LS & PICA -> My story sorry it's long!

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I am telling my story because I believe that the cornstarch has

messed up my immune system and this is how I got LS, as I believe LS

is a disease of the auto immune system.

For years I have been a corn starch eater. . .yes, I can admit that

I have PICA. I believe this is what caused me to have Lichen

Sclerosis. Looking back, I never thought nothing was wrong with

eating cornstarch. You see my mother was a cornstarch eater for

years, she ate the ARGO Laundry Starch that came in chunks. As a

child we used to sneak and eat a few pieces when she put her box

down. Anyway. . .after a while when I could not find the ARGO

Laundry Starch (they stopped selling it for a while in my

neighborhood) I started eating the ARGO Corn Starch that you cook

with. This had a strange sweet taste and I loved the very dry taste

in my mouth.

At first I would only eat a very small amount like a teaspoon but

without realizing it I graduated to using a tablespoon and instead of

once a day I went up to about a cup a day. It had gotten so bad

that my husband caught me. So I started buying a box a day and

sucking it through a straw on the drive home from work that way I

could eat as much as I wanted before I got home. . .I mean I would

literally sit in the car with the starch in a bag and suck it through

the straw as I drove home.

I started noticing a discharge, heavy itch and my entire vagina but

to my anus had this funny shiny white look about it.. The doctor

told me the white spots were from vitiligo and he started treating

me for reoccurring yeast infection which turned out to be a really

bad flare up of LS. Finally, I came to realize that once I stopped

eating the cornstarch the discharge would stop and the itching was no

longer there. However, I was unfortunately hooked on the cornstarch

and began eating it again. I am too embarrassed to tell the doctor

about my cornstarch eating but I have learned through the internet

that it can be due to anemia (which I have) so now I am being treated

for that with a combination of iron pills and b12 complex.

Yesterday I tried to each some cornstarch but " FORTUNATELY " I

immediately felt as though I was going to throw up so hopefully, I

will not feel the need to eat it again.

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