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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the sports hall (GCSEs are here again, along with depression, stress and anxiety).

Doesn’t time fly? I can hardly believe that once more a querulous cohort of GCSE students are being ushered begrudgingly into sports halls up and down the country with the weight and expectations of their parents resting heavy upon their slender adolescent shoulders.

I remember only vaguely at this vantage point my own GCSE experiences, perhaps it was the heady self assurance of youth, or the lack of expectation from my parents but I don’t remember it being a particularly big deal – but perhaps that is only with the benefit of hindsight. What I do know now is that in the interceding years there has fomented an atmosphere of rank terror and ever mounting pressure. Yes it is true, the students of today stand poised to enter and inherit a very different world and job market than the carefree days of yesteryear but even still the lunacy that accompanies the rhetoric around the importance of exams does perhaps pinpoint quite why we’ve seen the largest surge in diagnoses of anxiety, stress and depression amongst our youth ever.

So this is my antidote to that. All of this, all of the pressure, the expectation, the terror, is white noise, a buzzing fly for the thousands of you for whom these exams represent either the crowning glory of your academic life or a nasty gut punch after toiling for the last two years for what will feel like no good reason.

It may feel like the fate of the universe depends on your GCSE performance, but it really doesn’t. It’s all going to be okay. It’s important to remember that no matter what happens with your GCSEs, it remains a stepping stone and nothing more. A sort of gateway exam as it were. Obviously some of the recent and ongoing changes from alphabetical to numerical have thrown up confused and mixed messages and for many who are possibly university bound, the boundaries that were once so simple differ magnificently from one university to another. Hopefully though this will force schools to look at university entry and offer advice earlier than usual. With certain institutions and courses stipulating what now constitutes a grade C when in old money it was pretty obvious, it may be you’ll need to revise your plans and either do a resit or re-examine where you want to study post A levels. The same is true for certain HNDs, BTECs, Internships etc. who may have minimum requirements in English and Maths but what that shakes out in new money is somewhat subjective.

Your results when they filter through, squatting at the end of the summer holidays like a spectre at a banquet will necessarily impact the choices you make next, but, and it’s an important but – good or bad, nothing is permanent. As much as it feels like the most important thing in the world right now, as long as you’ve done well enough to keep your options open you’ll be just fine. My business partner is one of the smartest people I know, BA from Durham, MA from Warwick, PhD from Columbia, he had lousy GCSE results comparative to his ability and pretty unremarkable A levels if we’re getting into finger pointing. Equally, people I went to school with who performed astonishingly at GCSE level were middle of the pack come A level. As worried as you might be you are only ever really judged on your highest level of accomplishment, so as long as you do well enough to not close down avenues, things will work out just fine if you apply yourself and move forward in a positive fashion.

So no matter whether you’re the big winner or the wooden spooner come results day, try to hold on to the fact that it is, comprehensively, not the end of the road, just a bump in it. You can do resits alongside A levels or BTECs etc, you may need to slightly adjust certain plans to accommodate your new circumstances but you should never submit to feeling like a failure, nor should you be too smug. It all shakes out in the wash and if you know where you want to be, I guarantee if you apply yourself then your GCSEs are just business as usual.

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Top Secret Solution to Get Your Cheating Ex Back By Christmas

Your ex cheated and you left in a moment of pain and total relationship devastation. Now that cooler heads, hearts, and minds have had a chance to prevail, all you can think about is how to get your cheating ex back. The thing is you don’t want to waste any a single minute this time around. You want your ex back by Christmas. Keep reading, all the way to the very end, to find out what kind of help Santa needs from you to help check this wish off your Christmas list.

It’s a tall order but Santa has been known to pull a few miracles out of his goody bag. It is the season of miracles after all and this one might take the cake for the average mere mortal. But you’re going to have a little help on your side this time around and you’re going to help yourself a little bit too.

What’s the one critical thing you must do in order to get your cheating ex back by Christmas?

Don’t Panic About How to Get Your Cheating Ex Back by Christmas

Yes, it’s getting close BUT panicking will only lead you to make mistakes that could set your efforts back. Attitude is contagious. When you have an attitude of panic, your ex is sure to pick up on it. You want your ex calm, cool, and having positive happy thoughts not panicky thoughts of flight.

When you start sweating the details you run the risk of turning your ex off before you’ve had a chance to really turn your ex on. Having a positive attitude is crucial if you want to be successful in your attempt to get your ex back. You cannot possibly be thinking positively when you are in full blown panic mode.

How do You Stop Panicking?

Try these neat little tips to help keep you cool, calm, and collected during your campaign to get your Christmas romance heated up.

1) Do something nice for others. This does two things. First, it’s a nice gesture this time of year and good deeds, while their own reward, are often repaid on a Karmic scale. Second, it gives your mind something else to focus on for a while.

2) Visualize what yourself having what you want. When you can actually see the outcome you want clearly in your mind, you’ll feel much more confident that this is the outcome you’ll get. It helps relieve the panic and allows you to see the path you need to take to get that outcome more clearly.

Christmas is the season of miracles. There’s no reason to believe you will not be able to get your ex back by Christmas if you avoid the temptation to panic and maintain a positive attitude about the outcome.

 

But, you should not do one single thing to try to make this happen until you’ve gotten a little extra help on the side (not that Santa won’t do a good job but sometimes that little extra help can make it even better) from this free video: http://www.getyourexbacknow.com/just_break_up3.html.

Is back to school shopping looking to challenge Christmas?

We had a record breaking year last year for back to school sales; with over 800 billion[1] spent in the US, the back-to-school shopping season accounted for 17% of retail sales for the year. That was both plugged and un-plugged[2]. The experts say we are going to spend even more this year. It breaks down like this; we will spend what we did last year plus about 4% more. That is a whole lot of preparation for education. Continue reading

Prevent Back Acne (Bacne)

“Bacne”

Prevent Back Acne (Bacne)

I don’t know about you but I had many friends growing up who suffered from back acne and seeing as my mom was a dermatologist would always ask me how I avoid it or how to get rid of it and I never really knew the answer, I just knew I was lucky that I didn’t have it! After sitting down with Dr. Norris I learned that some people are more prone to “bacne” than others and specifically there are two groups, people who sweat a lot such as athletes and then those with a genetic predisposition for acne. Meaning this condition has a hereditary property, so don’t forget to thank your parents next time you see them if you have breakouts on your back! But don’t start to worry yet because there is still hope as there are some ways to minimize breakouts on your back.

 

3 Tips for Minimizing Bacne

  • Taking shower as soon after exercises or physical activity can help prevent breakouts 
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  • Try to get out of your sweaty clothes as soon as possible after exercise. A lot of times people go to a work out class or on a run then head to meet up with friends, but staying in your sweaty clothes can impact your skins health and cause breakouts. If you don’t have time to shower, at least change!

Prevent Back Acne (Bacne)

  • Using benzoyl peroxide to treat this condition but you want to be very careful when using benzoyl peroxide as it can bleach your clothes and towels. Dr. Norris suggests putting it on directly after bathing and letting it dry completely before putting on your pajamas or climbing into bed!

Prevent Back Acne (Bacne)

  • Finally, it is sometimes helpful to wash your back once a week with a medicated shampoo such as Selsun blue shampoo. 

While some of these preventative measures can help minimize breakouts typically a dermatologist should see this condition, as a common treatment is an oral antibiotic along with a good skincare routine. Acne on the back does not tend to respond as readily to topical treatments as the inflammation is deeper in the hair follicle on the back than say acne is on the face.
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Chronic Back Pain Treatment

Chronic Pain is defined as pain that occurs frequently or persists longer than six months. It is estimated that chronic back pain affects nearly one out of ten Americans. Chronic pain has been known to disappear over time, but it can also last a lifetime as there is presently no known cures for it.

Once you have chronic back pain for any reason you shortly come to realize that you’ll more than likely be living with it the rest of your life. There is exercises you will be able to do to help strengthen parts of your back and fight  pain but the fact is when the weather changes, or there has been a drop in the barometrical pressure, your back pain will flair up and remind you that you’re still injured and all the physical exercise in the world isn’t going to help.

Persistent backaches are often a lifelong problem. You can do exercises to strengthen your back and reduce the effects somewhat, but when the weather changes or the barometer drops, there will be a flare up. It’s as if your back is reminding you of your injury and that there is nothing you can do to eliminate the pain entirely.

Painkillers form a part of most chronic back pain treatment programs. Other options include exercise, manual therapy such as chiropractic or massage therapy, and acupuncture. Spinal fusion surgery is generally only recommended if all other treatment options have been tried and nothing else helps.

The best way to get relief from your pain and gain practical knowledge could be to chat with friends suffering from same problems since a long time. Most of such patients have tried various methods and can tell you some of the effective ones. But you should ensure that both of you suffer from the same ailment otherwise that treatment can even harm you more than you can imagine.

There are different kinds of treatments that doctors use. One of the most common is the adjustment and manipulation treatments It is a process that uses pressure on certain parts of the spine or joint that is causing you pain. This can help to relieve the stress placed in joints, and help them to function properly.

Back pain, or any pain, is your body telling you that you need to rest. Pain indicates that all is not well, and your body needs time to repair. A healthy body will be able to repair many pains with adequate rest and no other treatment.

The back muscles in the human body are really strong and are naturally meant to take a lot of strain. But there is a limit to everything. Reaching beyond that limit can cause the back muscles to cramp up painfully and get inflamed, causing the chronic back pain. You can only strain your body so much and no more. I

In several cases, rest can cure back pain, e.g. if it is acquired while jogging or playing. But in the case of trucking, the truck drivers sit in the same position and do the same thing, every day of their working life. Truckers also usually are on the road and don’t get to their homes often enough to seek treatment.

Another treatment method includes eating healthy. It is important to make sure you get all of your vitamins and minerals. Try to eat healthy food as much as you can. You see, simple things, such as losing weight and eating healthy may be all you need to do to get rid of that chronic back pain.

So there you have, ways that can help you alleviate back pain; you may take Advil or other pain relievers, exercise and do some stretching, choose a relaxing spa treatment or simply use a heat therapy product such as Back Wrap which my grandma would definitely vote for.

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Yoga and Lower Back Pain

In a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center researchers found that yoga classes specifically designed for chronic lower back pain (my italics!) helped patients feel better. In light of this those with non-specific Lower Back Pain might also be interested in this podcast which features Stuart McGill (regarded as the God of Lower Back Pain) discussing yoga and lower back pain

Yoga and Lower Back Pain

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TSW to Dr Aron’s… ZERO regret and I gained my LIFE BACK!!!

Good grief!  I don’t even know where to start.  I stopped blogging because, honestly, I didn’t have time.  My life has been so full and back to normal along with my skin that I haven’t had anything to blog about.  I don’t take photos of my skin anymore.  I don’t have updates.  I’m just back to living my life without thinking about my skin.   Skin no longer dictates everything I do.  Showers feel great.  I sleep through the night without Benedryl.  I have energy.  I am eating more foods!  ALL good.  How?  Well, some of you are going to cringe when I say this and quite frankly I just don’t care.  I spent my WHOLE TSW experience trying to bring hope to the people who were in the depths of hell.  Showing them where I’d been and how much healing I’d experienced.  But, truthfully, after nearly 2.5 years of TSW hell, I could no longer convince anyone, including myself, that time was going to heal me.  I needed to get back to my life.  I needed to focus on my kids and my family.  I needed SOMETHING.  Enter, Dr. Aron.

If you’d asked me at the beginning of TSW if I’d EVER go back on steroids, I would’ve SWORN I never would.  TSW gave me a steroid phobia.  Steroids were the reason my skin was nearly killing me.  Steroids were the reason I was in so much pain.  Steroids were the reason for it ALL!  Well, after 2.5 years of NOT fully healing…Of constant flares…..  Of avoiding EVERYTHING due to my skin….  Of being miserable…. I finally decided to try something else.  Anything else.  Anything that could possibly give me my life back.
On a calm night in May I was up late,as usual because my skin was in pain, and I started really looking into Dr. Aron. I almost signed up at the very beginning of TSW, but couldn’t quite pull the trigger.   His theory on bacteria being the leading cause of the mess made sense.  I weighed the possibility of TSW being inevitable and me possibly having to go through it all again, and I decided that I would try immunosuppressants if it were necessary some time in the future.  I also knew that Duplimab was in the works, so I had that to fall back on as well.   I had clung to the idea that TSW heals everyone!  Everyone will be eczema free!  Well, I just honestly don’t think that’s even realistic.  I also started to see my TSW heroes STILL miserable, depressed, and suffering after 5 plus years.   Still taking on the responsibility of bringing hope to others through their blogs and taking blogging “Breaks” because they couldn’t share “hope”… because, at 5 plus years, they were feeling hopeless.  NO!  NO NO NO!   That, to me, was not something I could deal with.  So, on a calm, rational night, I took the plunge and purchased Dr. Aron’s.
On June 5th, 2016 I received my prescription.  I scheduled a doctors appointment for my doctor to fill the prescription and dove in head first.  I mixed the ingredients how they said.  The chemical smell made me nervous.  I had a rush of adrenaline as I put the mix on my fingers.  I said a little prayer, and applied.  It stung.  It burned, but this was NOT a surprise as my skin was in a perpetual state of brokenness.  And I mean PERPETUAL.  Like a Groundhog Day of painful showers and having to ice my neck for 30 minutes after each one.  I think about those days now and fight panic attacks.  The INTENSE itching.  The oozing smell.  The pain.  I am not even going to waste anymore words on this because you can search my blog and SEE the intense suffering for yourself. Some days I wonder if the suffering was even necessary, but I don’t let myself go down that road.
After 3 days I was sleeping fully though the night without waking.  Up until that point, I hadn’t slept through the night fully in 2.5 years.  I woke up itching EVERY night.  The sweat from sleeping made me itch like crazy.  EVERYTHING made me itch!!!  I hadn’t slept longer than a 4 hour stretch in MONTHS and before that it was 2 hour stretches.  I was a miserable.  Dr ARon’s fixed that immediately.  I remember waking up after my first full night of sleep.  I had this weird nervous feeling.  I realized that feeling was energy from having truly RESTED.  How depressing.

After 3 days I could shower!  Showers were no longer EXHAUSTING.  They took everything out of me!  It was so awful!  Well, after just days, showers felt amazing.  I remember standing in the shower with tears of joy streaming down my face because it felt like a shower.  A beautiful, warm shower.  No intense itching.  No intense burning.  No knife like cut feelings.  Just wet warmth.  I had suffered for 2.5 years.  Even avoiding showers for an entire year due to the HORRIBLE pain.  You read that right, I didn’t shower for a YEAR.  I am so mad even typing that.

After a few weeks I could sweat without feeling the heat flare!  Oh the freakin heat flares!  I would know I was sweating before I was even sweating because the itch would start.  The slightest raise in heat would cause my body to slightly perspire and the sweat would sting and burn all the broken skin.  OMG it was miserable!  I couldn’t work out, I couldn’t walk in the heat, I couldn’t do anything without feeling like I could just itch my skin off.  UGH.

After 10 days I looked like I’d lost 10 lbs because the swelling had gone down so much.  You could see my chin again.

It took much longer of the wrinkles to subside.  That was months, really.

After 6 months I went on a date with my husband to a work Christmas party and TRULY felt beautiful.  My skin played a huge roll in that.

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Well, so here we are.  At my 1 year Aron-aversary.  I have never regretted the decision.  NOT ONCE.  IT has been the best decision of my life.  I would do it 1 million times over.  OVER AND OVER!  It has given me my life back.  I am a human again.  I don’t have a lot of recent pics, but here are a few pics I sent my husband and a few from JUST now while blogging at my mom’s house.
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You guys, I KNOW what you’re going through.  I have been through it!  I understand sticking with TSW!  And I understand the fear of going back on steroids.  I support whatever you’ve decided!  If you have any Dr Aron questions, I am going to be making a post on questions and my full experience.  I had major Post traumatic stress.  Anyway, leave any questions in comments!  And Talk soon, friends!  
Until then, I will be enjoying swimming and sweating and sleeping and anything else I avoided for so many years!


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Back for Christmas

Maybe its the winter, maybe its the stress of Christmas approaching but either way the eczema is making a comeback.

The patch that started this blog is looking a bit red after being gone for months and there is a little patch on my right wrist.

Today I noticed about a 3″ cirular patch on the inside of my right elbow.

I’m guessing its to do with stress and I know what’s causing my stress at the moment, just not sure what to do about it…

Update: just as this batch came it has gone. In the last few days I have started getting an itch on right calve which I am using Eumovate on which should clear it up.


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