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That's interesting Darrel.
I have been a hot sauce and pepper fan for as long as I can remember. And I mean habenero sauces and the like, not your garden variety Red Hot, or Tabasco. I didn't get hit until I was 40. But I wonder if the capsule is giving you a higher dose of capsaicin than I am getting in sauces, salsas, and the like? I may have to do a little digging..

Also for you pepper fans, how do you keep your dogs out of your peppers!! My last 2 Miniture Schnauzers eat my habs right off the plants. They eat them like candy.

I bought my .15% walgreen's capsaicin today and put it on my oh so sore wrists. At first, nothing, now a couple hours later....zowwy!! Feelin' the burn. On the bright side, I'm not thinking about the sore joints, ha ha, just the fire on the surface of my skin!!

-Donette

Yes, I initially wondered if it's like hitting your thumb w/a hammer...suddenly you don't notice how bad your back hurts. But there is science behind this treatment whereas some of the other OTC creams aren't really therapeutic. So you got the strong stuff, good luck. Even when I had the intense burning, still thought it was more pleasant than pain My dad uses it on his feet for neuropathy and tells me he likes the burning so maybe it's genetic (like the B27 gene I inhereted).

Wow your schnauzers eat HABENEROS!? Do they even flinch?

according to many herbalist, the cayenne is THE most versatile & most important thing they'd always pick if they had to choose only one.

~ Pour cayenne into a wound and it stops bleeding
~ stops infections
~ increases circulation (hence the use for heart attacks/strokes)
~ pain killer
~ used as an eye wash, it will clean off cataracts and improve eyesight (used daily)
~ not sure all the rest right now....
~ helps digestion
~ increases metabolism by raising body temp

Cinnamon is very close in properties too...

but... I am not one that likes spicy hot and I am very sensitive too. Surprisingly the VA gave me a script for some caspacian cream... didn't feel a thing though. must have been low % ... it fugures... watered down ... what I expect from the govt!

If you are burned by it... put vegetable oil to neutralize the burn.

My hands and wrists felt better this morning, and I was grateful. They have been horrible the past week. I did figure out that if I put my hands/wrists under the blankies or under a long sleeved sweatshirt, they burned like fire, but out in the air, they were fine, just cold!

Also, I realize I would rather have the burning in the day than while I was trying to find the elusive sleep I need, so today I applied it in the late morning. I suppose it doesn't matter, as long as I do it every day.

Thanks for the tip, I think it is doing me some good.

-Donette

Hey Donette, so glad to hear it's working for someone else! So I'm not nuts that when I cover up my legs with the duvet, it burns like someone's laying a hot pan across my lap? lol That's such a strange sensation - the burning when you can see that you're truly not on fire. I had to stop using the cream just so I could get some zzzs at night - it was keeping me up too much, even if I put it on first thing in the morning. I think maybe it was helping a tiny bit, but I'll try it again in a couple days.

Maybe you should run outside and roll in the snow then hop back into bed
There was a time when my feet were so bad I would stand outside in the snow barefooted in the middle of the night...hence I was named "snowshoe"

Megan, if you have the same applicator I do, I noticed that the first time I rubbed it back and forth and back and forth many times over the area and had the fire. Yesterday I just lightly went over it once, and it was not so bad. It is odd how it will stop burning for a while and then out of the blue the fire starts up again.

Interesting stuff!

haha I do that all the time actually. So much more efficient than dragging out the icepack and trying to mold it to wrap around the bottoms of my feet. It's funny to hear that other people do these things too. No one's given me any knicknames yet though.