Chapped Lips

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12 Dec 2007, 10:30 AM
Gohron

Chapped Lips

This is quite an odd thread, yes, but I have a problem and TNL is good at solving my problems.

Recently my lips have been mega dry, I've never experienced this before in life. A couple of weeks ago a sore opened on one of the corners of my mouth, on the outside of the lips and eventually became a big gaping hole in my mouth. I started using chap-stick and blistex like a mother fucker and it reduced in size but is still there (and it's visible and doesn't do much for style points). Another sore opened on the other side of my mouth a day or two ago.

What the hell should I do about this? I've never been prone to dry lips and I'm wondering if anybody has some superior remedy to rectify this problem.
12 Dec 2007, 10:32 AM
YellerDog

Drink more water.
12 Dec 2007, 10:33 AM
Gohron

Quote:

Originally Posted by YellerDog

Drink more water.

I think that may be part of the problem. I've also had hydration problems lately where I'm actually finding it difficult to drink enough water I guess because I've been so busy and my mind is on other things.
12 Dec 2007, 10:38 AM
YellerDog

Low humidity's the other thing. Chapstick for a week plus drinking a bunch of water should fix ya up. Go rock some Vitamin Water if you need something more interesting to drink, that stuff's awesome. Videogame Master 50-Cent has his own flavor of that, so you know it's good.
12 Dec 2007, 10:40 AM
Grave

Formula 50 is the truth. It tastes like grape Children's Tylenol.
12 Dec 2007, 10:49 AM
Drewbacca

Sounds like you've got a mean case of the herp.
12 Dec 2007, 10:50 AM
Thief Silver

5 posts till herpes. Wondering how long till the next one comes.
12 Dec 2007, 10:51 AM
Gohron

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drewbacca

Sounds like you've got a mean case of the herp.

I knew I shouldn't have trusted raz0r...
12 Dec 2007, 10:59 AM
Doc Holliday

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gohron

I'm wondering if anybody has some superior remedy to rectify this problem.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/68/17...055b289948.jpg
12 Dec 2007, 11:35 AM
Ryan

Burt's Bees is the shit.
12 Dec 2007, 11:55 AM
Shooting Love

Last year I experienced a similar problem.
Likewise I'd never had problems with chapped lips.
My analysis of the problem came back around to my girlfriend at the time.
She was some sort of bullshit vegetarian, and ate really unhealthily.
She tasted weird and her pussy smelled unlike any I've ever wiffed.

My lips were peeling bad, and quickly developed cracks, the tip of my nose would become sore and peely too. It became clear it was from making out with her. When I finally got tired of her self righteous judgments and controlling nature and kicked her to the curb, my lips cleared up in about a week, and haven't been a problem since.
That bitch was excreting some toxic byproducts from her bullshit artificial burgers and faux-chicken. Probably Chinese melamine from the wheat gluten in her Morningstar Farms sausage links.
12 Dec 2007, 11:57 AM
YellerDog

Anything from a "Morningstar Farms" has to be the devil's work.
12 Dec 2007, 12:22 PM
Cowutopia

shooting love's story is amazing.

Some of these dumb bitches amaze me. "I"m vegetarian so I'm healthy and save the animals and shit!"
Fail.
12 Dec 2007, 04:36 PM
nameless_one

Doc's cure for everything seems to be Vaseline.
12 Dec 2007, 04:38 PM
YellerDog

Doc's cure has nothing do do with lips.
12 Dec 2007, 05:45 PM
bandit

Ive always had chapped lips :(. But not to a degree where its utterly disgusting. No sores or gaping holes. Just dry skin on the lips
12 Dec 2007, 05:58 PM
gir

vaseline, palmer's cocoa butter swivel stick (also has vitamin e), aquafina's lip oil (i like this stuff, and i've heard that it works great for really chapped lips; it's sold at walmart), rose salve... any of those are good options. these kinds of things work differently for different people, so you have to experiment to find what works best for you.

even if your lips aren't chapped, putting vaseline on them nightly is good upkeep.

using chapstick during the day is a good preventative measure, i think, since it's got sunscreen among other things. but it's probably not strong to fix severly chapped lips (except maybe the medicated kind).
12 Dec 2007, 06:15 PM
Razor Ramon

I'm clean, you asshole. :(
12 Dec 2007, 07:27 PM
A Robot Bit Me

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valgar

Burt's Bees is the shit.
12 Dec 2007, 07:30 PM
D_N_G

dont use chapstick or any other lubrication. your skin will become accustomed to the extra moisture and then you wont be able to go without it.

yellerdog nailed it, just drink lots of fluids and keeps your lips out of the cold. ie. use a scarf or hoodie

8 glasses of water a day my friend
12 Dec 2007, 07:32 PM
Wildkat

Chapstick is garbage.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...sh/CTubeAd.jpg

Carmex, It hurts a little bit at first, but it works.
12 Dec 2007, 08:23 PM
Survival Kid

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valgar

Burt's Bees is the shit.

QFMFT

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1...lipbalmhw9.jpg
12 Dec 2007, 08:30 PM
Rich

herpes
13 Dec 2007, 12:23 AM
Drewbacca

I have dry skin, naturally, but the dry winters in my climate really do good damage. Since I've graduated and been working I've noticed it a lot more. I usually carry a 550 mL bottle of water around with me. Since I've dropped a shit load of weight from working out I've been taking more showers -- after which I put on moisturizer and that also helps. It works well. And for my lips, well, drinking all that water does me well. Anything with cocoa butter in it seems to work really well. I've never ever put Vaseline on my lips before bed. My case is not that extreme but I've heard that works well too.

I also carry around Chapstick in the small little pocket most pants have (the fifth pocket). I got in to that habit in college for the ladies.
13 Dec 2007, 12:31 AM
Josh

MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T SUCK SO MANY DICKS. HUH?
13 Dec 2007, 12:50 AM
MarkRyan

I use Vaseline. When I was in London they had it in small tins made for lips--never seen it like that in the States, though. Carrying around a tub of Vaseline probably isn't very convenient.
13 Dec 2007, 12:56 AM
gir

rose salve is like awesomed-up vaseline, and it comes in those small tins made for lip stuff. it's not as cheap as vaseline, but it's not expensive, either. but yeah, even the small tubs of vaseline wouldn't be convenient to carry around.

this is the rose salve i like
13 Dec 2007, 12:58 AM
FirstBlood

I've never used any chapped lip product with any regularity in my entire life.

my lips are fine.
13 Dec 2007, 12:59 AM
MarkRyan

Quote:

Originally Posted by gir

but yeah, even the small tubs of vaseline wouldn't be convenient to carry around.

http://www.teentoday.co.uk/style/images/vaseline250.jpg

imo
13 Dec 2007, 01:06 PM
Thief Silver

Quote:

Originally Posted by Josh

MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T SUCK SO MANY DICKS. HUH?

24 posts.
13 Dec 2007, 03:40 PM
Grave

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkRyan

http://www.teentoday.co.uk/style/images/vaseline250.jpg

imo

They used to sell Vaseline Lip Therapy in little tubes, too. The cherry-flavored one was awesome.
13 Dec 2007, 06:23 PM
Brand

You might also want to try a little neosporin, if you lips split and are bleeding. With water and healed lips you should be good to go.
15 Dec 2007, 03:19 PM
kedawa

I use cortisone cream for treatment and lip balm for prevention.
15 Dec 2007, 05:34 PM
Revoltor

Black folk swear by Carmex.
16 Dec 2007, 02:17 PM
animegirl

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shooting Love

Last year I experienced a similar problem.
Likewise I'd never had problems with chapped lips.
My analysis of the problem came back around to my girlfriend at the time.
She was some sort of bullshit vegetarian, and ate really unhealthily.
She tasted weird and her pussy smelled unlike any I've ever wiffed.

My lips were peeling bad, and quickly developed cracks, the tip of my nose would become sore and peely too. It became clear it was from making out with her. When I finally got tired of her self righteous judgments and controlling nature and kicked her to the curb, my lips cleared up in about a week, and haven't been a problem since.
That bitch was excreting some toxic byproducts from her bullshit artificial burgers and faux-chicken. Probably Chinese melamine from the wheat gluten in her Morningstar Farms sausage links.

I love this post.
16 Dec 2007, 07:01 PM
EvilMog

Quote:

Originally Posted by animegirl

I love this post.

I lol'd too. Nasty.
16 Dec 2007, 11:12 PM
Mr_B

Quote:

Originally Posted by Revoltor

Black folk swear by Carmex.

Then it must be good.
17 Dec 2007, 09:21 AM
Lordmrw

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wildkat

Chapstick is garbage.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...sh/CTubeAd.jpg

Carmex, It hurts a little bit at first, but it works.

Sounds like an advertisement for anal sex.
17 Dec 2007, 09:22 AM
Cowutopia

people get addicted to carmex.
17 Dec 2007, 09:50 AM
Dyne

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drewbacca

Since I've dropped a shit load of weight from working out I've been taking more showers

you shower more because you're in better shape? what, you couldn't get through the shower door before?
20 Dec 2007, 12:29 AM
Josh

Shower after workout or smell bad.

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