this stuff does not go away!
May. 5th, 2012 05:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerAs the first and most unpleasant areas of PI blistering have begun to scab over, scale off, and turn into big red blotches (that are intensely sensitive so that anything, like, say, other areas of skin touching it feel like rubbing pins down your flesh), suggesting eventual recovery, the areas that started coming up as secondary irritations are beginning to blister, and new areas are starting to come up with little red bumps. It's the whole cycle of life.
Plus, after I put on some anti-itch stuff and went to bed around 1, I woke up around 3.30-4.00, itching FIERCELY all over. I got up, put on one sort of treatment, No effect, felt even worse. Got up again, tried a different one. Same. Had a shower, hot as I could (again, at 4 in the morning) and got some relief. Second or third night in a row that's happened. I'll wash all the bedding again, in really hot water, in case there's some residual oil somewhere on or around the bed, but I think it's just got into the bloodstream or something and is spreading around willy nilly. Maybe I can sleep in the afternoon, in a chair. If, of course, no parts of my body are touching other ones...
Plus, it's five in the morning, but it's still 78*F inside with all the fans going, and I'm sweating. While I read depressing news articles on al Jazeera. Lovely way to start the weekend. And, my god, the birds are making a racket outside: noisy bastards!
Plus, after I put on some anti-itch stuff and went to bed around 1, I woke up around 3.30-4.00, itching FIERCELY all over. I got up, put on one sort of treatment, No effect, felt even worse. Got up again, tried a different one. Same. Had a shower, hot as I could (again, at 4 in the morning) and got some relief. Second or third night in a row that's happened. I'll wash all the bedding again, in really hot water, in case there's some residual oil somewhere on or around the bed, but I think it's just got into the bloodstream or something and is spreading around willy nilly. Maybe I can sleep in the afternoon, in a chair. If, of course, no parts of my body are touching other ones...
Plus, it's five in the morning, but it's still 78*F inside with all the fans going, and I'm sweating. While I read depressing news articles on al Jazeera. Lovely way to start the weekend. And, my god, the birds are making a racket outside: noisy bastards!
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Date: 2012-05-09 12:47 am (UTC)I keep bottles of Tecnu at home and at work. It's one of the few things that will dissolve the oil. If I suspect I've been exposed, or if I feel my skin start to itch, I wash with it several time. That usually is enough to prevent a rash, but even if a rash develops, getting rid of the oil shortens the suffering.