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Hi so I just wanted to share my story in the hope that this will help anyone else struggling like I was because I know how hard and difficult it can be when you’ve been struggling with this for a long time,

So basically about 9 months ago I noticed these patches appear on my body there was a big one on my back and afew spotted on my stomach, I’m tanned and these patches were white so quite noticeable, they weren’t rings they were just random shapes and sizes, I didn’t think much of it and thought it would go away on its own but it didn’t, I then visited two chemists, one pharmacist told me they were burns (lol) and the other gave me a cream for eczema, in the end they spread and I finally went to my doctors who looked at it and immediately said ringworm, they prescribed me clotrimazole and said to apply that, I did and I was also applying lamisil the gel, cream and spray after reading on here that it can help it, no improvements so back to the doctor I go who then gave me steroid cream, 2 weeks in no improvement so I stopped using it as I read it can actually make it worse, at this point it was all over me, my whole stomach was covered in it, my arms, chest, my back, my legs it was awful,

I then visited the doctor again and asked for terbinafine as I’d read that was the strongest oral medication for ringworm, 3 weeks in not even a slight improvement, I then went on holiday and bought a course of fluconazole OTC 2 weeks of that again nothing, at this point I’m so frustrated I feel down and really fed up, I didn’t know what to do I was willing to try anything so I tried apple cider vinegar and other things I won’t mention but nothing seemed to work, I was so frustrated that it wasn’t reacting to anything, so then I know this sounds silly but I sent the pictures of my skin to chat gpt which came back as saying it looked like tinea versicolor, so back to Reddit I go reading up on recommendations, that’s when I read about nizoral shampoo and sulphur soap,

So I went to boots, in the uk boots have there own version of nizoral which is the exact same product just cheaper so I got afew bottles and for two nights in a row I rubbed it everywhere, all over my body and left it on overnight,
The results weren’t the best it did look scary, it had stripped my whole skin of moisture and I just looked like one big dry scab, the white patches were now red and enflamed and eventually they started to crust over and it was so itchy, I may be wrong but I think this is what it needed to totally dry out, there was no moisture for it to keep spreading.
After the 2 nights of leaving it on overnight I stopped as my skin was quite sore but I would still apply all over before my shower and leave it on for atleast 15 minutes, I did not use any moisturiser at all, it was dry as hell so I understand if people might be tempted to but I didn’t just because I didn’t want to put moisture back into my skin whilst it was drying out,

I also ordered sulphur soap from eBay and used this in the shower, I would lather it up all over and leave it on for another 15 minutes, I stopped using all my other products at this point and was just using the shampoo and soap, I’d change my sponges every week too, and I was doing the usual washing everything, cleaning everything, I’d never wear the same clothes twice, would wash my towel after one use, anyway the patches scabbed over and I left them until the skin had shedded and underneath the patches were still there but it just looked like my normal skin they were completely flat and just looked like my skin hadn’t tanned in those places,

I carried on using it before the shower and using the soap, after 2 weeks of doing this I went on the sun bed, I know a lot of people don’t want to use these which is fine but I’m ok with using them and I just wanted to see if the patches would tan again like my normal skin, they did.

It’s been 3 weeks now of doing this routine and they’ve faded so much, in most places there gone completely, in these last 3 weeks I can’t believe how much improvement I’ve seen just from these two products, I’m so happy as I genuinely started to think I’d never get rid of it,

I really hope this helps anyone at all that is struggling with this because it can be an absolute nightmare to deal with, I stopped using the clotrimazole cream along time ago, im not saying it won’t help but for mine as it was so wide spread it was useless, it would take me nearly an hour to cover all the patches then in the end it would just get rubbed off by my clothes or pjs, so yeah I really hope this helps someone, oh and I did go to a dermatologist who just gave me cream for eczema and told me it can’t be tinea versicolor as it was on my legs and its not common there!

So I just thought it would be quicker to try to get rid of it on my own and I have, the routine can become tedious and it is a lot of work but when you start seeing results it doesn’t feel so bad to do anymore, the sulphur soap is just the 10 percent one on eBay or Amazon, it doesn’t smell the best but I didn’t care and I would just use the shampoo to tone down the smell it left on my skin!

I also bought probiotics from eBay and take these, two capsules daily, I got the weight world pro bio culture complex capsules.

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Hi so I’ve been dealing with Tinea versicolor for months now and I’m just at the point where I don’t know what to do anymore, I’ve used every cream you can possibly get from the doctors I’ve had a round of terbinafine with no improvement I’ve used clotrimazole lamisil I’ve even used apple cider vinegar, nothing is getting rid of it, I read on here about using nizoral so I did and I left it on over night for two nights in a row, all the patches were white and they have now gone red it’s everywhere all over my legs thighs back arms stomach chest, I’ve started a round of itraconazole but I’m feeling so fed up I just want it gone, I’ve also been using clotrimazole and ibuprofen mixed together as someone else suggested and organic coconut oil, but I just wanted to know if there’s hope for me? Will I ever be able to get rid of it, has anyone else used the nizoral and did theirs go red? Is this normal? Should I keep up with the nizoral or leave it? Please help me I’m not asking for medical advice I just want advice in general from people who have had this

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