Friday 22 January

I have been to the dentist today for a scrape and polish and a filling.  I was quite nervous and entrigued to see if I had a reaction from any of the treatment – but can say the only thing that happened was my face (even upto my forehead) was numb and I had a headache.

I am continuing with the green drink (had some with jasmine in today) and still not loving it.  My face is looking less red these days but you can still see the marks from the papsules and I do flush still but haven’t much today.

This week hasn’t been the best for my eating habits.  Today I couldn’t eat for a couple of hours following the dental work and I had been to the gym prior to that so was starving by the time I did eat.  Ben had made me a protein shake  and that did fill me up temporarily but I was still hungry.  So for lunch I had a bit of pastry and a taste of the pie that my son had made for his GCSE (chicken, bacon, mushroom and stilton).  I felt kind of funny eating eat as i’ve not had wheat or dairy for so long and the gravy did have yeast in it so could have been pyschological. I then had salmon (tinned) and a small amount of salad, followed by a large bag of kettle chips (tomato and basil) and marshmallows.  Think my body had gone too far and was at a low by the time I was getting solids into me.

I have been looking at my vitamin deficiencies again today and vitamin B does seem to have a connection with skin issues including seb derm and other gut illnesses.  In addition to the Vitamin B’s I am still low on calcium, magnesium and chromium which had not changed since my testing in October 2008.  In fact, looking at it again, in Oct 2008 I was not low in vitamin B12 or B6 which is odd as I have read that Rosaceans take a B12 first thing in the morning and some take a vitaming B complex later in the day too.

This is some crazy skin condition – very puzzling indeed!!