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Janelle's log
Bad news. She is very sick and needs a miracle. :'(
She has passed away. We are all heartbroken. I will be forever grateful for God putting them in our life. She was the definition of love your neighbor as yourself.
I'm so sorry, Janelle. I wonder what went wrong. That's awful.
Thank-you. I wonder too.
Hey there @janelle525,
I think that it's your posts that I have been reading on the RP forum. I made the connection because of the "buttcrack" that you think is psoriasis, haha.
That is actually my main issue: psoriasis (you can read my log here). I have it on many spots (face, beard, scalp, ears, and recently some new spots on the body), and despite trying different things, it doesn't improve and just slowly gets worse, I feel.
I'm currently not doing the low vitamin A and trying other strategies (mainly low carb and antifungal, but it doesn't seem to work), but I might come back to that at some point. I was wondering about your "buttcrack" since you started this approach? I wonder because I too have what I call a "buttcrack" but I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, so...
How would you describe it? Mine is like a "red line that starts a bit above the anus and goes up in the intergluteal cleft" (sorry for the details, lol).
I've been on a low-carb diet (not strictly low vitamin A but never over 50% RDA per day) since September. I started some biofilm disruptors and antifungals then, and since March, I upped my game by adding some new ones and also starting retention enemas with antifungals too. Two weeks ago, I started itraconazole, and I feel that the "buttcrack pain" (I would touch it or "stretch it" and it could hurt, feel "inflamed or raw") has decreased.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I'll keep experimenting. I was curious about your buttcrack story because I wonder if mine is a form of inverse psoriasis (and yours could be too?).
Thanks for your time!
You know, a while back Ourania was talking about that idea of chilling the groin area. Ourania is sure an amazing resource for interesting ideas! We're lucky to have her here.
This week I took a long, hot, sweaty walk in some jeans that I bought second-hand. I'd only washed them once, they were perfumed and blue and on the newish side. At the end of the walk we went to dinner (none of this was planned to well haha). So I sat there like a sweat ball.
Well, I ended up with a rash in the groin area. I know I've posted about "acanthosis nigrican" "AN" here on Janelle's thread. I found that this rash happened exactly in the more pigmented area which I have self diagnosed "AN". I've read that AN can occur in the butt crack. What is this mysterious AN? Is it food (or clothing?) pigments that kind of got left behind (literally haha). It's such a sweaty zone. Maybe food pigments try to leave with sweat and are re-absorbed. I've thought to myself that I'd like to try lemon juice on the area, but keep forgetting to try it. VA is a food pigment but there are others too. Pigments are problematic. Obese people get AN in all sorts of folds on the body. It definitely seems to be about sweat IMO.
I'm trying very hard to make sure to get a shower ASAP after sweating.
I wonder if maybe Ourania's groin-icing idea has something to do with detoxifying this hot and sweaty zone. As it would be the opposite of what causes the issue. Maybe it just works by bringing extra circulation to the area to clean it up. Yeast like certain temperatures (if there is a yeast connection)
I wonder, if what is going on in the pantyline (for me) or the buttcrack (for you) is "frustrated detox" maybe the answer is to have something absorbent there and change it very frequently. I wouldn't expect this to be an overnight fix, but a very long term one. I suppose in the olden days the answer was something like talc or corn silk powder to absorb the bad stuff. Talc is bad news, cornsilk may have VA. Cotton is probably good. One thing that I've seen mentioned in the AN topics is that it smells bad, which could mean detox I suppose. It does seem this is a problem of areas that are hidden such as folds of the body in the obese.
I was just trying to get some sunshine on the parts and was thinking about how one of my newish problems is armpit nerve pain. I have a small amount of AN in the armpit area. It really makes me wonder about the nastiness that AN might represent. And the badness of sweat being re-absorbed. Just think how your body feels after it finally got rid of something and there it is back again! Oh for cripes sake!
Another problem area for me is my feet: My renauds still lingers. Feet: another area that gets sweaty and stays sweaty.
My neighbor is a very hard worker in the garden and very healthy despite her high VA diet. We were once chatting about how hot it was and she mentioned she showers multiple times a day.
My mind is working yet again and wondering if fur (which all other mammals are covered with) has another reason: absorbency and wicking. Lambswool is great for feet (undyed tho).
https://dermnetnz.org/topics/intertrigo
NSFW pics, a pretty good summation of the mainstream ideas about such things.
It does appear that baddies can set up shop too.
So just for people wondering what caused my friend to die. Apparently she had a long battle with cancer that they didn't tell us about. Sounds like her liver failed as a result of that but I don't think she was receiving cancer treatments at the time? I don't know.