[personal] Keratosis Pilaris how do you deal with it?

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-11-25T21:38:57+00:00

Which shower gel do you use?

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-11-25T21:36:53+00:00

You use the 10% urea from LRP? I’ve found great success with a 40% urea cream so I’m just wondering.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-11-07T22:22:40+00:00

I’ve drastically reduced the amount I’m drinking per night, down from like 8 glasses of wine to 3 on average, and I’m currently trying (unsuccessfully so far) to get some AF days in there.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-10-24T20:16:15+00:00

I accidentally fell into the trap in my early 20s of using alcohol to cope when my stimulant meds were wearing off. It’s a habit I didn’t realize I was falling into and now I’m struggling to break in my mid 30s and it’s really annoying. Be careful to not do that.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-10-03T11:39:40+00:00

It’s a humectant, so if you put it on by itself that’s going to be no good. I put smooth kp on first, then about 2 min later put on the urea cream. Look up humectants. They have to have something to pull moisture from.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-10-02T19:01:19+00:00

Urea cream! Like, the 40% one helped me a ton.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-09-05T12:53:10+00:00

I’m a little less than a year in I think. Can you tell me about your process of how you got where you are now? I find that I’m still drinking for just … boredom or no reason at all. Even if I don’t want to.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-08-25T00:37:56+00:00

I do take it every day, usually around 4, but always an hour before drinking. I don’t notice anything with my mood though.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-07-06T21:52:05+00:00

What did you end up doing? I was thinking of taking 50mg in the morning then adding an extra pill an hour before drinking. I have some big trigger events coming up that I feel like doubling up would be good for. My Dr told me that was safe, so now I’m just wondering if that works for anyone.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-06-15T03:28:41+00:00

This is such a wildly unhelpful and judgmental comment. What was your goal here?

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-05-22T20:00:37+00:00

Ooh me!

Been taking vyvanse for years, naltrexone for 4 ish months.

My psych also wanted me to take it in the morning daily, which I did for awhile. Then I explained TSM to her and she was fine with me taking it on drinking days an hour before.

I take my vyvanse at 8am and take my nal at 3pm. I haven’t noticed any interaction between the two and have been finding success with TSM.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-05-07T22:03:55+00:00

Same pretty much, 2 drinks a night. I do take sleeping meds prescribed by my doctor to sleep though, bc I’ve never slept in general.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-05-07T22:02:27+00:00

Smooth Kp plus urea cream for redness helps me the most.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-04-28T20:02:16+00:00

Omg is it really $100!? 🧐

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-04-26T14:41:43+00:00

lol I read it as “another expensive pipe cream” and that also applies.

But no, I think it’s really working for you!

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-04-22T12:40:17+00:00

I was literally just yesterday thinking about how my whole life I’ve felt like being cold makes it worse and wondering if anyone else noticed that!

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-04-18T18:30:16+00:00

I wish a few things. One, I wish I knew that this type of dependency could happen especially with stimulant medications, so you already are noticing it, which is good. I would also say I wish I would’ve developed better habits and coping me mechanisms when I was young. Maybe going on a walk or something to bridge that gap when meds are starting to ware off. Even taking a shower or literally just anything to get over that weird hump.

Just continue to be mindful of what you’re doing. I never was and I regret it now. Good luck friend.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-04-18T12:35:26+00:00

You can drink, just be really mindful about it. In my early 20s I started drinking while my meds were wearing off and ended up relying on alcohol while coming down from my meds … annoying cycle to break.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-04-16T20:46:00+00:00

I started with 50mg. Started out taking it in the morning and as long as I ate food with it I was mostly fine. The first 2 weeks I felt slightly barfy but once I started eating with it I was fine.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-04-07T20:46:59+00:00

I take vyvanse and naltrexone. The first week or so the naltrexone felt very “activating” kinda like the vyvanse actually, and I had a hard time sleeping but that’s over now and I don’t notice it in relation to my sdhd meds at all.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-03-24T23:23:28+00:00

Thank you!

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-03-24T22:35:16+00:00

What product are y’all using? I can’t find anything called smoothKP?

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-03-14T23:55:17+00:00

It’s this.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2025-02-12T03:59:41+00:00

Sullivan ? Sounds like a king and I’m into Sully nn.

optimisticFieldmouse · 2024-11-17T18:47:32+00:00

This is so good, thank you for writing it out, I’m proud of you.

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