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Hi Tara,I'm a 21 year old female in Canada and have been sifrefung from what I now believe to be HS from even before I hit puberty well, almost as long as I can remember. I've always desperately hid my cratered buttocks from friends, family, physicians, the world it's embarrassing.Fearing intimacy, I made up for my lack of sexual experience in experimentation with alcohol, recreational drugs and smoking through most of my teens. After meeting the right guy I abandoned my party lifestyle, also started taking oral contraceptives and that cleared up the symptoms to the point that I felt comfortable enough to be sober and intimate for the first time. My boyfriend commented on the bumps on my bum about a year into our relationship which opened a floodgate of self-loathing, depression and humiliation. I burst into uncontrollable tears and he must have clued in that this has been an extremely sensitive issue my entire life and has since not really brought it up. I've asked my family doctor a few times for her opinion on individual occurrences, but never thought to tie the cysts in my underarms to the plethora of ingrown hairs in my pubic area to the recurring boils of acne on my buttocks. This condition has caused me a lot of emotional pain and anxiety and I cannot even imagine the emotional horrors and physical pain of stage 3 HS. In the last few years I've drifted between remission and what I believe to be stage 1 HS, but before taking oral contraceptives and while I was smoking/partying (and even before that through puberty) I suffered through constant outbreaks of disgusting boils/abscesses mostly on my buttocks all which left scars.I've recently become a great deal more health conscious and have been entertaining the idea of going paleo in attempts to eat clean so that I can achieve my weight loss goal. I'm not overweight, I go to the gym semi-regularly at the least and haven't yet been able to cut out certain foods which has resulted in a fat-loss plateau. After reading your story and everyone else who has shared I'm definitely going to try paleo and cutting out nightshades. I'll also ask my doctor if and what she knows about HS now that I actually know that there's a name for it and that I'm not the only one.Also, does anyone have any knowledge or experience of blue light therapy for treating current HS outbreaks and/or scars? I have a gift certificate for it, have nearly flawless complexion on my face and am still working up the courage to disclose my actual problem area. It's something I want to do if it can help but I've heard mixed reviews about it's effectiveness in treating actual acne.Anyways, thank you so much for sharing your story. I look forward to the release of your book and will definitely be reading it.Yours, Robin
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17 december 2014, 03:31:05
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