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triron

(22,240 posts)

15. I'm taking 1200 mg per day. Helps a little.

Reply to mucifer (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 4, 2022, 03:01 PM

Feb 2022

Acupuncture helps too. Colloidal oatmeal bath seemed to help a little. Also calamine lotion.
Scabs from rash are gone now but still very sore where the rash was (from my mid back down
and around my side to my belly button (all on the left side).

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