Turmeric-Free Challenge

It began 3 weeks ago with a dull pain in my lower abdomen. It happened a moment after dinner and it came with servings of diarrhoea as well. I felt sick.

I had an Indian curry for dinner, but it wasn't unusual. I eat curry all the time. But this time it seemed my digestive system didn't want to play nice with the turmeric. I'm not exactly sure it was the turmeric but this incident prompted me to stop taking my daily 3/4 teaspoon dose of turmeric.

As my scalp was pretty much free of irritation and folliculitis, I thought I would also take this opportunity to see how long I could go without the folliculitis starting up again.

Well, 2 weeks in, and I could feel a couple of spots coming up on the back of my scalp. They weren't the overtly infected spots that I used to get, but they were folliculitis nonetheless. I decided to test it further.

A couple days later, more spots would appear, along with certain areas that felt a little tingly and itchy.

I drew the line there, and decided to recommence the 3/4 teaspoon daily dose of turmeric. So there, about 2.5 weeks before I would have to restart the turmeric.

For the few days since recommencing, the follucilitis seems to be back under control.

This has proved once again that this natural remedy, turmeric, is working wonders for my folliculitis condition on my scalp.

But another thing is, perhaps once a week or once a fortnight, skipping a dose to give my digestive system a break so I don't get the abdominal pains.

This turmeric is powerful stuff!

Stopped Taking Turmeric for Folliculitis

I had to stop taking turmeric completely last Tuesday. In fact, I did not take the third dose on Monday night as my abdominal pains had gotten worse and was affected by diarrhoea. The pains and diarrhoea have now gone away. I've noticed a few new spots of folliculitis appear here and there on my scalp but it's not to a level I'm too concerned about. I'll see how many more days it will take for the folliculitis to flare-up again.

Experimenting with Turmeric Doses for Folliculitis

Continuing through the past week on Turmeric twice a day, the folliculitis on my scalp started to flare-up again. However, my abdominal pains did go away.

Given it's the weekend, I went back to taking Turmeric 3 times a day yesterday and almost immediately my abdominal pain returned.

Today I'm trialing a 1/2 teaspoon dose 3 times a day to see whether the frequency of dosage rather than the size of each dose has a positive effect on eliminating the folliculitis. However, I am still having abdominal pains today on the smaller doses. Will report back next week.

Is Turmeric Affecting My Digestive System?

I've now been drinking turmeric 3 times daily for 4 weeks now and it is continuing to control the folliculitis on my scalp and for that I'm very glad. But I'm not sure if the turmeric is now causing a bit of abdominal pains which started after dinner yesterday, or it could just be a small bout of food poisoning. My suspicions point to the turmeric because I've noticed it has softened my stool since I begun taking it, almost like a mild laxative particularly over the past 2 weeks.

So today I will reduce drinking turmeric to 2 times daily to see if that is sufficient to control the folliculitis and to reduce its impact to my digestive system.

Also, thought I might provide an update that my facial skin and scalp have returned to its former greasiness prior to taking Roaccutane.