Did you find that your skin.turned a silvery gray color??

I also have used acne treatments perscribed by my dermatologist. I use a wash and a lotion everyday and then when I get bad breakouts they perscribed me another lotion. These are not antibiotics tho. And they are all covered by insurence. It may be cheaper for you if you have good insurance.

This is terrible....but what do you do about the drainage and smell? I try to bandage and I use alcohol pads to "clean" the outbreaks each time I go to the bathroom, but there has to be a better way. Bandages are not good where I have mine and I have so many of them that are in constant drainage. There...I have asked the most embarassing questions.

Janakrist, I sometimes use maxi pads where regular bandaids are not enough. Also they give alot of padding so that wearing clothes and sitting are not as painful. As per the smell, the only thing we can do is just keep it as clean as possible. I have yet to find what is helpful for that.

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I was wondering, and someone had asked but, did you find thatthe colloidal silver changed your skin color? I am not kidding when I tell you that I just saw a BLUE man on the news last week that had been taking colloidal silver for years. He was literally dark blue. Carefull with that! Also wanted to add that I myself use acne pads and benzoyl peroxide on mine after each shower - morning and night.As well as taking turmeric pills (I TRIED drinking that stuff, couldn't do it) and zinc. The pads and benz. peroxide keep things quite clean, and not icky smelling either.

No, my skin never turned gray or blue and I saw the blue man too; that was really something! I would only take a tablespoon at a time and only once a day but only during the breakout time. I had good luck with it for years but then it quit working.

Don't just use any ointments or meds, If I were you, you should see your dermatologists and ask for an opinion. And by the way colloidal silver may harm your skin.


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@ Staceylg-I know who your talking about and that guy got in trouble because he was making his own colloidal silver. The dose was not tittered and he ingested too much silver over time. When he began having issues with his skin color he still kept taking it. I have never heard of anyone having trouble like that who has gotten their colloidal silver from a professional maker.

Melisa R-Did you ever apply the silver to your skin directly, like maybe as a poultice, and if so did you have any benefit?

How did you use it and in what dosage?

Thanks in advance.

hi all, i've been using colloidal silver for my HS since last october. did a lot of research online first. i use colloidal silver soap, cream & acne serum. i find it really helps. its quite expensive here in the uk but i find it well worth it. if i get a bad breakout i do have a tablespoon of liquid colloidal silver twice a day for a few weeks. please look its healing properties up online - & no, u definately don't turn blue!! lol! x

Hi Melisa,

I'm really glad you've found something that's working for you. Any anti-acne medication or treatment I have tried has been absolutely no use to me, so it's nice to see that some people are benefiting from it.

As far as colloidal silver goes, I don't wish to step on anybody's beliefs or whatever here, so I will say in advance that this is my own opinion, formed from my own research.

Colloidal silver's effectiveness is due to silver being a mild antiseptic and antimicrobial agent. It has much the same effect on microbes as other heavy metals, like mercury or lead, which of course are highly toxic to humans; silver is still toxic, but far less so. I would posit that colloidal silver's effectiveness in treating certain HS outbreaks is due to the fact that it fights secondary infection, rather than treating any underlying issue, and for this reason I believe one would probably get better results in those cases simply using antibiotics.

I dislike using antibiotics, personally, since for every person that uses them for something non-life-threatening, they become slightly less effective for the people whose lives depend on them, so I avoid taking them whenever I can. However, in the case of bad outbreaks, I believe a short-term course of antibiotics would be more helpful than colloidal silver, and as a long-term treatment, something that addresses the fundamental causes of HS (like the turmeric and zinc program that has helped a lot of people) would be more effective than colloidal silver.

It's possible, Melisa, that your previous outbreaks were being exacerbated by secondary infection, which is why the colloidal silver helped you so much, and that your new outbreaks are simply "base HS" for want of a better term. Certainly from my own experience, my groin/thigh outbreaks are less prone to secondary infection than my axillary ones, and they can be much more distractingly painful as there is no position I can be in (standing, sitting, lying down) that will alleviate the pain.

I should also point out that Argyria and argyrosis are the names of the conditions caused by excessive intake of silver, and they most definitely are real things. They're caused by the accumulation of silver in the skin (argyria) and eye (argyrosis) and they generally happen over the course of several years with extensive colloidal silver use. There is also one documented case of a death likely caused by excessive colloidal silver intake, so it is not completely and totally safe. Still. nothing is completely and totally safe. Even too much water can kill you.

Sorry, I've just noticed that this thread is quite old, but with new replies. I'll still post it, though, for anyone who reads it looking for advice about colloidal silver. I hope your treatment is still working for you, Melisa.

Sean

I've applied C-Silver to the affected areas and had only minor improvement, and I mean minor. I sprayed it on all affected areas, sometimes poured it on. Did it for a 1 month trial.

Any updates on colloidal silver?


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