Kahuna
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
Posts: 10
Location: Southern California
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 Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject: No More Irritation... |
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I have had great success with my Idromed 5 PS as you can read in my earlier Success post from February 2009. Some events occurred in my life that unfortunately prevented me from doing any treatments for a few months. During that time my sweating returned to normal, pre-iontophoresis, levels. When I had the opportunity to restart my treatments under my arms I quickly began getting irritation on my skin. I figured it would go away with time and a little Aloe applied topically. I was mistaken. As the days went by and treatments continued the irritation became worse.
What I was experiencing were clusters of miniature red bumps around the outer edges of where the sponges touch the skin. During treatment I would feel a sharp stinging/burning as well as intense itching. This would not stop until I ended the treatment. The pain would subside, but the itching continued. While taking a shower the hot water on my skin under my arms would always make the itching nearly unbearable.
I tried several different remedies recommended by Markus, but the only thing that would work for me was a temporary pause in treatment for a couple of weeks and applying a Urea cream to the irritation area regularly (I used "My Daughter's Hand & Body TheraCreame", from Aim2Health.com). The itching and irritation went away after about three weeks.
When I resumed treatments the irritation slowly began again. I contacted Markus once more and he sent me some new silicone electrodes to replace my current aluminum electrodes, surmising that my problem was simply an allergic reaction to the material. Well, it worked! After over a month of treatments with the new electrodes, slowly increasing the duration and intensity, I am happy to report very little irritation, if any at all. The itching is still there, but much less intense as before, and I rarely get any of those tiny bumps anymore. When I do I just take a day off from treatment and apply the Urea cream twice a day. That seems to solve it enough to continue.
Thank You, Markus! |
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