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Posted 8/6/2013 1:56 AM (GMT 0)
I am 55 yrs old and my skin looks like an 80 yr old. I am depressed enough with not feeling good and to boot I feel like I look so much older lately. Also, very puffy under the eyes. Does anybody else have these issues?
Posted 8/6/2013 2:11 AM (GMT 0)
Yep. I got my wings a couple of years ago, but didn't notice until I was waving goodbye to someone and felt my arm flapping. My neck skin is getting looser and I think I just look older, after always looking younger than I was before I was ill. So I think we should go in for plastic surgery when we get better to reclaim our lost youth. :) ;) Maybe we could get a group discount.
Posted 8/6/2013 2:25 AM (GMT 0)
Agreed. I use to look younger also. The neck skin is horrible and under the chin also. The whole body. Even the skin above the knees are sagging. I am not overweight. I am thin. Just sagging skin everywhere.I feel so old.
Posted 8/6/2013 7:09 AM (GMT 0)

These last 3 weeks, my skin lost all of its elasticity...

don't know what happened, I hope it'll get better once I'm doing better.

Posted 8/6/2013 8:31 AM (GMT 0)
As far as I understand Lyme bugs eat away at the fatty layers under the skin,this leads to the wrinkles and baggy skin.

It should get better with treatment,my skin was like parchment last year,it has got much better but it's still not as it was pre-Lyme.

I also had dents in my calves rolleyes these have filled in very nicely,so there is hope,thankfully.

Tickled
Posted 8/6/2013 3:06 PM (GMT 0)
Hey gals, I would like to chime in here. I have been taking Biosil for about 4 months and I think this is helping me a lot. It really helps with elasticity. I take 2 pills a day, but I was only diagnosed a couple of weeks ago so I am not sure how I will fare now that I am on antibiotics...... rolleyes
Posted 8/6/2013 11:22 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Ladies ~ My skin has aged also thanks to Lyme.. I have been using Coconut Oil all over my skin and face .. I also made my own body butter out of it with some Aloe and Olive Oil .. it has helped a lot :)
Posted 8/7/2013 10:15 AM (GMT 0)
Angel:
Did you have any side effects from biosil? I was researching it and it mentioned digestive upsets, diarrhea....things like that. Who needs anymore problems. Know what I mean? I would like to try it though. I never heard of it before. How did you?

Purple: I also use coconut oil on my skin but it does not do a thing for the sagging or wrinkles.

Thanks everyone for your input.
Posted 8/7/2013 3:20 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Physical,

I have not had any of those side effects with the Biosil at all - not one! And for a while it was the only thing I was taking (before I knew I had Lyme).
Posted 8/7/2013 4:21 PM (GMT 0)
I'm going to try the coconut oil but I also use shea butter soap to wash up in from head to toe and I think it's helping! I buy mine through Whole Foods or through a company called Nubian Heritage. Great stuff!
Posted 8/7/2013 5:11 PM (GMT 0)
Wryter;
Since you are using the shea butter soap what have you noticed to be different. i would think that coconut oil and the shea butter would be for dry skin not sagging skin. As I said before, i use the coconut oil, but i really dont see much of a difference. But at least it is healthy.
Posted 8/7/2013 8:30 PM (GMT 0)
aphysicalwreck & Wryter,

I have been using pure unrefined shea butter for many years. It didn't prevent my skin from getting wrinkled not long ago, but it's the only thing that can somewhat 'feed' my skin, but it needs a LOT. Shea butter is known for restoring elasticity. I have been a bit negligent lately, maybe that's why all of a sudden my skin is much worse. Being at its worst state now, shea butter is the only thing that feeds it enough. One of its characteristics is that the skin absorbs it easily, it doesn't stay 'on' it.

I put it on at night after a shower, sleep with it (makes me feel like an oiled wrestler), and then take a shower in the morning with not too much soap). I'll try to use it 3 times this week, I hope it'll make it better.

If you would decide to use it, be sure you take the unrefined kind of shea butter.

Posted 8/7/2013 8:48 PM (GMT 0)
Forgot this, for the puffynes under your eyes: the eye creams (and eye Solace too) by Dr Hauschka are really good!
Posted 8/7/2013 11:35 PM (GMT 0)
MarieLS

Thanks so much for the valuable information. Next time i go to whole foods i will purchase it. The puffy under eyes really make me look so much older and sickly. Also, i would like to look into the Biosil that Angel mentioned.
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