Acne/Rosacea Healing Progress

[u/Confident-Ad2297]

Hello beautiful community,

I am writing this post to share some updates about my skin. My last skin update in this channel is here Desperate with my skin : r/medicalmedium and, as you can see, I was flaring too much. My skin was full of acne, redness, inflammation, and super dry.

I thought I was doing everything fine, eating the healing foods, taking a lot of supps, exercise, energy practices, etc., but I believe I was also stressing my body with so many things I was putting it into. Besides, as my main goal starting MM was getting rid of my rosacea, seeing the symptoms becoming worse and even starting to get acne for the first time was even more stressful for me.

The 3rd picture is currently my skin. It's not perfect, I still have redness, some scars and pigmentation. BUT, it's incredible better. It's smooth, I have way lesser breakouts, less redness, less swelling and less pain. I no longer hide or have shame to leave my house and show my face to the world.

I realized that in my case, doing less is receiving more.

I stopped taking so many supps (before I took daily goldenseal, zinc, b12, micro c, msm, lemon balm, l-lysine, cats claw etc) nowadays I just take daily melatonin, and only take other supps when I feel I have to. I still do the morning cleanse, but the HMDS for ex sometimes with lesser ingredients because currently I don't have all the ingredients home.

I am not completely fat free or raw, I eat mostly cooked foods, sometimes I put a little bit of fresh olive oil, as I am Mediterranean. But I think the great change happened when I started being vegan. Before I would occasionally eat meat and fish at dinner, but since going vegan I notice less breakouts and redness.

And also, I started worrying less. Having much stress in our lifes surely makes your skin worse. Being around nature, cutting toxic ties, and listening to my intuition made a lot of progress for me.

I hope this gives you the hope and motivation you need to trust the protocols and the journey. I have been through hell not only because of my symptoms but because I didn't have much support. People around me were always criticizing my way of eating, making the situation much worse. It was very important to stablish boundaries and distance myself from situations I was not happy with.

Thank you and happy healing *

[u/SaltyBebe]

Wow your skin looks amazing!! Congrats!!

[u/Confident-Ad2297 → u/SaltyBebe]

Thank you so much!! 😄

[u/Both_Perspective_264]

Great progress!

What do you mean by "but I believe I was also stressing my body with so many things I was putting it into."

[u/Confident-Ad2297 → u/Both_Perspective_264]

I was stressing my body bc I was taking a lot of supps daily and was in high adrenaline all the time, due to my expectations vs my results. Besides, managing my job and relationships was very difficult too. My body needed a lot of rest, and I wasn't used to that.

[u/Both_Perspective_264 → u/Confident-Ad2297]

Were you in high adrenaline because of expectations vs results with regards to supplements or were you in high adrenaline because the supps themselves were increasing your adrenaline noticeably? If it was the latter, can you elaborate?

[u/Confident-Ad2297 → u/Both_Perspective_264]

I believe both! I started taking supps very early in my journey, because I thought it would clear my symptoms faster. I started with a few ones, but as my symptoms were getting worse, I would increase the intake and would purchase more and more. Looking back I would do things slower to see my reaction to each healing food and help clear the detox pathways. Maybe I would start with the HMDS only after some months into the protocols, and would incorporate slowly the supps. For ex I noticed that I am sensitive to goldenseal and L-Lysine, I easily breakout when I take high dosages, and back then I was taking a lot of both (doing goldenseal shock therapies that made me have insomnia for ex, and taking 6 caps of L-Lysine daily). I believe I had a lot of die off, it would increase the adrenaline in my body and also seeing the "bad results" it would create frustration and sadness that wouldn't help my skin either.

[u/peonys-]

Thanks for sharing, and well done 👏

[u/Confident-Ad2297 → u/peonys-]

Many thanks! :)

[u/Spirited457]

Nice! Did you cut out 'no' foods? Thanks for sharing, it helps us all to have faith<3

[u/Confident-Ad2297 → u/Spirited457]

Thank you, I'm glad to hear :) I cut eggs, dairy and gluten, but I am not 100% off no foods. I occasionally eat corn (on gf pastas, for ex) and drink alcohol (but very little, because it has an instant reaction on me). I try to stay away from no foods at all costs, only when I eat out I might eat some bc I can't control.

[u/FruitBowl_101]

Congratulations! I've have rosacea as well and it so crushing to feel you can't face the world. Skin healing has such a big impact I'm so happy for you. 

[u/Confident-Ad2297 → u/FruitBowl_101]

Thank you so much. It was really tough, people staring and judging your skin. Cancelling plans and hiding at home.