New member — my background, eczema and chiropractic, LONG POST!
Hi everyone, my name is Justin, I’m in the USA. I’m glad there are so
many people who can share their experienes with eczema, but at the
same time it is all very overwhelming because everyone has their own
solutions to deal with E, and what works for one may not work for the
other. Anyway, I’d thought I would talk about my background. Any
feedback would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve started chiropractic care for my lower back, but he told me that
chiropractic care can be used to heal me of my eczema, to bring my
body back to "homeostatis" and be "disease free." Well I decided to
go with the treatment. During the first week or so, he informed me
about retracing, a concept that I’m still having trouble accepting to
this day. He told me that as I go through the process, I may get
symptions that I have experienced in the past that I know longer had,
as the my body "goes back" to the original state of health before my
"diseased state." Sure enough, as the weeks went by, my old body
childhood rash started to show up my forehands, than my upper arms,
then my thighs, then my butt cheeks, and then finally on my chest and
back. Needless to say that I was very distressed to see this happen
again. I wanted to stop treatment, but if i did, I’m still left with
what the chiropractor has done to me. He says I need to have faith to
see the rash go away. In the three or four months I’ve taking
chiropractic I’ve seen the worse of my childhood rash, I really hope
I’m near the end of this "RETRACING" period. I’m crossing my fingers
and hoping it goes through. I’ll update this board with any new
results i get, because I believe a unbiased documenation of
chiropractic and its effect on eczema is very important for everyone
to see.
From the www.talkeczema.com website, a lot of people plugged a product
called salcura. Here’s how I’m doing with it so far:
I’ve sprayed the salcura on my itchy areas of my skin–hands, chest,
legs. It does seem to relieve the itching fairly quickkly–but I
don’t know if this is the placebo effect or not. In the past when I
need to deal with itches like these, I scratch it a little bit and
wait it out, or if the skin get really red, I put an ice pack on it.
But I suppose the salcura is the easier solution in this case.
However, the salcura doesn’t relieve the intense itching I had on my
gut. I’ve just wondering if the anti-itch spray from Eucrein or any
other over the counter product does the same thing for much much less.
The Salcura hasn’t done anything to clear the skin so far. I only
wish I could get the results from the website and ebay auction. I
also don’t like the shoddy tiny spray bottle…I tried to put in my
tote bag, and it leaked out a bit and I just wasted a lot of the
spray. The stupid bottle needs to be upright. $30 USD is sure a lot
money for a tiny 100mL bottle.
Overall, I’m not that happy with the product, but I believe I should
try it at least for a month to get a true assessment of the product.
I don’t have enough to last a month, so I guess I’ll need to dole out
another $30. It would be great if there was very similar product in
the US.