Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Filtch the salt and put it in warm salty water?

Or how about babies sudocreme?

I have salt ... the trouble is there's only so long you can stand in an en-suite on one leg with your foot in the sink. It's not very exciting.... but I'm off to do that now.... brb

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's that old chestnut "if it were my house ....." If it were my house I could have all these things to hand and behave a bit bizarrely .... as it's not my house I have to think about what I've access to .... and am prepared to look weird.

I can put it in the sink (bless the en-suite)..... and I've got a Tesco bag... but no ice cubes.

If it were my house/freezer etc, then I could have wet a small towel and put that in the freezer ... and made up some ice cubes... then gone to the freezer every couple of hours. When it's not your place, you don't want to be too bizarre.

Sounds miserable. I've had ringworm in the past, although not as extensively as you describe, and the itching is maddening. Here are some thoughts from my previous experience of fungal problems with feet:

Probably best to try to stay in and not walk about on it too much - if it's on the sole, contact with footwear will keep reinfecting it, and also making your foot sweat. Fungal infections just love sweat.

Keeping it cold (well, as cold as you can manage without your own fridge/freezer) will help with the itching and also with the actual recovery. Keep it clean, and whenever you're not actually washing it or using water to cool it, keep it dry. Moisturising the skin may make it more comfortable, but try not to let the skin be actually wet - the stuff breeds more quickly in wet conditions, especially if it's got water and no air - like in damp socks and/or shoes. Remove any weepiness if it starts. Keep putting the daktacort on. It will work eventually.

BTW, you and I should be grateful we're living in an age when things like daktacort and fluconazole are available. My dad had fungal problems with his feet when he was a teenager, and the treatment was to sit for ages with his feet in a big bowl of bright purple solution of potassium permanganate. He remembers having to take it in the air raid shelter.:eek:

PasturesNew

Right - that was enough of that..... the sink's got one of those plunger plug things, where you press a knob behind the taps and the 'plug' raises to let the water out .... except in this instance it wouldn't stay down... so first I had to find something to wedge the lever up with so the plug stayed down.... found a comb worked a treat.

It was excruciating putting my foot into the water... but now feel nice and glowy

lostinrates

Cold ensuit sink then...ideal! Or a little bowl fi
Led from cold en suite sink.

I think viva will get this...

I have used el night repair serum....well, on and off through my entire adult life. It does amazing things. Amazing things. Its coped with all my med changes and health stuff and pulls my wretched skin back from disasterafter each assualt on it from within.


And now it seems i no longer tolerate it at all. .

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

.... try to stay in and not walk about on it too much

As I've just moved in, I don't want to appear to be bed-snoozing, non-operational, potential dole scum.... so I have been getting up and out soonest. It also helps as I can have a fag away from the place ....

LydiaJ wrote: »

- if it's on the sole, contact with footwear will keep reinfecting it, and also making your foot sweat. Fungal infections just love sweat.

I've only worn rubber shoes and have been cleaning them too with wet wipes. Also, lots of air circulation in those.

LydiaJ wrote: »

Keeping it cold (well, as cold as you can manage without your own fridge/freezer) will help with the itching and also with the actual recovery. Keep it clean, and whenever you're not actually washing it or using water to cool it, keep it dry. Moisturising the skin may make it more comfortable, but try not to let the skin be actually wet - the stuff breeds more quickly in wet conditions, especially if it's got water and no air.

I've had the luxury of 'time' so have been washing it, then letting it dry in the air - then putting the previous cream on - and letting that air dry for a good hour.

I was moisturising it with savlon, which also helped cool it as it felt hot/burning .... quack today said that could have hindered the previous cream's ability to work; it could have been neutralising it - and now I am only to use this new cream and nothing else. I had been trying to moisturise with Savlon as it was dry/cracking and tight/uncomfortable.

LydiaJ wrote: »

My dad had fungal problems with his feet when he was a teenager, and the treatment was to sit for ages with his feet in a big bowl of bright purple solution of potassium permanganate. He remembers having to take it in the air raid shelter.:eek:

My dad used to tell me about when he had to do that too - when he was in national service and if one person had it the whole hut had to have their knackers and feet painted with the purple stuff.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Cold ensuit sink then...ideal! Or a little bowl fi
Led from cold en suite sink.

This, again, is the whole "not my place" thing - I've no bowl. In my own place I'd have the right sort of bowl to hand ... here ... nothing. I am going to see my stuff tomorrow and if there's a bowl in there (I think there is), then I'll be grabbing it.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

I have used el night repair serum....well, on and off through my entire adult life. It does amazing things. Amazing things. Its coped with all my med changes and health stuff and pulls my wretched skin back from disasterafter each assualt on it from within.


And now it seems i no longer tolerate it at all. .

Hugs. Hope you find something that works.

lostinrates

That bathroom place looks worth a browse, but ......i cannot use the site how i want to. I have found this a common issue with bathroom sites. I don't want to look at themes, i want to look at sinks. Or loos. And decide which of them i like best.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Hugs. Hope you find something that works.

You are sweet.

Tbh, i recognise its not the end of the world, bu still disappointing.


Tonight i used.....savlon healing gel:D

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

That bathroom place looks worth a browse, but ......i cannot use the site how i want to. I have found this a common issue with bathroom sites. I don't want to look at themes, i want to look at sinks. Or loos. And decide which of them i like best.

That's because it's an aspirational lifestyle bunch of b0ll0cks and the site was designed by arty farty creative types

I know what you mean .... I find that in Ikea too - room layouts, but it's hard to find all the things of the same type stacked up together.

That bathroom place has quite a few branches, I noticed there are some quite close to you possibly.... well, closer/potentially bigger.