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Chapped lips
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Alright, so it's not exactly life threatening, but I'd still like to get rid. It's been a couple of months now and my lips still aren't back to normal. Lip balm doesn't seem to do much at all, so any ideas?
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Though if you have masculinity issues, then maybe not
My dad likes "chapstick" a nice manly lip balm.
I fully agree with this one! I get chapped lips quite badly, especially during the winter and this is what I do. Works a miracle!!
Obviously I've got no idea how severely chapped your lips are, but when I was younger I used to get really chapped lips and lip balm was never going to soothe them because it was actually a fungal infection (I know not nice). A trip to my GP and a prescription for a special cream meant that my lips were completely back to normal within a week. If some of the other (pretty good) suggestions don't seem to make a difference it might just be worth taking a trip to see your GP. Also check out TheSite's article on sore lips here
Hope you get them sorted soon
I've actually needed a daily application of Vaseline or a lip balm since I was 15. I'm now 26. I'd suffered on and off with it since I was 10, but it would go away entirely for a while, before comming back again. I think the worse case was when I was about 13. My lips became so chapped that I ended up with a thick, red ring around my lips. It made me look like a clown. It was agony. Weirdly, in school, which wasn't short of dickheads, not a single person mocked me for it. They must've thought I was dying of something. Anyway, my mum said that if it didn' improve, she'd take me the doctors', but it cleared up not long after she said that.
Anyway, since about 15, it's never gone away. It's fluctuated in severity, but it's never gone away entirely. Interestingly, my bottom lip is the one that suffers worse, which is the opposite case to the early years, when it was mostly my top lip. It's not been as bad in recent years than it was around age 15-21, but I'm still applying it several times a day. If I don't, they get very dry and feel all scaly and uncomfortable. There's a permanent pink like below my bottom lip. It's only noticable if you look close up, but it's there and has been permanently since I was around 15.
A few years ago, I went to see a doctor about it. She told me it wasn't a medical condition. I just left it. When I tell people this, they say that it seems I was fobbed off. Chapped lips not being a medical condition doesn't make much sense to me though.
I once went to a doctor, a few years ago
A 'bump'? This is practically raising the dead!
Well, yeah. I thought I'd look in the search engine, rather than create a new thread about it.
If anyone knows of a miracle cure though, please share.
Keep away from any kind of lip balm with petroleum. It just makes your lips thirsty for more and dries them out. So get rid of yer Carmex and go look for something natural - ie lavender oil based.
Darn it. I'm using Vaseline Lip Therapy at the moment. Any product suggestions?
I can't hold out for a week. I've went with out for two or three days and it was hell.
I bought some from Etsy.com. Honest, homemade, stuff.
http://www.pawpawshop.co.uk/?gclid=CKbr3vugqJkCFQ0FZgodBycYpQ
Not cheap but it works better than any lip stuff I have ever tried! Also really good for lots of other skin problems
If you have only used vaseline lip stuff, perhaps you are allergic to something in it. And I definatly second Dancing Horse and the petroleum, terrible stuff.
As for chapstick this time around I'll go with burts bees w/ pomegranite.
http://www.myburtsbees.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=burts-bees-pomegran-lip
No, I don't lick my lips ever, otherwise, I'd have to re-apply the vaseline. I sometimes use chapsticks too, but it doesn't remove the dependency.
Yeah, I'll check out that site of Dancing Horse's. If that doesn't work, I'll see if I can see someone about it.
Yup, that's probably the best way of dealing with chapped lips.
Why did no one think of that before?