Lidocaine cream over the counter
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They used Buffered Lidocaine injection which I did not feel any of.. I must admit, I did put over the counter Lidocaine cream all over my breast about an hour before the procedure. I used this Lidocaine cream on my arm before a tetanus shot that I had to get and was so afraid of and I was screaming for the nurse to WAIT but.. IT WAS ALREADY DONE! Helps a lot so you don't feel pain.
Nurse also gave me tips for next time I get an injection.
Maybe some lidocaine cream would help but I would get a prescription and not just an over the counter (the prescription lidocaine is stronger and also has the hydrocortizone cream in it).
Perhaps yours will let up a little like mine did for 2.5 weeks.
One thing I have noticed about all three of these drugs is that the side effects seem to pop up whenever they feel like it and then sometimes disappear for a few days or a day and then pop up again.
I also used lidocaine creame with hydrocortizone cream (prescription) and it numbs the outside. At times I used Prep. H cream but that was too irritating when the reactal/anal area was irritated. I did use Prep. H suppossitories at night. That helped (soothed). Later on I used Desitin cream. I had an entire counter of items that I used at various times depending on what the worst issue was.
Other suggestions are to drink a lot of water. Several quarts a day.
Some people ice the area (personally I think the cold hurts worse than the teeny needle poke)...Others have been able to get a 2% lidocaine gel from their pharmacist (usually used for premature ejaculation issues) and apply that to the area, but most just do it cold turkey... Have you started your shots yet? If so, and you are worried about the needle, it is a very teeny and short little thing and, when you finally get brave enough to "just do it", you barely feel it.
When I had the wire procedure this week, first they put in the IV needle which I barely felt because I had plastered numbing cream over my veins to help with the IV pain. I also plastered so much numbing cream over my breast that during the actual wire procedure, I barely felt any discomfort from the clamps, did not feel the needle from the numbing injection until it reached the deepest point, and then only for a second or two.
Ask your Dr. I'm pretty sure that it would depend on the cream. I was using a prescription NSAID cream before I got pregnant and had to stop once we found out because they don't know the risks and how much might actually get into your bloodstream. I know that most Dr.'s recommend tylenol as a safe pain killer during pregnancy.
Good Luck!
My doctor gave me a lidocaine patch to numb the pain, but for me it did not work. That does not mean that it did may not work for someone else however. It is commonly used for back pain. Also my neurologist said that one option to consider was capsaicin cream. He warned that it would be very painful at first and maybe make the TN worse before it got better. But that it technically would destroy the peripheral nerves on the surface, thus dulling the pain sensations.
An over the counter medication is any medication that can be purchased without a prescription "over the counter", but does not make the medication safer and needs to be taken according to the directions on the package and there is a need to be more vigilent and take into consideration individual health, the benefits versus the risks and potential interactions with any prescribed meidcations.
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