I can still see the one on my left eye but it is now significantly smaller and flatter, I’ll have to treat it again but will try banana peels. My right eye is pretty much gone but I’ll have to see how it heals.

This morning I took off the plasters and I won’t be putting them back on except maybe at night…I haven’t yet decided.

I have now switched to vitamin E oil and will continue to keep the area moist with this until the wound is healed completely. I also read somewhere that applying Vitamin E oil helps the xanth to not spread to other areas (I wish I could find where I saw this but it was ages ago that I read it).

Very promising as I feel like a human being again and am not afraid to go outside without sunglasses! Swelling still needs to go down a bit more, I’ve stopped icing it but I will do so again later. That’s all for now!

I am still using honey and keeping it covered throughout the day and night. It’s still quite swollen but there’s definite improvement.

On the morning of day 5, I did not look my best but it finally looked like the fat/cholesterol deposit underneath my skin was finally being unearthed and I was thrilled.

I never thought that I would be happy to see this disgusting crap on my eye but hey, never say never….

The following pics are the worst of the bunch so brace yourself.

It started out like this;

Then I took a shower and washed it with the running warm water and gently with a bit of soap and when I got out of the shower, the skin had broken and the fat was released!

I went back into the bathroom and turned on some warm water and GENTLY kept washing/pressing the water on the wounds until it all released.

The result?

Now here is where I wanted to stop. Although I saw that there was more underneath I was not willing to do anymore garlic treatments for fear of scarring.

I put honey on that bad boy, covered it up with a plaster, cooled it down with plastic balls and just chilled.

But then I had a thought, what about the banana peels??? That might be a gentler way to get out the rest right? RIGHT?

So that night, I cut out a piece of banana peels, taped in onto my eyelids and hoped for the best.

I’m just gonna hit you up with some pics, I took a few throughout that day, the first two in the morning and then the last two with some garlic bits on. The scab has really formed here by morning, I’m keeping up with keeping them cool with my little balls also remember the vaseline is very important!

I woke up to this. As you can see the treated area is look like a bruise now but it’s actually a scab starting to form.

Scab formation is a good sign as it shows you that the treatment is having an effect but you must keep them moist!!! If it becomes hard and comes off from you picking at them it might leave you with a scar.

While we are on this topic I would like to share a tidbit of information on wounds in general. Wounds should remain covered at all times. They do not need to breathe, they do not need to be left alone with a scab, it is better to keep it moist and covered until it goes away. Scabs give you scars. Look it up, it’s true!

Also, instead of using antibacterial ointments I use pure, organic honey. Not the processed kind in grocery stores, look at the ingredients and if it says anything another other than pure honey then honey, you need to keep looking.

I now do this for all of my minor wounds, slap on some honey or vaseline, cover it with a plaster (band-aid) and wait it out. I clean the would and switch plasters daily.

Xanthelasma is a it’s own beast but once the wound got going this is what I did.

But we haven’t gotten there quite yet.

On this day I also did two treatments, as mentioned previously, with the balls and meditation during treatment, used vaseline and went to sleep.

Would you give up at this point? You can’t leave the house without sunglasses and it doesn’t really look like it’s getting any better but you must hang in there kids!

Sunday night I did the following;

• Pressed a fresh clove of newly purchased garlic into a glass jar
• Mixed it in its own garlic juices that came out of the press
• Let it sit for 10 minutes after closing the jar (so that no bacteria from the air would get in)
• After the wait I took a cotton swab (q-tip) and absorbed some juice then put a couple of the garlic bits onto it
• Stretched out my lid with one hand and pressed the swab onto the xanth spot, trying my best not to touch the surrounding eye but this is difficult
• Held it in place for 10-15 minutes or as long as I could handle
• I then took another swab and did the next eye as my affliction is on both upper lids
• After the treatment I took a frozen little plastic ball (instead of ice) wrapped in thin paper towel and held it in on my eyes to ease the burning sensation and to relieve the inevitable swelling
• Put vaseline on the wound, this is a very important step to keep the area moist

Expect it to burn, if it doesn’t burn the you’ve got the wrong garlic, organic is best but I used regular local garlic (not imported as it is fresher). My eyes watered quite a bit during the time I held it in place and hurt quite a bit.

Another tip is to surround the xanth spots with petroleum jelly (vaseline) before applying the garlic so that the healthy skin won’t get burned.

I then went to sleep and awoke to the below pics.

My xanth spots are close to the corner of my lids as you can see where most of the swelling is.

There is zero improvement  after the first treatment which is why people get  deterred as it has not punctured the xanths it just made me look like I’ve been punched in the face.

First thing I did that morning was take my little plastic balls to ease the swelling which it did.

I also did something that I have not read up on. I figured the swelling is due to an allergic reaction and I had some antihistamine tablets kicking around so I took one.

The swelling went down, the xanth did not look any better.

I took another antihistamine later that day. I also did another treatment that morning and that night.

I varied the treatment a little. Instead of using a cotton bud, I took a cotton pad and cut it up in the shape/size of my xanth. I used medical tape to hold it in place.

• I crushed new garlic
• Let it sit for 10 min
• Took the bits of cotton and let them marinate in the garlic juice for another minute
• Cut the medical tape to make it just a little bigger than the cotton bits
• Took out the cotton bits and put it on my eye
• Stuck the medical tape on top of the cotton
• Took my frozen little plastic balls and placed then over the tape to ease the burning sensation during treatment

Those 10-15min can seem like the longest minutes of your life so I put on a guided meditation video from youtube that was exactly 15 min, laid down and breathed my way through it.

This treatment was MUCH better than the first due to the cooling sensation and my concentrating on something else. Plus meditation is always good for you 🙂

What are these plastic balls you ask? I bought them at a local shop, they are used as an alternative to ice to keep your drink cold and not water it down. The benefit of using these instead of covered ice is that it doesn’t melt and therefore doesn’t wet your eyelids. Also they don’t feel quite as cold as regular ice. I highly recommend them! If you can’t find them then just dab ice covered with a paper towel, don’t hold it in place for longer than a few seconds at a time.

That whole day I ensured to put vaseline on and after the second treatment that day (total of 3 now) I went to sleep.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton