Do you know approximately how long it would take before i can see some visible results? I'm really tired trying to convince my mum this would work (she's on a typical diet and she believes i'm ruining my health, especially when the symptoms get worse) and it has been really trying..

Is it bad to suddenly go zero carb? I tried that for a few days and I had a whole host of symptoms. I've noticed that any time I eat a lot of meat I break out and feel very sick. I might have a kidney problem from the medication though. Is it better slowly breaking into it?

goodsamaritan, i've seen your eczema cure blog and I think it's awesome. I've been wanting to do a kidney detox(chronic kidney failure/diabetes is a side effect and I went to the doctor recently to do a blood test) but I don't think there's any avocado leaves around. Is there something else available? I looked at Dr Tsai's site but it did not seem to have a Singapore address. I'll try the acupuncture though =)

Hi all, I'm really new to this and I need a little help..

I'm 23, I started having eczema at age 18 and there was a point where it was exceptionally bad (it was literally all over, no skin spared). I was in constant pain and it itched like crazy and no amount of cortisteroids/oral steroids made it better. Eventually I was given seroquel (an antidepressant) to help with my insomnia. That seemed to work until half a year into it where my eczema broke out full force, in fact worse than before, and my scalp kept oozing some weird yellow liquid. That's when I decided to stop the medication cold turkey.

I had to take the term off (school) because I felt so sick, and that's when I started to read about all these diets. I tried water fasting, juice fasting, etc, eventually, my condition improved a little and I was eczema free except for my scalp and face. It has been very dry and would ooze the weird yellow liquid when I scratched it. I've tried various things, a fruitarian diet, raw vegan, recently raw paleo (this seemed to worsen it though). I don't know what I'm missing, and I have no idea whether its a detox effect from previous medication. I've tried to find forums about seroquel withdrawal to check the effects but I don't seem to find many, although people did complain of having an itchy scalp.

Any suggestions on what I should do? Thanks!

(here's the wiki article on seroquel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetiapine )