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hey everyone!
last week i was gonna post about this but i completely forgot. sorry about that..., you know how it is, get side tracked with so many things. especially with our 10 second attention span (thanks to this crap). and on top of that, All the drama that was goin on in my household (rolls eyes).
anyways...
i was getting ready the other night to go eat our with my bf and his mom, and i had this horrible skin pain on my face, across the chin and up around the L side of my face. you all know how that stuff sucks! i wanted to eat and enjoy my self so, and not worry about the pain. well i bought this stuff at the store recently for my dry itchy skin. it's called: SKINAID "all in one skin recovery treatment" by NEUTROGENA. it's for all kinds of things like minor cuts, burns, cracking, bites, itching, etc. and it's an analgesic cream, so it's supposed to numb.
well i figured that i'll give it a try and rub some on my painful skin and see if it helps. guess what??? the painful area was completely numbed that i even forgot about it! and the pain was gone for hrs! i went out to eat and just enjoyed my self, stuffed my self silly with no skin pain! in fact i didn't have to put anymore on till the next morning!
so i had to post this and suggest it for anyone who wants to give it a try! it worked awesome for me, so it should work for some of you, right? well take care everyone and i hope this works for you! God bless!
last week i was gonna post about this but i completely forgot. sorry about that..., you know how it is, get side tracked with so many things. especially with our 10 second attention span (thanks to this crap). and on top of that, All the drama that was goin on in my household (rolls eyes).
anyways...
i was getting ready the other night to go eat our with my bf and his mom, and i had this horrible skin pain on my face, across the chin and up around the L side of my face. you all know how that stuff sucks! i wanted to eat and enjoy my self so, and not worry about the pain. well i bought this stuff at the store recently for my dry itchy skin. it's called: SKINAID "all in one skin recovery treatment" by NEUTROGENA. it's for all kinds of things like minor cuts, burns, cracking, bites, itching, etc. and it's an analgesic cream, so it's supposed to numb.
well i figured that i'll give it a try and rub some on my painful skin and see if it helps. guess what??? the painful area was completely numbed that i even forgot about it! and the pain was gone for hrs! i went out to eat and just enjoyed my self, stuffed my self silly with no skin pain! in fact i didn't have to put anymore on till the next morning!
so i had to post this and suggest it for anyone who wants to give it a try! it worked awesome for me, so it should work for some of you, right? well take care everyone and i hope this works for you! God bless!
The skin pain may be the best part of Tramadol for me - that was the second thing I noticed after I started taking it. The first was than I was a lot less stiff in the morning, but the second was that my skin didn't hurt. It's such a contrast to how it was before that I almost feel numb by comparison.
I still remember that when I scratch an itch or anything like that. It used to be SO painful and now it's not.
I'm glad you found something that helps - the skin pain is the pits.
Have you tried biofreeze by chance, too? I am wondering if you have and know which product works better?
I do love neutrogena products all around :) I am so thrilled to learn of this! thank you!
hugs
I wonder if that is what is in what you purchased?
But all of this has got me wondering now.
They say that the pain is all in our brains. But why is it that when we use a lidocaine type of product for pain on our skin....the pain goes away?
If this is true, that the pain goes away.....then is it really in our heads to begin with?
My skin burns almost always, can't wear my regular clothes. I wear loose fitting pj's, wearing a bra drives me nuts (short trip).
The rubbing and tightness make my breasts burn even more...I am going to get this stuff and hope for the best.
I've have tried everything I can think of to reduce the burning, but so far...I'm still searching.
cool, gentle hugs.
wonderbaby, the way numbing the nerves works is, it interrupts the communication from those nerves to the brain. so basically the signal that there is pain never gets to the brain and so forth. so whether it's coming form the brain or not, it has to tell the brain in return that there is something wrong in that area. and lidocaine and the alike, prevent that communication. hope this helps!
lisa, for your psoriasis, just to be safe i would try putting some in a small area and see how you react to it. if it helps then try a bigger area. if it irritates, then you know not to use it. i think that this trial would make sense for your skin condition. but i really don't have psoriasis, so i'm just throwin this out there. hope it helps you! take care now!