5 dermatologists now and ruled out any allergies or fungal infections. I also got my blood tested about 1 year back, everything is normal.

I am not talking much, and I think I explained myself a bit wrong. I'm not completely sure if my lips dont build up skin when I moisturize them, it's more like the build-up is just so soft and weak that it peels off everytime I take a shower or brush my teeth, no matter how careful I am.

I had the same experience with vaseline and pretty much any moisturizer out there. With organic lip balm or some organic moisturizer my lips build up more skin when doing the constant moisture than when I apply vaseline or aquaphor, which I think is because the lips get more air that way. However the build-up still falls off at least once a day because it is so soft.

One dermatologist I have been to acutally said that too much creme is bad, since my lips need air to breath and fully heal. After 4 months of not putting anything on them the EC spread pretty much like you explained in your video so I stopped that. However, I don't think the constant moisture is the way to go for me, because the build-up peels multiple times a day when doing this.

I got the idea of apple cider vinegar from someone from curezone, who claimed to had gotten cured by using it. I have also seen improvements from this. After all, it works antibacterial, antifungal and therefore anti-inflammatory. It's also known to help with psoriasis.

So at the moment I am still applying the ACV 2-3 times a day to my lips (but just a really small amount) and I put on aquaphor for a few hours a day. That time seems to be enough to have them moisturize, but leave the build-up strong enough to not just fall off instantly.

I am trying not to focus on my lips too much, which actually seems to help a little. I always find that when I go outside or meet people, they actually get more dry and worse because I focus on them even more since I feel embarassed. So I'm trying my best to not focus on my lips, which is really hard to be honest.

As soon as summer starts I will try and get a lot of sun, since it also seems to help.

@Daniel Miller This is true because my lips get dry when my anxiety kicks in when I'm in public places.

@shane.king8 Hey Shane,

I would say the first signs of healing were related to when they quit building up so much. It was when I was using constant moisture on them. It only took a few weeks. Yes it's in some of the last videos, which I haven't watched in forever...so I've probably forgotten a lot of things in there.

Doing "normal" things took a few months, and I was very careful for about 6 months. From July - December, as it's my "Finally cured" video.

You should read "the power of your subconscious mind" by Joseph Murphy, I'm reading it and it is saying everything I have known. It's amazing, and will help anyone with this condition heal from it. As long as you believe you will be cured, then you will. It's as simple as that.

A lot of times we may not realize the situations we are in that are stressful or anxiety ridden, but we really are. And thus our lips start to take our attention so the "back" of our minds don't have to dwell on those things...it's your minds way of saying, "Hey focus on me! Heal me, something isn't right!" and if it's emotional damage and you don't listen, then it manifests a physical one so you will. You may have thought life was going well, but maybe it wasn't the path you were supposed to be going...you really have to look within to find the answer out, but it's there. :) we go through these struggles for a reason, and sometimes the reason is so we can really enjoy the good times in our life. If we didn't have the bad ones, then the good ones wouldn't feel so great.

@Daniel Miller Thanks. I guess i dont do constant moisture because i hate how my lips look when they go all white and mush They feel better, but look worse. And also at my job its not possible for me to moisturise/reapply constantly.

It might be something that i have to try again though, because what iam doing isn't working.

I'll look into that book. I have watched some videos on you tube about the power of the mind. I try so hard to think positively. But i guess some days depression just comes out of nowhere and i have days where i feel hopeless and out of fight. But for the most part i really and trying to have hope and belief.

I'll just add for anyone else who may read this, when i spoke to you earlier you told me that your diet wasn't gluten free when you healed and isn't now.

Hey Molly!

I definitely got a similar thing to you, but I don't remember them being painful and irritated most of the time, they were just yellow and crusty. I did have the yellow liquid though for sure, but it wasn't painful.