I didn’t know I was allergic to certain foods after I took a allergy test it all made sense so I have eczema from my bad eating and the steroids suppressed that instead of doctors telling me to fix my diet for my eczema so it would go away they gave me the steroids which induced a new type of rash now I have to wait till the skin heals on it’s own and avoid trigger foods of other skin irritants like perfumes and tight clothing
In my view UVB can give you a break and lower your symptoms, but UVB therapy also lowers the skin cell proliferation rate, so in that sense it is not helpful for healing TSW. Also you have to be very very careful with it. The place you go to needs to understand that TSW skin is super sensitive and thinned, so the exposure time should be very low. In my point of view Red Light Therapy is a better options (if your skin is ready for it). The effect is a lot less strong compared to CAP therapy, but you can do it at home for not too much costs. Just avoid RLT when you have an bacterial infection, when the skin is oozing and when you have irritants on the skin. I hope this is helpful.
@ thank you so much for the detailed reply and sharing your story on YT. I have an infrared light so I’m using it for a few mins a day so I’ll stick to that and good to know it’s helping (in the right dose at the right time in journey) . Would love CAP but the waiting list in UK isn’t even open and those on it I think wait along time. Huge business opportunity for them to scale up their business or a rival will swoop in and clean up the desperate clients waiting! Shame there aren’t more facilities. Maybe I should open one! I see some aesthetic clinics use a form of CAP but I’ve no idea if they are suitable for TSW skin, especially as mine is around my eyes, any thoughts on alternative CAP machines? With huge thanks from 🇬🇧
Hi. The CAP device used and developed in Thailand is a medical grade CAP device. It is also being used in may hospitals for chronic wound healing. So this device is much much stronger then an aesthetic grade CAP device. So the difference in results can be huge. Also the clinic in Thailand has more then 15 years experience in treating TSW skin, and this knowledge is quite specific, I can tell you. Nevertheless what I know in theory about the difference in CAP devices, I think it is really important so see what patients are reporting back to the community. I personally have not seen anyone yet who reported that their skin completely cleared up with those other CAP devices. Some reported worsening of their skin, others reported no difference and others have reported some benefits (but not clearing up their skin). I personally have tested 2 other CAP devices for 4 months in total. My only result was that small little wounds from scratching healed a bit faster. But the rest of my TSW skin stayed the same. (and this has been confirmed by some other patients who tested other cap devices). I didn't have the results at all that I did have in Thailand. I do think that other CAP devices can help with fungal infection, which gives a sudden big improvement, but the device might not be strong enough to really thicken the skin. But we'll have to wait and see, maybe there is a device out there which is strong enough and gives good results (I just haven't seen it (yet)). I hope TSW patients keep reporting their experience back to the community so that we can all learn. The device that is used in the UK clinic is also developed in Thailand. But the CE has expired, so they cannot import more of these devices. In the mean time rules and regulations for getting CE has become much more strict from MDD to MDR. For an aesthetic grade device it is much more easy to get CE, but for medical grade device it is much more difficult.
@ thank you again. Great info. I won’t try the aesthetic versions and wait for UK clinic to open its waiting list again. How frustrating that all the regulations changing are hampering them getting more machines into the country when there are so many sick people needing them.
@@TSW.healinghow do we do red light therapy at home? Is there a device we can buy online? Can you please provide the link? When my skin has oozing issue , can I still use this therapy?
So flaring isn't your body trying to heal? That's what I've been reading all along. What you said makes sense but just a bit confused. I've been dry and shedding for many months so I'm not sure whether it's linked to irritant exposure or just my body healing. My face (particularly forehead) gets the worst of it.
Correct, flaring is not the body trying to heal :) flaking is the body trying to heal. Good flaking is a good sign of healing. Redness is a sign of flaring which is caused by a trigger.
@@TSW.healing Ok makes sense. I've been flaking for well over 2 years regularly. I'm not sure if that means I'm constantly flaring or what. My face does get a bit red too sometimes but not flushing red like when I was in tsa 3 years ago. The rest of my body is dry which gets a bit pink or red when rubbed or scratched.
@@F_Arrow95how is your skin doing now? did you make any changes to your eating habits? I noticed sugar makes me so itchy which is so weird because i used to have the biggest sweet tooth.
@@dianag59 Overall better but still dealing with stubborn dry and sensitive skin in the same areas (face, around my arms and back of my knees). I'm starting to suspect fungal or Candida. I haven't made any changes to my diet and can't say sugar makes me itchy. How is your skin?
Hi! Good question :) This depends on the severity of your TSW and where you are in your healing journey (so in short : the thickness of the skin) in combination with the strength of the irritant. So when your skin is still very thinned and open, you will usually flare immediately after irritant exposure (in minutes or hours). You might walk into an old house with a lot of old dust and you see your skin becoming bright red within half an hour, for example. But when you are further in your healing journey, and your skin is already thicker and stronger, you might be able to spend and hour in the same house with nothing happening and then slowly getting red. Another example: a lady whose skin was already looking normal (so reached around 70 -75 % skin thickness). Her husband bought a new printer and put it in the bedroom. 6 weeks nothing much happened. But then she started slowly flaring. After much research and mind cracking they thought about the printer and took it away. Her skin returned to normal again and she continued her healing. So here you see: her skin was already quite strong, and didn't react immediately. But slowly over time, the irritants were too much for her skin and she started flaring. So this illustrates how much detective work is needed to avoid irritant exposure. :D It is really not easy at all. Light irritant exposure might only cause some itchiness. Stronger irritant exposure can give little bumps. Stronger irritant exposure gives redness and inflammation. Very strong irritant exposure even brings back oozing and swelling. On top of that there are also other trigger that can cause flares, like: not enough sleep, the menses for the ladies or pregnancy, alcohol use, stress, change of the season (usually in fall), fermented foods and spicy foods, food allergens (highly individual). Learning about these triggers and observing your skin can teach you a lot and give you a much better healing rate. Best of luck!
@@TSW.healing What about if you're constantly dry and shedding? Is that just the normal tsw cycle or something is triggering it? I'm not bright red or oozing anymore but always dry and don't see any smooth skin. Currently 26 months tsw and been dealing with addiction for over 3 years. Pretty much been dry since early 2021.
@@TSW.healingare all fermented foods best avoided? I have an excess of Staphylococcus aureus on my skin and I am still going through tsw (about 6 years now started complete ts cessation). There are studies strongly suggesting different types of Bacillus such as Bacillus subtilis can wipe out the staph colonies. I’ve ordered bacillus probiotics that are 11 billion per capsule. I can provide an update on the pros and cons in a month’s time. So to further my question, are all fermeted foods because of their probiotic content? Or maybe selective probiotic content such as in supplements, are okay
I have a question does redness is still there with the dry flaking phase im actually in this period im in 19tg mouth TSW and the dry flaky period is very itchy i have also a redness but its no very red now its little bit darker and also i have another question , flare up and itching is differente ? because in TSW itching is a part of the process
Yes itching is part of the TSW process. The same when you have a wound on your skin or a scratch, at a certain point in the healing process it becomes itchy. This is the skin in the process of healing the wound, it is part of the process of healing. Irritant / allergen exposure also give itchiness. They involve a immune response and histamine release. Also a skin infection can give itchiness. So in short, there are 3 types of itchiness that can occur during TSW: 1) from healing 2) from irritant / allergen exposure 3) from skin infection. If you have redness during the dry and flaking phase, this means you have had a trigger. Darker redness means that the height of the flare has already past and the skin is calming down again. I advise you to watch video nr 2 and 3 and 4 on this channel : Phases of TSW, Triggers that delay the healing rate of TSW, Phases of Wound healing. Best of luck!
I didn’t know I was allergic to certain foods after I took a allergy test it all made sense so I have eczema from my bad eating and the steroids suppressed that instead of doctors telling me to fix my diet for my eczema so it would go away they gave me the steroids which induced a new type of rash now I have to wait till the skin heals on it’s own and avoid trigger foods of other skin irritants like perfumes and tight clothing
Hello. Just starting my TWS journey. Thanks your videos are very helpful. Do you cover UVB therapy as a treatment and/or your views on it?
In my view UVB can give you a break and lower your symptoms, but UVB therapy also lowers the skin cell proliferation rate, so in that sense it is not helpful for healing TSW. Also you have to be very very careful with it. The place you go to needs to understand that TSW skin is super sensitive and thinned, so the exposure time should be very low.
In my point of view Red Light Therapy is a better options (if your skin is ready for it). The effect is a lot less strong compared to CAP therapy, but you can do it at home for not too much costs. Just avoid RLT when you have an bacterial infection, when the skin is oozing and when you have irritants on the skin.
I hope this is helpful.
@ thank you so much for the detailed reply and sharing your story on YT. I have an infrared light so I’m using it for a few mins a day so I’ll stick to that and good to know it’s helping (in the right dose at the right time in journey) . Would love CAP but the waiting list in UK isn’t even open and those on it I think wait along time. Huge business opportunity for them to scale up their business or a rival will swoop in and clean up the desperate clients waiting! Shame there aren’t more facilities. Maybe I should open one! I see some aesthetic clinics use a form of CAP but I’ve no idea if they are suitable for TSW skin, especially as mine is around my eyes, any thoughts on alternative CAP machines? With huge thanks from 🇬🇧
Hi. The CAP device used and developed in Thailand is a medical grade CAP device. It is also being used in may hospitals for chronic wound healing. So this device is much much stronger then an aesthetic grade CAP device. So the difference in results can be huge. Also the clinic in Thailand has more then 15 years experience in treating TSW skin, and this knowledge is quite specific, I can tell you.
Nevertheless what I know in theory about the difference in CAP devices, I think it is really important so see what patients are reporting back to the community. I personally have not seen anyone yet who reported that their skin completely cleared up with those other CAP devices. Some reported worsening of their skin, others reported no difference and others have reported some benefits (but not clearing up their skin). I personally have tested 2 other CAP devices for 4 months in total. My only result was that small little wounds from scratching healed a bit faster. But the rest of my TSW skin stayed the same. (and this has been confirmed by some other patients who tested other cap devices). I didn't have the results at all that I did have in Thailand. I do think that other CAP devices can help with fungal infection, which gives a sudden big improvement, but the device might not be strong enough to really thicken the skin. But we'll have to wait and see, maybe there is a device out there which is strong enough and gives good results (I just haven't seen it (yet)). I hope TSW patients keep reporting their experience back to the community so that we can all learn.
The device that is used in the UK clinic is also developed in Thailand. But the CE has expired, so they cannot import more of these devices. In the mean time rules and regulations for getting CE has become much more strict from MDD to MDR. For an aesthetic grade device it is much more easy to get CE, but for medical grade device it is much more difficult.
@ thank you again. Great info. I won’t try the aesthetic versions and wait for UK clinic to open its waiting list again. How frustrating that all the regulations changing are hampering them getting more machines into the country when there are so many sick people needing them.
@@TSW.healinghow do we do red light therapy at home? Is there a device we can buy online? Can you please provide the link?
When my skin has oozing issue , can I still use this therapy?
Great video, thanks 😊
So flaring isn't your body trying to heal? That's what I've been reading all along. What you said makes sense but just a bit confused. I've been dry and shedding for many months so I'm not sure whether it's linked to irritant exposure or just my body healing. My face (particularly forehead) gets the worst of it.
Correct, flaring is not the body trying to heal :) flaking is the body trying to heal. Good flaking is a good sign of healing. Redness is a sign of flaring which is caused by a trigger.
@@TSW.healing Ok makes sense. I've been flaking for well over 2 years regularly. I'm not sure if that means I'm constantly flaring or what. My face does get a bit red too sometimes but not flushing red like when I was in tsa 3 years ago. The rest of my body is dry which gets a bit pink or red when rubbed or scratched.
@@F_Arrow95how is your skin doing now? did you make any changes to your eating habits? I noticed sugar makes me so itchy which is so weird because i used to have the biggest sweet tooth.
@@dianag59 Overall better but still dealing with stubborn dry and sensitive skin in the same areas (face, around my arms and back of my knees). I'm starting to suspect fungal or Candida. I haven't made any changes to my diet and can't say sugar makes me itchy.
How is your skin?
I notice dairy and sugar, causes a flare up and extreme itchiness.when I stop consuming milk and sugar, the itchiness goes away.@@dianag59
Hi! How much time is normally there between the irritant exposure and the flare ? Thankyou.
Hi! Good question :) This depends on the severity of your TSW and where you are in your healing journey (so in short : the thickness of the skin) in combination with the strength of the irritant. So when your skin is still very thinned and open, you will usually flare immediately after irritant exposure (in minutes or hours). You might walk into an old house with a lot of old dust and you see your skin becoming bright red within half an hour, for example. But when you are further in your healing journey, and your skin is already thicker and stronger, you might be able to spend and hour in the same house with nothing happening and then slowly getting red. Another example: a lady whose skin was already looking normal (so reached around 70 -75 % skin thickness). Her husband bought a new printer and put it in the bedroom. 6 weeks nothing much happened. But then she started slowly flaring. After much research and mind cracking they thought about the printer and took it away. Her skin returned to normal again and she continued her healing. So here you see: her skin was already quite strong, and didn't react immediately. But slowly over time, the irritants were too much for her skin and she started flaring. So this illustrates how much detective work is needed to avoid irritant exposure. :D It is really not easy at all. Light irritant exposure might only cause some itchiness. Stronger irritant exposure can give little bumps. Stronger irritant exposure gives redness and inflammation. Very strong irritant exposure even brings back oozing and swelling. On top of that there are also other trigger that can cause flares, like: not enough sleep, the menses for the ladies or pregnancy, alcohol use, stress, change of the season (usually in fall), fermented foods and spicy foods, food allergens (highly individual). Learning about these triggers and observing your skin can teach you a lot and give you a much better healing rate. Best of luck!
@@TSW.healing What about if you're constantly dry and shedding? Is that just the normal tsw cycle or something is triggering it? I'm not bright red or oozing anymore but always dry and don't see any smooth skin. Currently 26 months tsw and been dealing with addiction for over 3 years. Pretty much been dry since early 2021.
@@TSW.healingare all fermented foods best avoided? I have an excess of Staphylococcus aureus on my skin and I am still going through tsw (about 6 years now started complete ts cessation). There are studies strongly suggesting different types of Bacillus such as Bacillus subtilis can wipe out the staph colonies. I’ve ordered bacillus probiotics that are 11 billion per capsule. I can provide an update on the pros and cons in a month’s time. So to further my question, are all fermeted foods because of their probiotic content? Or maybe selective probiotic content such as in supplements, are okay
Thank you so much.@@TSW.healing
I have a question does redness is still there with the dry flaking phase im actually in this period im in 19tg mouth TSW and the dry flaky period is very itchy i have also a redness but its no very red now its little bit darker and also i have another question , flare up and itching is differente ? because in TSW itching is a part of the process
Yes itching is part of the TSW process. The same when you have a wound on your skin or a scratch, at a certain point in the healing process it becomes itchy. This is the skin in the process of healing the wound, it is part of the process of healing.
Irritant / allergen exposure also give itchiness. They involve a immune response and histamine release. Also a skin infection can give itchiness. So in short, there are 3 types of itchiness that can occur during TSW: 1) from healing 2) from irritant / allergen exposure 3) from skin infection.
If you have redness during the dry and flaking phase, this means you have had a trigger. Darker redness means that the height of the flare has already past and the skin is calming down again.
I advise you to watch video nr 2 and 3 and 4 on this channel : Phases of TSW, Triggers that delay the healing rate of TSW, Phases of Wound healing.
Best of luck!
Hi can you share contact for Bangkok clinic pls
Please send me a message on my Instagram account. I can send you a voice note back.