Dread abuse, how long will it take to recover?

i started my dreads on March 21, 2010 i back combed and waxed. then like 4 days later i washed out as much wax as i could because i hated the feeling and crocheted it. then i crocheted some extensions in then because my hair is so short. i took the extensions out in the last week of May because i felt like that was just slowing the process down even more. I just let them go natural and am just starting to do the BS wash and ACV rinse...and try my HARDEST to leave my hands out of my hair lol. its so hard though because my roots are goin nuts and just the middle of my dreads are loose and i have some little loose hairs and loopies. i dont know if this is a good sign or not...im new to the whole dread life lol. how long do you think it will take for my poor babies to recover? and any suggestions on how i could help them recover a little better?

here are some pics sorry if they arent that clear

updated by @tab-tabs: 01/13/15 09:03:41PM

sorry make that march 21, 2011 lol

they dont look as bad as i expected but seems like there may still be wX?

they dont look crochetted to hell so thats a good thing

the looseness and the loops are a good sign that they are progressing fairly normally

there liooks to be a lil stifffness which could be from wax or crochet but since they dont look super tight d guess wax more then crochet but hard to tell for sure

good news is that doing wax removal, no maatter which method u used (maybe not theheat method) should also assist slightly in crochet recovery id guess

so id try doing lil more wax removal to be safe and let em go

they really dont look too abused so your in luck

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oh thank goodness!!! would the bs wash be a safe bet to remove the wax?