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Just to be clear, I am a full supporter of Cloti so this is not for arguing against the fact that I believe Cloti to be the only romance that makes sense for the overall story and character writing.

BUT I just don't understand or can't come up with a good explanation as to why he asks that question about Aerith to Tifa during their date, and it does annoy me.

Why did the devs put that there? I understand why it exists in the Aerith date but why is it there for his date with Tifa?

we have a broken lip barrier, you are not supposed to expose even regular skin with broken barrier to sunshine. and regular skin has 3 times more layers than the lips.

and then we use stuff like steroid creams or Tacrolimus which have medical warnings against sun exposure.

how do people that go against this logic and expose their lips to sun without sun protection not end up with lip skin cancer or other permanent damage?

Why is it harder than advanced engineering maths to string together sentences in German? it is like my brain just refuses to accept the grammatical structure and the rules no matter how much I study this language and how long I have been exposed to it in my daily life. i can understand most of what I hear, I can understand most of what I read, and I can write when I take my time and check rules andarticles online but it never becomes automatic.

How have you solved this? My brain seems to resist the logic of German grammatical and sentence structures. if I omit the articles and opt for a more English or Scandinavian style logic, I can quickly make sentences since I know a lot of words but then i will be forever speaking a broken weird German …

My mother tongue is Turkish, and I never struggled with learning English or Scandinavian languages, even with beginner Japanese the way I struggle with German. I have also invested the most money and resources into German out of all languages I have learned but it doesn’t seem to bear fruit, and I live in Germany so I’m exposed to the language everyday. really doubting that I will ever be able to get fluent in German…

I imagine there are other people who had similar struggles - how did you overcome them?

- Spoilers Ahead for OG FF7-

I don't know if I am looking at this in a very biased way since for me Cloud & Tifa and Zack & Aerith made sense right away as the main couples of the story (I played FF7R before the OG FF7 & Crisis Core).

But I have been thinking, just to understand the other side of the discussion, what it would mean for the characters if the story went the Cloud & Aerith route and in my opinion it would ruin Cloud entirely as a character because of several things but mainly this point:

- Cloud is a loyal guy, who cares about people he loves so much that he gets traumatized when something happens to them, and he is extrenely guilt ridden when he is involved in anything tragic happening to people he loves. We know that Cloud will figure out what happened with Zack's death, and remember everything about Zack dating Aerith and being "head over heels" for Aerith before his death, and how he basically died to save Cloud and left him his legacy and all that. And then let's suppose he decides to be with Aerith despite of all these , let's imagine that somehow Aerith returns : this would go against everything Cloud is, values, believes in. It would be against everything his character represents. He would be backstabbing his best friend that sacrificed his life to save him, and steal the girl he was in love with. How does anyone who play this game think this is a good logical option for the story and the characters beats me. Yes, love can be illogical but love does not change people's personalities entirely unless they were like this to begin with. And we know from the snippets of Cloud's past, that he is not a character that would do something like this.

And even for the whole story, it would be such an ugly conclusion.

Am I just too biased in my view? Or do others see what I mean?

I have not tried going Vaseline free yet and want to test it to see if it makes any difference but it is in all the balms, and even Tacrolimus and steroid lip ointments.
And it is what I have been using daily but I’m now curious if quitting it for 2 weeks might make any difference.
Has anyone tried this and if so what did you use?

And if so, how do you manage?

Doesn’t have to be sth like being a nurse only but even positions like office based managers where you have to lead meetings and do presentations all the time.

How do you manage? Any tips? Do you share that you have a lip condition with your colleagues, your HR?

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Could she show you any testimonials/ picture proofs of people who actually got cured by her method?

How do you manage/ have you found ways to manage these life activities:
- speaking for long periods for work
- kissing your partner
- drinking bevarages directly from a cup / glass like a normal human being
- consuming hot bevarages and soups
- dental treatments , especially longer ones
- swimming
- sunbathing
- for those with discoloration on their lips: managing the looks maybe with make up? To make it less noticeable
- managing the burn and raw feeling to get you through the day
- hair removal around the lips including shaving or waxing etc
- drinking alcohol : I did it only once since I got EC and through a straw. My lips got so much worse so I am too afraid of it now. I know it is not a must have in life, but it is also a social thing that I would like to be able to do again.
- flu/cold other sicknesses , how does this thing behave when you get a fever? How do you manage a fever and flue when you can’t consume hot drinks and soups?
- when you have a bad stomach and maybe end up throwing up, how do you manage its impact/ damage on the lips?
- the impact of the lips on your social life: do you meet new people ?
- the impact of it on your work life if you have to do stuff like presentations and video calls regularly
- the psychological impact of it overall on a daily basis, waking up everyday to the fact that your body is incapable of healing your lips and this is quiet possibly your new norm

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Has anyone experience this? I switched to every second day instead of everyday and plan to move to the twice a week typical week off routine for a week or two and then quit but my lips are burning so much already - which they didn’t on Tacrolimus. Not sure what to do

Has anyone experience this? I switched to every second day instead of everyday and plan to move to the twice a week typical week off routine for a week or two and then quit but my lips are burning so much already - which they didn’t on Tacrolimus. Not sure what to do

I go through the older posts with people getting excited about one treatment or the other but then they just disappear.
Would love to hear if any of those people are still here and can share if they actually healed.

So many methods that people have claimed to be helpful have loose ends for long term impact : Brazilian method , mandelic acid, Tacrolimus etc

I can imagine that if you healed you might want to avoid this topic entirely, but would really appreciate a response from people who at least gave a specific method a long term consistent chance like 3-6 months at least and can share their experiences

Obviously it won’t solve it and it can be pricey - but did you find the kind of emotional support you might need for dealing with this condition? Considering it has a huge impact on our social lives, confidence, but also daily life functions and we lose so much because of it again both functionally and socially and self confidence wise. But I’m not sure if a therapist can help deal with a problem that is so physical.
Personally this condition has made my life so limited, so small, it feels like being physically traumatised everyday. And then the more time passes the more I realize this is probably my new normal now and I’m afraid of even having hope because having hope makes trying new treatments even harder since the chances of them not working at all are a lot higher than the chance of them working.

How was it? Did your lips react a lot?
Did you quit because it healed or because it didn’t help at all ? Did you quit cold turkey or slowly ween off?