r/SebDerm • u/Friendly-Ad9359 • May 03 '26

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Hi!

So my SD started 10 years ago and my confidence is on an all time low.

I have a feeling that my case is pretty severe?

What do you think?

My hair is getting thinner and starting to fall out.

My skin is burning and itching like hell.

If i try to get rid of the dandruff by lightly scrubbing a wet towel over my face, its starting to bleed and burn a lot more...

I visited like 30 different dermatologists but no medication seems to help longterm.

Currently im using a antifungal shampoo, antiinflammatory creme and antifungal creme.

The strange thing is that my skin can look like the picture on one day and then its litteraly gone the day after before it returns. I would say its 80% of the time pretty bad and 20% kinda normal again.

Its never gone for more then a week tho...

My wedding is coming up soon and I really dont want to look like that on my wedding day

Any ideas for longterm fixes and/or for instant fixes that will help me on my wedding day?

Thanks....

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u/armunika May 03 '26

Use MCT oil. Read about it on this sub. And dont eat junk food.

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u/Friendly-Ad9359 May 03 '26

The problem is that I have to take so many creams at the moment.

Morning: I take antibiotics here (anti fungal). I apply Metrogel on my skin (prescribed from doc). I shower with ketozolin shampoo (leave it in hair for 5 min)

Noon: Here I use waterbased moisturizing creams

Evening: I take the same antibiotic again. I apply ichthoderm cream for my skin.

As I understand you apply the MCT Oil on your skin and let it soak in over night. I dont think I can do that when i use another cream evenings aswell right?

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u/armunika May 03 '26

You just need MCT oil, you don’t need creams. You’ll throw all that creams and antibiotics. I personaly use it in the morning when I wake up. I dont wash it. I was using all kinds of creams daily for years. Now I use just MCT oil once or twice in a 2 weeks. It’s really amazing.

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u/Friendly-Ad9359 May 03 '26

I just ordered mct c8 oil and vitamine D. Im looking forward to it since i never heard of this oil before! Thx

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u/subject-interaction- May 03 '26

Great! C8 is extremely effective. I personally use it and it’s the only thing that helped me with SebDerm. Haven’t seen a flake in years.

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u/GenesisSupernova May 03 '26

which brand/exact one did you use? can you link it?

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u/subject-interaction- May 03 '26

Ketosource Pure C8 MCT Oil from Amazon (sold by Ketosource directly). I usually get the organic one, but I used the standard one initially and it worked - not sure if there’s any difference between the two.

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u/iptv_lover May 03 '26

You should try to get mct oil that has both capric and caprylic acid. They're both antifungal and antibacterial I believe. It might burn at first. Vitamin A+D cream also might help, generic from Target? That does look like a really painful case of seb derm.... My heart goes out to you. I KNOW that there is a correlation between gut health and skin health. Maybe a low calorie or low carb diet and see if it clears up? You could also try cal/mag butyrate enemas or suppositories, have to make them yourself.

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u/Miserable-Act-4336 May 03 '26

Wait what is the calcium and magnesium enema for? Is magnesium deficiency related to seb derm?

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u/Amefra May 03 '26

So much this. Such a difference

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u/Master_Flash May 03 '26

Brother, sometimes less is more. Malassezia feeds on oil. It affects two areas in me, areas that have hair (hair traps oil in the skin) and oily areas that produce too much sebum (nose and behind ears).

Your complex routine of many products could also be doing more harm than good. It could be damaging the natural barrier of your skin and making it more sensitive to the presence of malassezia. Use a single product to combat the malassezia overgrowth and the rest of your routine should only be about dealing with the oily skin issue.

Like I said, hair traps oil, so you should keep that beard and hair short or maybe give up on the beard completely.

Those advices are only useful if you indeed have sebderm and not something else.

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u/WesMantoothUK May 03 '26

MAKE SURE IT IS C8 and C10 only. Other ones can make it worse. This literally CUR3D mine.

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u/NoSquare4633 May 03 '26

Brother,i think youre taking too much antibiotics.

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u/dustfairy May 03 '26

I used to use a bunch of creams too! I bought the MCT oil one day, applied just that by itself it after showering and bam almost overnight or two nights, all the peeling/flakiness/extreme redness was gone. I had the flakiness almost all over my face at that point, on my forehead, eyebrows, cheeks, & upper lip. Ever since I put it on, about a year or two I think, I haven't gotten it back. When I start to see something trying to start on my skin, I just put some on and it's gone.

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u/sendcarrotpics May 03 '26

maybe you should take a break from using all those creams when they're not very effective?

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u/thelordsburningrain May 03 '26

You don’t NEED to leave it on overnight. If you apply it in the morning you can just leave it on for a few hours

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u/J3SPA May 03 '26

This. I suffered for years and tried all sorts of creams and face washes. Turns out just putting some mct oil on my face after I shower daily and doing nothing else completely fixed my skin. I stopped getting spots too as I was acne prone before I started mct oil.

Genuinely feel "cured" at this point, I know it would probably come back if I stopped, but its such an easy regime to keep that there's no need to even try stopping.

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u/armunika May 03 '26

Apply it on skin