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Post by Lianne on Dec 1, 2004 1:42:39 GMT -5
if i even spelled that right...
anyways, i thought it would be cool to have a thread where there could be all the old secrets to fix zits, and oily skin, and stuff. Because girls i know for sure wouldnt mind this thread. (at least i wouldnt)
my first question is zit related, i rarely get them but when i do they are there forever lol. Does the toothpaste thing really work? im scared to try it without an OK.
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Post by d on Dec 1, 2004 11:41:37 GMT -5
Great thread for girls...so I guess the first reply coming from a guy is kinda funny LOL
I've heard the toothpast thing works. I've also heard that washing a popped pimple with salt water before applying the toothpaste is helpful. Also, taking a dose of Ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil) before bed will lower the redness and inflammation a bit.
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Post by En on Dec 1, 2004 14:55:19 GMT -5
I shouldn't be laughing, but I am. I think I'm just surprised that this thread is here, but in a pleased kind of way
Salt water is good for a lot of things, particularly for helping skin to heal, and that goes for knee scrapes and papercuts as well as zits. Slow healing can also be the result of poor circulation and/or dehydration - so drinking your eight glasses of water and exercising help too. For people with uber-bad circulation, like for example me, ginkgo helps - there are several dietary-supplement type things made from ginkgo extract. But they don't replace water and exercise.
This might sound silly, but do any of you ever wake up with cramps in your upper arms? I've been getting them a lot, and I suspect I'm just sleeping on my arms wrong, but if any of you have clever ideas for how to deal with that, I'm so all ears.
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Post by d on Dec 1, 2004 15:00:13 GMT -5
I'm laughing now because I've actually gone through the cramped arms myself (and upper legs). Again, as is usually the case, hydration remains important. I also started making it a point to stretch really good before I go to bed and as soon as I wake up in the morning. That seems to help.
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Post by En on Dec 1, 2004 16:17:40 GMT -5
Yeah, actually I was wondering whether part of the problem might be that I'm dehydrated enough that my blood pressure is even lower than usual. (It's usually like 95/80, and I've got a ridiculously slow pulse too - 54, which is nuts for someone who only gets about 10 min. exercise in each day.) So when I sleep on my arms I cut off my own circulation. Bleah.
Hey, another thing about zits - Visine. It gets the red out. Seriously, I've used it plenty of times, and the only thing you have to be careful about is to let it dry on your zit, then gently wipe away any salt that stays on your skin with a damp cloth. It works!
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Post by Nie on Dec 1, 2004 19:48:34 GMT -5
En, since you have bad circulation and I'm going to assume you now spend a good deal of your day standing in your bookstore, you've probably found your leags and feets get pretty sore? It teds to be to lack of circulation. I get it all the time with my job too. I've foujnd that laying down on my back and sticking my legs up in the air against a wall for half an hour each evening when I get home, helps to drain all that excess fluid back out of my legs and feet. It's a great way to get in a little reading each evening as well.
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Post by Lianne on Dec 2, 2004 1:03:53 GMT -5
Ooh! i know why cramping may occur: apparantly if you are low on potassium you will get cramps, which makes sense to me becuse potassium is part of active transport for your cells *nerd*
i get really bad charley-horses in the night to the point where i wake up screaming. Anyone? lol
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Post by hermoine on Dec 2, 2004 8:05:20 GMT -5
This might sound silly, but do any of you ever wake up with cramps in your upper arms? I've been getting them a lot, and I suspect I'm just sleeping on my arms wrong, but if any of you have clever ideas for how to deal with that, I'm so all ears. I do get cramps while I'm sleeping, but normally it's in the part under the knee(what do you call it? ) It's probably because I have really weird dreams so I find kicking around. It hurts!! So there I am, in the middle of the night, embracing my knee to make it stop. It does work at least. My mum says it's because I don't drink a lot of milk so I don't get enough calcium. Personally, I think it has something to do with the strain on the muscle.
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Post by d on Dec 2, 2004 10:21:46 GMT -5
My wife wakes up with scream-inducing, painful charlie-horses in the middle of the night. I don't really know how to prevent that, but she's lucky that she has me to massage and put Icy-Hot on when it does happen
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Post by Lianne on Dec 2, 2004 13:02:24 GMT -5
Mum says its cos i sleep with my toes pointed.
so maybe herm, you point your feet up cos that strais the back of the knee a bit.
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Post by Nie on Dec 2, 2004 20:49:52 GMT -5
Another remedy.
If you're feeling really tense and stressed, get a friend to give you a massage and then give them one back. Giving someone else a massage, if done properly, can relax you just as much as recieving one.
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Post by En on Dec 3, 2004 12:42:11 GMT -5
En, since you have bad circulation and I'm going to assume you now spend a good deal of your day standing in your bookstore, you've probably found your leags and feets get pretty sore? It teds to be to lack of circulation. I get it all the time with my job too. I've foujnd that laying down on my back and sticking my legs up in the air against a wall for half an hour each evening when I get home, helps to drain all that excess fluid back out of my legs and feet. It's a great way to get in a little reading each evening as well. So I tried that yesterday, and today I practically skipped to the post office because I feel so much better
Makes sense, though. My hands swell up when I walk for a long time at speed; so I knew my lymphatic system was about worthless already. But this helps compensate for what my lymphatic system isn't doing, so yay.
Ooh, potassium - that would be a good idea anyway - and bananas are fairly cheap. Zeph, that might help with your night cramps, too - eating bananas. When I used to get killer muscle cramps after helping people move or some other serious labour, a friend of mine made me eat a banana and take an aspirin - the aspirin was to break up lactic acid, which builds up in your muscles when you work really hard and then contributes to aches the next day.
Get this: my grandmother puts Preparation H around her eyes when she's been crying. She says it reduces the swelling
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Post by Fantasia on Dec 3, 2004 16:09:24 GMT -5
Actually, that's true En. Miss America nominees and models use it to rduce puffiness around the eyes.
Does anyone know a good cure for hiccups? I'm spaztic about them. If I ever get the hiccups, I'm guarenteed to get them again that same day. It's crazy. I've tried the straw-in-your-mouth-while-drinking thing, I've tried saying watermelon slowly, which my friends assure me really works, I've tried holding my breath and a load of other cures, but none of them work. Anyone? ;D
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Post by Lianne on Dec 3, 2004 17:38:46 GMT -5
as soon as i feel i am going to hiccup, i breath in. a few times and they usually stop. im bad about them too.
or if someone is there tell them so say something like this
"you have the hiccups? Thats not true if you hace the hiccups then hiccup right now for me" and of course you never can right on que, then its a mental thing and they never come.
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Post by hermoine on Dec 4, 2004 2:33:51 GMT -5
Ooh, potassium - that would be a good idea anyway - and bananas are fairly cheap. Zeph, that might help with your night cramps, too - eating bananas. When I used to get killer muscle cramps after helping people move or some other serious labour, a friend of mine made me eat a banana and take an aspirin - the aspirin was to break up lactic acid, which builds up in your muscles when you work really hard and then contributes to aches the next day.
I eat a banana every morning En; it's a part of the mere breakfast I do take. But I haven't had a cramp in a while, it's true. So maybe, my eating them, has really helped.
I loved that one Li!;D I should tell my dad that one. When he gets the hiccups, it's a terrible case. But of course, you can't exactly stop it. I haven't hiccups so often, that last time I forgot the one about the hold your breath thing. Then I remembered. Usually I drink something, and if it doesn' stop, I hold my breath. It usually works for me.
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