Arnica Ointment

Recently I've started using Arnica Ointment on my inflamed skin, I was using zinc and castor oil cream but my skin has had a hissy fit and doesn't like it much anymore so I started looking around the bathroom wondering what to try next when I remembered I had a tube of Arnica Ointment in the cupboard and it's supposed to be good for inflammation. I find it helps more than other stuff I've tried and while it hasn't got rid of the inflammation it doesn't feel as sore as it did so anyone with inflamed skin might want to try Arnica. You can buy it in ointment, cream, gel or oil so there's alot of options to choose from. If anyone does try it let me know how you get on!

nice one! i think i'll pop down to the shops and get some tomorrow! so bloody sore grrrrrrr x

I'd probably avoid the gel form Naomi, I've got a pot of gel in the bathroom too and find when applied to the skin it dries it out so I'd choose ointment, cream or oil for the vulva. The ointment is really long lasting, provides a bit of lubrication to stop one side of skin rubbing on the other and protects the skin from urine so ointments are a good idea if your skin is ok with them. I use the Weleda Arnica Ointment and it's about £4 for a 25g tube which lasts ages as you only need a little bit. I actually had a few days last week where I wasn't as bad as usual and that's the first time I've had any decrease in pain throughout the whole sorry tale! I think it was partly the arnica and partly because I managed to do a few days of not tensing my pelvic floor up, sadly I've started gripping with the pelvic floor again after some stressful news but the arnica is still helping some with the soreness. Let me know how you get on, for me it helped immediately.

Did you get any arnica products Naomi? I've realised tonight that if I do a bit of internal massage in the bath which usually results in alot of soreness afterwards, if I apply arnica ointment as soon as I get out of the bath it stops the extra soreness so I can actually get away with doing a bit of manual release of my super tight muscles now too. Let's hear it for arnica!!

hiya! im going to get some today. was having a 'feel sorry for ones self' and stayed in and watched telly all day being miserable. doh.

so im going to attempt a walk into town later on.