I am going to begin blogging data about my own  case… ultimately with data and slides and perhaps I can submit it to a journal where others can benefit from my observations.

So beginning with, yikes, i don’t like this condition, ha ha, itching is a seriously annoying entity, and scratching is not an option.  Basically I am not one who has ever been able to use, or even consider using, skin creams, antiaging formulas, junk for tanning, or removing spots. I have skin which is genetically “poor” by all standards so had I been raised in an age where there were products for sensitive skin, and had there been much knowledge about skin care in general (UV A, B, and C and their potential for causing skin aging and cancer) and had I been born to parents (whom I do not criticize here as the data were not yet defined) with any biological knowledge, things might have ended up differently..but they didn’t.

My children inherited their father’s skin for all I can determine, olive complected and not prone to burning and sun damage…so that is a plus, nevertheless I am/will/have  informed them all of what I understand about skin types and predispositions.

While this is just  “tip” for now…..  the itching of lichen planus is not easily remedied. I have found one very interesting thing (at least i think it is interesting and it works for me). Mary Kay cosmetics makes a buffing cream…I haven’t even read the contents, but i had a tube in my closet for 20 years at least and got it out about a week ago and wondered if it would help take the keratin layer off my lichen planus lesions.  What I found really startled me…in fact using this buffing cream in a soft circular motion over the lesions actually did NOT MAKE ME ITCH…. but it did give me some relief.  How odd is that.  In place of scratching, try using this buffing cream and cold water rinsing…. ha ha… who knew.