Hello,
You all know that my daughter and I have been fighting the good fight with HS and I felt we were loosing and I saw my daughter getting more depressed and more sick with this stuff...She is on the paleo diet which I thought would knock this stuff out of the ball park, but after over a year of having HS and still having breakouts I knew the diet was only a small help...not a cure..... I also tried every friggin cream, ointment, you name it that goes on the skin...nothing helped...Also tried tumeric, xtra zinc, xtra vitamins, and antibiotics from the derm....still didnt help...So, finally I took her tanning to a tanning salon and her skin is clearing up...She had a huge cyst on her butt before I took her and it is drying up and clearing up. Her sinus tracts look better. Her skin has not looked this good in a long time....I am lets say skeptical but I have a friend and she said that is the only thing that puts her HS into remission.... We go 3 times a week for 4 minutes..... Her skin was HORRIBLE...... and even right before her period she is doing well...... I know, uva rays, radiation, what have you but I also know with HS FULL blown WE HAD NO LIFE... I used to call her bandaide girl lovinglingly and now I dont have 1 bandaide on her skin.... all the pustules, boils, tracks, everything is doing so much better. I just wanted to let some of you know that have about had it and want to throw in the towel....... I am still not changing anything with my daughter; diet the same, but I am not doing the bactroban stuff up the nose ( useless), and also clyndamycin gel on the skin ( useless) and also am not so damned tired out from the stress of constant breakouts...... I also know that tanning in the sun or in beds can cause skin cancer or damage but I also think that if you abuse these then it really happens...... so we are sticking to tanning. we have our life back! Tangerinebear xo