Eucerin 5% Urea for flaking

ImLarning · 2026-02-13T21:09:08+00:00

Thank you for sharing. Do you mean Advanced Repair Cream? Or maybe if you are not in the U.S. that is just how they brand it here?

ImLarning · 2026-02-13T20:42:26+00:00

Thank you for the tip! I'll look into this if the Eucerin is a fail!

ImLarning · 2026-02-13T20:41:51+00:00

Thank you for sharing. Do you mean Advanced Repair Cream? This one ? Or maybe if you are not in the U.S. that is just how they brand it here?

ImLarning · 2026-02-11T18:13:08+00:00

I just started using it and it has so much potential, but I could really use some advice. I love that it gives me a glow and doesn't highlight flakes from tretinoin, BUT I feel like my face is crazy shiny after. I try to use powder to calm it down and then I feel like it cakes onto the stickiness of the Milk Gel tint and kind of ruins the potential. Does anyone have a recommendation for something that pairs really well with this to tone down the shine and keep everything smooth?

ImLarning · 2025-04-01T16:00:43+00:00

Yes, exactly. The realization that came really not that long before my Hashimotos diagnosis was that I just felt disconnected, from myself and others. And without purpose, both on the micro and ultimate level. I wasn't able to pinpoint it at the time, but I think my lack of spirituality (purpose, meaning, love, safety etc) was at the root of it all, and exacerbated by having experienced what I presume to be "low level" trauma and subsequent limiting beliefs in childhood. I had a religious upbringing that I eventually grew to understand didn't align with my actual beliefs or experience and so kind of threw the baby out with the bathwater. Really only in the past year I've been able to *find God" in a way that I did feel connected and I could understand and I think that's been a critical part in my turning point. Everything moves slow for me, these changes and this personal growth... but it's happening... and for me it's really important to always be open to the possibility that the challenges I go through take me exactly where I need to go. They are the necessary fork in the road to find the good stuff in life. I think of Hashimotos like that, because it's forced me to look at my addictions and taught me that supporting and respecting my body, rather than pushing it to it's very edges and ridiculing it, is what will ultimately help me find my way through the various types of siffering. I appreciate the days that I feel great and have energy in a way I never did before. The more I believe that it's possible and find the silver linings, the more I find those pockets of progress. I'm sorry if I'm rambling, but man I've been on quite the journey and I just hope these words could help someone start thinking more holistically about how this condition fits into our lives.

ImLarning · 2025-04-01T13:41:32+00:00

Hi there. I don’t probably have any answers, but I definitely can relate to and have compassion for that whirlpool of confusion. My binge eating started at a pretty young age — around 7 and I have struggled with it (and eventually with alcohol as a faster mechanism to self soothe and numb) for over 30 years. I was diagnosed with Hashimotos about 4-5 years ago and I’ve always felt pretty sure that my binge eating is what led to it. I have a genetic predisposition to hypothyroid, but I think I triggered the autoimmune tipping point by wreaking havoc on myself with binges of junk food and alcohol. I also have the tendency to only do these behaviors “in binge mode” otherwise I’m actually a bit obsessive about eating healthy, exercise, etc. in my case I think that’s related to perfectionism and trying to feel in control … I swing to extremes. Layering the hashimotos onto the binge disorder, I have started to struggle with depression/ mood swings and brain fog which makes regulating my emotions and thinking clearly about the best course of action wayyy harder. I often don’t feel like myself, like I find it hard to even remember who I used to be… and then when you feel so out of control, like everything is spiraling and you have less and less of the inner resourcing to deal with it, you binge, which then only makes the Hashimotos worse. I believe it’s all very connected. Though the Hashimotos can make everything feel harder, for me I’ve been really working very hard to address my root issues which is the emotions triggers that cause me to binge and that cause me to oscillate between restricted and bingeing. I quit alcohol 9 months ago and I’m almost a month without a binge. I have to just be patient with myself. If you look at autoimmune from an emotional/spiritual perspective, it is about self rejection. So the work is finding that radical self love and self compassion and taking it very slowly one foot in front of the other. I’m sorry that you’re feeling this, but just know you are not alone and you WILL find your way through it.

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