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SR -- the first step

I wrote in Sept after a month's commitment to SR. I just want to update my improvement. It's now been two and a half months since I began. The three yr-old wart on my finger is now completely gone (it had been previously frozen off and returned). I practice SR twice a day -- no matter what. I either do two twenty minute yoga nidra sessions or one 45 and then one 20 minute session, depending on my schedule. On weekends I now want to try to get in three sessions a day. I would like to say that I am a completely different person now that I have made this commitment to SR. I handle stress better. I have begun to recognize the bracing I do and am back to being a low-key kind of person.

Here is my question however. About a year and a half ago, after being under a lot of stress and not handling it well, I began to have strange skin problems. Six derms had no clue. (Of course they handed me prescriptions for antibiotics). Finally after beginning SR and reading this site I have begun to figure out the problem. I believe I have the early signs of dysautonomia. When I get hot -- say after an hour of working out -- I get hard bumps, under my skin (They are not pus-filled), usually along the chin, or the jawline or the side of my face near the ear. I also get red pimply versions of them on my back and only sometimes are they pus-filled. It takes weeks for these knots to disappear. If I am in the sun or a steamy atmosphere for an hour or more then I get pimples, tiny pus-filled pimples.

Typically in the morning, my skin looks great, it is just after taking a shower (steam, warm water) that it begins and then when i set out into the day, it worsens. I still can't use makeup. Makeup or any kind of sunscreen or lotion breaks it out -- however, I haven't put a thing on it in over a year to be safe.

I brace my jaw a lot. I'm realizing that now that I am so relaxed after SR. I remember three years ago that i had a horrible ear problem. It came out of nowwhere. I had fluid on the ears and so forth. No one coudl figure out why. I honestly think back now that it was caused by bracing. It has completely disapppeared as well as sinus headaches. But though my skin is not as blotchy anymore it still has the heat breakout. IT was also flushing as in rosacea but that has winded down to only the nose and only about five or six times a week opposed to three times a day. I can actually sit and drink a cup of hot tea without my nose turning red and burning. One odd thing though, since I began SR, I have begun to aquire a few other rosacea symptons such as a tiny red patch on the nose, beet red that has been there a week now. It is since I upped my SR? Is this a healing crisis? I didn't have these symptons before. Funny though, Six months ago this would have made me seriously upset. Now because of the SR, I am frustrated but I don't worry about it.

I have only been doing SR religiously for ten weeks so is it too soon for me to become frustrated? I just read MAH MAS and realize that a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. I am also taking flaxseed oil twice a day (since Sept 1 as well). Here is my question. Is it possible to reverse this bizarre skin problem? Will i ever be able to go into the heat again? Am I doing the right things? I want to be well and back to normal so bad. Do I need to shut up and SR for a year then report back? Do I need to give it a year of constant, consistent SR?

Thanks. I love this site and think you, Dr. Stoll, are brilliant.

Kim.

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