" Title might be Off Label Efudex and Wickedly Exotic Scars I guess I’ll never forget, though I’d like to. Facial scars make it hard to forget. While sleeping facial fluid leaks then hardens, in the fabric of my pillowcase. I roll over and leave half of my face behind, stuck to the fabric. Vivid in my memory. It’s during the Glazed Donut stage of this cream that I leave half of my face on that pillow. 2 things 1. Pain, we all experience pain and I guess it comes down to individual tolerances. 2. This cream is a terrible friend who wants only what is best for you. And I say this cream lies. This cream produces what I call the Glazed Donut or Fish Scale Stage (weeks 2 to 6). And during these weeks -- I'm sorry to be alive. It’s the pain which makes me shrink and I admit I'm not tough enough. If you suffer from this affliction, Dear Reader, I truly feel sorry for you. Me and this cream -- we're old friends. I know everything there is to know about this cream and what it does to skin. I first met this cream 25 years ago I met her up close and personal. I'm around 35 years old and following doctor's advice I apply cream for 3 weeks twice a day. I have photos, it is a severe reaction covering my face, neck and chest. The doctor tells me i have the damage of a 55 year old man. A few months later I did it again for 3 weeks. What can I say… I want the target dead and I'm willing to suffer to kill this target. Decades of annual skin doctor visits have Ieft their scars. Freezing leaves behind a puckered scar, like small bullets might leave. Scoop and scallop scars are distinctive, perfect ovals or elongated ovals from a dragging technique. Then my ubiquitous cut and sew scars, too many to count. Finally, comes the cream scars on top of all other scars. Used long enough this cream leaves what only may be called wickedly exotic scars, swirls and highways interconnected – it’s bizarre and it is on the side of my face and neck. All these years later and I'm still the same, I want the target dead. And in order to kill -- I’ve gone Off-Label with this topical cream. 10 weeks plus I've experienced and this is what I’ve discovered. In my experience weeks 3 4 and 5 are the worst. My treatment area is on fire and any sort of relief seems far away. Only in the shower I make best efforts to touch and then lightly manipulate then scrape my treatment area. Likewise, weeks 4 and 5 -- I make best efforts to push, prod and pinch the skin between thumb and finger. And after some practice I feel ‘pools’ of fluid inside my skin, deeper maybe like pockets of fluid similar to deep blisters. I try to massage these pools and after some practice it often empties out onto my skin surface. Around week 5 massages produce a lot of this fluid. And it feels like the fluid is deep seated and comes from deep within. This stuff is slicky feeling… it is sebaceous fluid… definitely a bizarre feeling. This is why I do this squeezing and manipulations. In my book sebaceous fluid gets between my weapon and my target. Squeezing makes a sticky mess use warm water soft cloth cleanup. Also you might need to blot for 5 or 10 minutes because sebaceous continues to leak onto the skin surface. After blotting and when it is dry and the skin is ‘open' I apply thickly. These are tough weeks and sebaceous fluid flows. Good Luck. Somewhere around week 6 treatment area becomes less total on fire red and more defined like individual red volcano / crevices spread aound an open field and I can see my enemy, whereas previously the treatment area was totally red and on fire. Now the pain becomes manageable and my enemy is in focus…from here on out? This my game to win. These red volcano crevices continue to emit sebaceous fluid/scabs and I continue manipulation and scraping and when the skin is open then pack the cream into the volcano….some weeks later you’ve won the volcano crevice is gone. In its place is nice new skin. Took 12 weeks for the Volcano to disappear on my left elbow... that same elbow which hung outta my car window with the radio playing my favorite song so long ago. Other observations of an Efudex Junkie. I guess the biggest surprise was the red skin reaction behind my ear. Right there in the fold of ear and skull. Just for grins I applied the topical cream behind my ear. The longer I use it the deeper it eats into my skin and the cooler the scar. 3 weeks of cream application only takes a patient up to what I call the “fish scale" or glazed donut reaction. Sebaceous fluid, like in a blister, covers your skin and hardens into scabs. These scabs are like a sheet of small hardened scabs and they rub-click into each other - this is the worst time. And pretty-much everybody stops here, its too painful. Usually 3-4 weeks into application. Another discovery is it matters how thick you apply and how often. Try once day over longer time. If you go into the sun you will feel your skin burn. What about the idea of applying until skin stops reacting? In my book, this last tactic tells me—target is dead and this is what I do. But the coolest discovery is using this cream to find the target. To diagnose I use this cream on normal looking skin and only after some weeks does my skin react. See latest photos. Doctors know the pain is intolerable and only hope the patient applies for 21 days. I think patients should apply for as long as necessary. Your body will heal with new skin and to me? This is evidence the cancer is gone. My understanding is this cream acts as a debreeder and attacks only mutated cells, leaving normal cells alone. In other words, this cream slows down cancer breeding to the point where my own immune system can win. Right? Here's what I think, doctors have to see cancer – see with their eyes before they treat. After doctor's see the cancer - it accepted medical practice for heavy dose treatments, often debilitating the patient. Archaic no? Wait until you see cancer or symptoms? Then treat. In my book, by the time you see cancer - it’s too late. How about this as an alternate approach. Maybe something proactive, something like a Micro-Drip dosage anti-cancer meds thus creating a human body which is lightly toxic to cancer. I don't know, it’s just a thought. Seems to make sense to me. C'mon wait until you can see the cancer? There's a reason it’s called the Practice of Medicine."