Diagnosis: ACNE INVERSA (Hidradenitis suppurativa): A Skin Disease Or Something More? Causes, Symptoms, Therapy & Tips For Copin

By Daniela Lerschen

Do you suffer from painful abscesses in the armpits, groin or genital area? Have you ever heard of "Acne Inversa" (Hidradenitis suppurativa) or do you suspect you suffer from the little researched disease?

Do you want to know everything about "Acne Inversa" and how to deal with the disease?

The guide offers you comprehensive information about "Acne Inversa". The chronic disease attacks your body. It is considered a systemic disease. You will learn what you are dealing with in the disease "Acne Inversa".

Look forward to honest information and tried and tested tips from the author, which have already proven themselves in practice. You will receive detailed descriptions of the various therapeutic approaches, both conventional and unconventional.

Do you want to know how to find your own way to live with and accept the disease?

Specific offers of help and ideas for self-help await you in the guidebook. All the measures and exercises can be done at home or from home. You can actively promote your mental health and social contacts yourself.

You will learn to contain the symptoms and lead a happier life. Despite "Acne Inversa!"

Do you want to change your life and get "acne inversa" under control?

Get back your lost quality of life.

Activate your body's own mechanisms and start your self-healing powers. Don't let "acne inversa" rule your life any longer. Start now and live more freely and happily!

The guidebook "Diagnosis: ACNE INVERSA" offers you important information and answers:

What is Acne Inversa? What are the symptoms?
What are the severity levels and how are they determined?
What are the causes & triggers?
How is acne inversa diagnosed?
What are the effects of acne inversa?
What are the most common comorbidities?
Is acne inversa a "disability"?
Does the condition differ between men and women?
Acne inversa during puberty and menopause?
What should be considered in the context of COVID-19?
And more...

Reaching sufferers - Sharing knowledge - Saving quality of life - That's the goal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Apr 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9783986469818

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Diagnosis: ACNE INVERSA

(Hidradenitis suppurativa)

A Skin Disease Or Something More?

Causes, Symptoms, Therapy & Tips For Coping With Everyday Life

By Daniela Lerschen

I M P R E S S U M

Diagnosis: Acne Inversa (1. Edition)

by Daniela Lerschen

© 2022 Daniela Lerschen

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Author: Daniela Lerschen

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Table of Contents

WHAT TO CONSIDER WHEN READING THIS BOOK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

1 ACNE INVERSA

1.1 SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNE DIS-ORDER (SAD)

1.2 DETERMINATION OF THE DISEASE SEVERITY

1.3 CAUSES/ TRIGGERS & RISK FACTORS

1.3.1 IN GENERAL

1.3.2 GENETICS AND HORMONAL FACTORS

1.3.3 LEAKY GUT SYNDROME

1.3.4 OUR LIFESTYLE

2 HOW ACNE INVERSA IS DIAGNOSED?

3 IMPACT & CONCOMITANT DISEASES (COMORBITIES)

3.1 ULCERATIVE COLITIS & CROHN'S DISEASE

3.2 ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

3.3 BECHTEREW'S DISEASE (AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS)

3.4 SEVERE OVERWEIGHT (OBESITY) & DIABETES

3.5 POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME (PCOS)/

3.6 DOWLING DEGOS DISEASE/ DOWN SYNDROME/ PASH SYNDROME

3.7 PSYCHE & QUALITY OF LIFE

3.8 CHRONIC PAIN

3.9 BONUS CHAPTER:

4 IS ACNE INVERSA CONSIDERED A RECOGNIZED DISABILITY?

5 DOES THE DISEASE DIFFER IN WOMEN & MEN?

6 ACNE INVERSA & PUBERTY

7 ACNE INVERSA & THE MENOPAUSE

8 ACNE INVERSA & CORONA (COVID-19)?

9 IS THERE A WAY OUT OF THE DISEASE ACNE INVERSA?

9.1 DRUG TREATMENT

9.2 SURGICAL INTERVENTION

9.3 PHYSICAL LAIGHT THERAPY (COMPANY: LENICURA, 65197 WIES-BADEN, GERMANY)

9.4 ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES

9.4.1 RELIEF THROUGH CANNABIDIOL (CBD)?

9.4.2 AUSTRALIAN TEA TREE OIL

9.4.3 ZINC

9.4.4 ST. JOHN'S WORT OIL

9.4.5 SKIN MICROBIOME & GUT DYSBIOSIS

9.4.6 SCHÜßLER SALTS - WHAT CAN THEY DO?

9.4.7 MICRO ALGAE

9.4.8 SNAIL GEL – „HELIX ASPERSA"

9.4.9 VOLTAREN OINTMENT & DICLOFENAC GEL?

9.4.10 COLLOIDAL SILVER

9.4.11 WOMEN'S SPECIAL: TAKING THE PILL THROUGH

9.4.12 CURCUMA & HONEY

9.4.13 ALOE VERA PLANT

10 LIVING WITH ACNE INVERSA & CO.

10.1 TREAT ACCOMPANYING DISEASES

10.2 NUTRITION & ACNE INVERSA

10.3 THE RIGHT CLOTHES

10.4 THE RIGHT BODY CARE

10.5 DRUGS, ALCOHOL & CIGARETTES

10.6 ACNE INVERSA & SPORT - IS IT POSSIBLE?

10.7 DECELERATE YOUR LIFE

10.8 PSYCHOTHERAPY & SELF-HELP GROUP

11 PREPARATION FOR A VISIT TO THE DOCTOR

12 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

13 ACCEPTANCE & TOLERANCE

MY ACNE INVERSA LIFE STORY

MY CONCLUSION

DISCLAIMER AND GENERAL NOTE ON MEDICAL TOPICS

THE MOST IMPORTANT SOURCES:

ONLINE MEDIA

There are a thousand diseases, but only one health.

Carl Ludwig Börne

WHAT TO CONSIDER WHEN READING THIS BOOK:

For better understanding and readability, both I used the masculine and feminine forms for personal designations in this work.

Corresponding terms apply in the sense of equal treatment regardless of age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability and ideology.

The abbreviated form of language does not imply any valuation.

The sources are indicated in the continuous text: [1], [2], etc., for print media.

For online media (Internet links) [A] to [Z], [A1], [A2]…

The exact details can be found at the end of the book under The most important sources.

If the source is mentioned in the continuous text, e.g. Vellaimy et al. 2021 no further specification is required in the list of sources.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniela Lerschen, born in 1975, lives with her husband near Aachen, Germany.

She discovered her passion for writing at an early age, but until the publication of Diagnosis: Acne Inversa, her book of the heart, she only wrote for herself. As a bookworm she reads passionately through all genres. Her professional diversity is clear in a varied career as a veterinary assistant, tax clerk, real estate agent and caregiver for dementia patients in a nursing home.

Shaken up by the diagnosis of Acne Inversa, she gains extensive knowledge of health topics over many years. Torn between success and defeat, she finally manages the disease. By knowing how to live a healthy lifestyle, eat right and have a positive self-image, even small steps can make a big difference. For years, I've thought about writing my disease in a guidebook for sufferers, creating a book I wished I had 30 years ago myself.

Acne Inversa - Get Out of My Life!

Reaching sufferers - Sharing knowledge - Saving quality of life - That's the goal.

INTRODUCTION

Dear Reader,

The book you are holding in your hands is one of the amazingly few books ever written in Germany about the disease acne inversa. Almost 30 years ago, when my disease first appeared, there was practically nothing to read or learn about it. It is even more frightening to me that nothing seems to have changed.

Even today, sufferers have to search for every little clue and piece of information in a library or on the Internet. Apart from scientific papers, which have been increasingly published in recent years and which the average person neither reads nor searches for, there is almost nothing about acne inversa. Diet books or personal development books abound.

Is acne inversa so irrelevant? Is it so irrelevant that no one has felt called to write something useful and understandable for everyone for so many years? This made me very sad and angry, so I finally started writing!

And that is why this book is aimed at people who are desperate for answers, who have been at a loss for a long time, who feel alone and abandoned, and who are sent from doctor to doctor and not taken seriously.

Acne inversa is a disease that affects the complete system and can assume catastrophic proportions. Most noticeable are the lesions on the affected areas of the skin. Acne Inversa is mistaken for other, much more harmless diseases, and if treated at all, it is treated incorrectly. As a result, the condition of many sufferers worsens day by day.

Improving the symptoms of acne inversa is possible for everyone who suffers from it.

However, there is no ONE perfect solution that helps everyone equally. As individual as the disease shows itself in all its facets, one must also deal with it in or-der to fight it.

Many doctors do not know what acne inversa is and how to treat this disease.

The information from this book can therefore also be used to approach one's own doctor as an informed patient. Thus, it becomes possible to Ask for a better and faster diagnosis and thus earlier treatment and enjoy much greater chances of help and improvement of symptoms.

My own experiences, backed up by literature, supplemented by information I have gathered, should bring you clarity and give you courage. Clarity about why acne inversa requires you to fight a battle against your own body every day, and courage to persevere until you were helped.

This book should be a practical help for you. I intend the options shown to help you find an individual way out of your dilemma. Even minor changes in everyday habits can lead to the goal.

I could not walk because I always had bumps somewhere. Sports were not possible either. Every time I exerted myself hard, I had four or five bumps again afterwards. In addition, there was the fear of what would happen if I was out and about and wounds oozed, an abscess formed or opened up. [A].

The report of a patient who has been suffering from acne inversa for eighteen years impressively shows the enormous proportions this disease can assume in those who suffer from it.

This skin disease is not just about one or two pimples that appear from time to time.

For a pubescent teenager complaining about a black-head on his nose, patients suffering from acne inversa have only a friendly smile. Their ordeal is much longer and the suffering greater: many speak of a loss of all quality of life, constant feelings of shame, severe pain and hardly imaginable effects on social life.

Often personal relationships become impossible, jobs are lost or employment is not possible at all because of an acute episode of the disease. Pain can sometimes be so severe that sports and hobbies must be abandoned.

Mental health suffers, and sufferers feel that life is slipping out of their hands. Some even have suicidal thoughts. In addition, the disease is often not recognized at all, which aggravates the symptoms and leads to secondary diseases.

Many sufferers are going from doctor to doctor, and no one can help them. Have someone has fobbed you off with the advice that you just need to wash better and take care of your skin, then it would get better? Have you tried every