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Sebaceous cysts - Testimonial/Curiousity Question

First let me say Dr. Stoll changed my life nearly 8 years ago - I started getting sebaceous cysts and was about to go on Accutane when I stumbled across this website. I completely changed my diet, started taking flax and EPO and practicing SR (although not as much/regular as I should) and my sebaceous cysts (I was getting 8-10 at a time on my face) all went away. A miracle! Over the past 8 years or so, I do get a cyst occasionally. I have gotten so familiar with my body that I can pretty much eat too many carbs or bad fat and know that a cyst will result - and sure enough a couple of days later, there it is. Sad but true. I usually heat it, increase my flax intake and it disappears on its own within a week or sometimes a little longer. I got one last week after eating too many chips and with a little heating and extra flax, sure enough, 5 days later it was completely gone.

I know these are sebaceous cysts - I have been to several dermatologists and before finding this website was getting cortisone shots for them. They never surface, when picked at (I try my best not to), they open like a donut and heal as such but typically they remain under the skin and disappear on their own. I have never developed a pit scar from any of them, and only infrequently do I have skin discoloration, which fades over time and is mostly caused by the picking/heating.

I have found if I lower my flax and EPO dosage as I have had to go a few days without at times, the cysts come right back. I have gone through the archives and I realize no claims are being made that flax cures existing cysts, that only surgery can, but it is my experience that flax can keep them entirely under control, which is good for me considering I had so many at once, and when they do recur, it is all over my face, though typically only one at a time.

So I will continue taking my flax (I tried fish oil and it made things much worse for me) and EPO (I have stopped EPO at times and again, had negative results), eating extremely healthy (I eat very low carbs and basically follow a whole foods diet, with white meat and fish included), and practicing SR. I am just curious if anyone else has been able to "cure" a sebaceous cyst as quickly as I can? I typically get 2-3 per year now that disappear quite rapidly. Knock on wood:)

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