suffered the most excruciating burning until I leapt out of bed and re-washed my face
HATE. Especially because sometimes I get this random hypersensitivity autoimmune thing where if even my fingers touch my face in the wrong way, it'll get all burny and blotchy and red there. I had the whole saga once on the way to mini medical school where my face was peelingish dry, but it turned out it was peelingish ubersensitive, so when I put on some lotion (supposed to be safe for faces and everything) in the car and then made my mom idle the car in drop off bit near the medical building whilst I spat furiously into a napkin to try to wipe it off. Got home and was still all reddy and tried to put on some (pure) aloe vera to soothe the burn bits. Reacted to that. It's horrible in that some days, I'm all "Oh, let's put on this and this and this" and nothing will happen, but others (like today, and I have no idea why today and not yesterday or tomorrow or whatever), where I can feel that if I try to put anything on, it's going to hurt like a bitch.
That happens to me sometimes with the bp, too. On my cheekbones and the middle of my forehead, generally.
I suspect moisturising will help that somewhat.
Me too. But I never do because I tend to do my skin stuff at night (I'm never awake enough in the morning early enough to do anything but throw on clothes), and then I just put on the bp or whatever and go to bed. It seems like if you moisturize right before or after, you'd kinda dilute it.
What was it like on your chest/shoulders?
Most of the time, I can't even feel it. I use a light layer on the whole area and occasionally blobs on the spots if I'm willing to leave my shirt off long enough and/or ruin whatever I'm wearing (or don't think about how it'll ruin stuff) and there's no burning or anything because the skin is so much thicker.
I forget what it's called, but it's... something to do with a build-up of keratin?
Keratosis pilaris? Where it looks like chicken skin or whatever? I get everything possible that has to do with blocked glands/pores/whatever, so me too to probably whatever it was. Seriously. It's horrible.
That would kill my skin.
Yeah, it does. I can only use that on actual zits or risk pain/redness/burning, though it's really good for quick zit drying. Especially if you blob it on and put a bandaid over it so it stays wet--it's not absorbing if it dries out right away, so the longer the cream stays creamy, the better it's going to work.
It clears and reduces your pores and everything, leaving it all looking totally clear
I like this prospect. I've got a not great complexion to begin with--I look sorta mottled sometimes, LOL--so anything would be better.
IT'S BEEN FREAKING MONTHS NOW, AND ALL I'VE HAD IS A MINOR SHOWING OF OLD STUFF?
Consider yourself lucky. My whole fakeout, I'mgoneI'mback thing is getting intolerable. I can't believe that I still have any iron in my body after 7 (I looked at the pack, it's closer to) 6 weeks of this. Plus, I think I'm supporting the entire tampon industry by my lonesome.
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Date: 2007-12-14 06:47 pm (UTC)HATE. Especially because sometimes I get this random hypersensitivity autoimmune thing where if even my fingers touch my face in the wrong way, it'll get all burny and blotchy and red there. I had the whole saga once on the way to mini medical school where my face was peelingish dry, but it turned out it was peelingish ubersensitive, so when I put on some lotion (supposed to be safe for faces and everything) in the car and then made my mom idle the car in drop off bit near the medical building whilst I spat furiously into a napkin to try to wipe it off. Got home and was still all reddy and tried to put on some (pure) aloe vera to soothe the burn bits. Reacted to that. It's horrible in that some days, I'm all "Oh, let's put on this and this and this" and nothing will happen, but others (like today, and I have no idea why today and not yesterday or tomorrow or whatever), where I can feel that if I try to put anything on, it's going to hurt like a bitch.
That happens to me sometimes with the bp, too. On my cheekbones and the middle of my forehead, generally.
I suspect moisturising will help that somewhat.
Me too. But I never do because I tend to do my skin stuff at night (I'm never awake enough in the morning early enough to do anything but throw on clothes), and then I just put on the bp or whatever and go to bed. It seems like if you moisturize right before or after, you'd kinda dilute it.
What was it like on your chest/shoulders?
Most of the time, I can't even feel it. I use a light layer on the whole area and occasionally blobs on the spots if I'm willing to leave my shirt off long enough and/or ruin whatever I'm wearing (or don't think about how it'll ruin stuff) and there's no burning or anything because the skin is so much thicker.
I forget what it's called, but it's... something to do with a build-up of keratin?
Keratosis pilaris? Where it looks like chicken skin or whatever? I get everything possible that has to do with blocked glands/pores/whatever, so me too to probably whatever it was. Seriously. It's horrible.
That would kill my skin.
Yeah, it does. I can only use that on actual zits or risk pain/redness/burning, though it's really good for quick zit drying. Especially if you blob it on and put a bandaid over it so it stays wet--it's not absorbing if it dries out right away, so the longer the cream stays creamy, the better it's going to work.
It clears and reduces your pores and everything, leaving it all looking totally clear
I like this prospect. I've got a not great complexion to begin with--I look sorta mottled sometimes, LOL--so anything would be better.
IT'S BEEN FREAKING MONTHS NOW, AND ALL I'VE HAD IS A MINOR SHOWING OF OLD STUFF?
Consider yourself lucky. My whole fakeout, I'mgoneI'mback thing is getting intolerable. I can't believe that I still have any iron in my body after
7(I looked at the pack, it's closer to) 6 weeks of this. Plus, I think I'm supporting the entire tampon industry by my lonesome.