Peeling Lips

My lips have been peeling since about September...yes, September...that is four going on five, long months! And when I say peel, I mean sheets of skin peeling off every two days. In addition to sheets of skin peeling off it was also affecting my jaw from me constantly rubbing my lips together. I don't know what has caused it, I suspect some sort of deficiency from breastfeeding. I have tried everything...Burt's bees, unpetroleum jelly, Medicated Chapstick, Blistex Lip Medex, and even that Neosporin Lip Health that is supposed to heal chapped lips in three days! I also tried taking extra supplements. I had read about an iron and B Vitamin deficiency, so I added that into my diet for a month as a test. Nothing has worked, until now! I posted a thread on a mothering.com discussion board and someone suggested lanolin. I had some Lansinol lanolin left over from the early days of breastfeeding and decided to give it a whirl. It works! The lips are certainly not completely healed. I haven't been bringing the bottle with me to work, I have only been using it when I am home, but it is fantastic. It is so thick that I only need to apply it 3 or 4 times a day, versus every 15-30 minutes with other stuff. I do plan on going to a Chinese Medicine Doctor in the next few months and am hopeful that they can find a root cause of the issue, but until then, lanolin is my best friend!