Ever since i remember i used to pick at my lips, bite them and lick them. After a while i stopped doing it to my top lip and right now its perfectly soft and normal. my bottom one however is not. I used to lick my bottom lip alot and now you can notice where i have licked it as the bottom bit is perfect fine but the rest is not. Usrally the skin will form like a soft scab. it wont look like a scab, just another layer of skin which if left, will go hard and peel off by itself. when this happens, it wil slowfly form another 'scab' in the same place. i am always rubbing vasaline on it to help keep it moisturised but only turns out bad in the end. i have also tried it without vasaline but it only did the same. It gets alot worse when im out or talking to people than when im inside. Please help, this problem is getting me so down
Hello William, perhaps you are worrying too much about your lip and keep checking to see what is happening and perpetuating the cycle. You should try using the vaseline and training yourself not to touch your lips. Find something else to do or think of when you would normally be touching your lip to check it. Try putting vaseline on it every hour to bein with, then increase it to every 2 hours etc etc. Try to think of something else and see whether your lip improves, your top one did!
Good luck!
'bein' should say 'begin'!
Thanks for the reply. I barly touch or lick it anymore but its still like it. The only time i lick it is when im around people and i can feel its getting really dry. i can eaisily go a whole day without vasaline if im at home but when im outside im just thinking about it all the time. mabye your right about i should think about something else to take my mind of it when im out, thanks!