I decided to lay out today and ended up burning my butt. Well, not my whole but, but right under the cheeks and part of them.
Let me tell you folks how much it sucks! I was very careful to turn and take breaks but I am bright red anyway.
If anyone has any helpful advice next to staying out of the sun let me know. Right now I am using Silvadine and then apple cider vinager and water to take the sting out.
Anybody else burn sensitive areas of their bodies? My husband finds this hilarious since he is greek and tans the first nice day, and he is a roofer so he is tan most of the time. I on the other hand got my fair freakled german complexion from my fathers heritage. Oh, no I couldn’t get my mothers wonderful olive complexion from the italian/jew on her side.
I was working out in the garden once, on my hands and knees. My shirt kept riding up and my shorts kept riding down to refrigerator repairman territory. I was alone out there and got sick of adjusting my clothes, so I left them the way they were. When I came in I had sunburn in an enormous kiss pattern across my lower back and halfway down my butt. Then the burn peeled, leaving a brown kiss behind that lasted for a year.
Kricket,
I know exactly what you are going through.
Manny, Manny years ago a male friend of mine took myself and my best friend Verma to the beach.It just so happened that he was trying to sell his car, so we thought it would be ‘good advertising’ for us to lay on top of it.(I told you this was long ago, we were both still cute then )We lay there for several hours.
Burned those hiney cheeks to a crisp.Yeeowch!
We spent some time sitting on the side of the frozen food bins at the local market.But, alas, you can’t stay there very long (stupid managers).
In the end,what worked best was plain old aloe with lidocaine.Fruit of the Earth makes a good one, so does Panama Jack.Any of the blue gel sunburn treatments will do, and I’ve found them to actually work better than silvadine.
Plus, they wont turn your sheets and panties purple.
I have some of the blue aloe stuff, but trying to get my husband to rub my butt is another story.
Two funny things: today is his birthday and he isn’t getting any, and you guys should see me sitting at my computer desk. I haven’t moved much!
Dropzone, although I don’t have that neat kiss mark, I do have the burn in part of that refridgerator repair man area. When I lay out I leave little covered.
Somehow my front is a-okay.
I do not know your husband, but if he does not want to rub your butt with slippery stuff is he somehow, um, how can I put this, lacking in manly vigor? I can understand my not wanting to massage my wife’s feet every blasted night because feet are about all that I DON’T have a fetish about, and something in BenGay gives me palpitations whenever I massage her back, but your BUTT? I’m disappointed with the boy.
Some friends and I went to Telluride, CO; two of us to ski and the others on business.
John and I were on the slopes the first thing and skied all through the daylight. It was a bright, sunny day. The snow reflected the sunlight well, and we basked in the sun on our trips up the chairlifts (which generally run toward the south in Northern Hemisphere ski areas).
We met up with our friends and started driving home to Grand Jct., CO. I noticed my face felt a little warm, but didn’t think much of it. When we got to our friend’s house, his wife came out to greet us. Just as she asked us how our skiing went, she gasped loudly. We were fried! On a burn scale, we were just short of 2nd degree (slight unbroken blisters).
I had to sleep with a towel under my head because my burns oozed slightly. I aloed up my face for a week, and it healed well. To top it off, my acne cleared up for about a month. Of course, I’ll probably get some skin cancer any year now.
I surf, so Im at the beach a lot. It always amazes me why people sleep in the sun. Sometimes they rub some lotion or something on themselves & they don’t have a clue what they are doing. Me? I wear long sleeve shirts & pants, clothes you can’t see through, cuz that means the sun can’t come thru.
Those Ski burns are a bitch, especially when there’s glare from the snow, and you get burns in areas you never thought about (your chin?!?).
Kricket, if you still hurt try sour cream! No jokes, really takes the heat out. People have used this for really bad burns with good results. The stuff should come right from the fridge for best effect.
First off, dropzone, Kricket and her husband are both bi. I was under the impression he liked boys butts better than girls and liked other things on girls butts. BTW, I liked the mental image of you gardening. My ex had a similar experience with the “kiss butt” sunburn. His didn’t last as long probably because it wasn’t that bad. His back and ass were so hairy that I was surprised he ever got sunburned, but that is another story.
Anyway, my first job when I was 15 was pouring hot tar on a roof. I can’t tell everyone here how much that sucked. I was the tar boy in San Antonio during the hottest day of the year that year (no lie) in middle of July. I was getting paid $7/hour under the table which was extremely good for a 15 year old there especially since minimum wage at the time was around the $4 mark. Anyway, stupid me knowing it was going to be hot wore shorts on top of the roof. I took the precaution of covering myself completely with suntan lotion with a high SPF (don’t remember what it was now… but it was high) and then went to work. There was absolutely no shade. On the ground it was 115 degrees outside and on the roof it was closer to 130-140. Not only that, I was pouring hot tar which was significantly hotter than that and was getting tar burns from splatterings. Now I worked there all day long trying to get in whatever shade I possibly could but it didn’t save me. I was covered with second degree burns all over my face, arms, and legs. The absolute worst was the sunburn on the back of my knees. I had never burned there nor have I since. It was awful. I was a total blister. The next day I just stayed in bed. My father knew the guy I was working for (his name was Toy) and picked up my pay. He wondered why I didn’t go back but I couldn’t move at all. I would have really enjoyed going back because it paid well at the time. Anyway, that job lasted all of one day, sigh. The monetary compensation hardly seemed worth it because I was so sick the next day (swollen and actually physically nautious).
Anyway, I found a vinegar bath did wonders for me when I had that sunburn. It reeks but it feels good when it is going on.
Hey gang. I’m actually sporting a fairly nice burn on the top of my head right now (shaved head you sillies). It just started peeling so I look like sort of a cross between a really bad Head&Shoulders commercial and a leper. Not too Rico-Suave! But the worst burn I’ve seen was, thankfully, not one I was subjected to. I went to Puerto Vallarta one summer for two weeks and met a few other Americans, most of whom rocked. But there was one particularly nasty young woman who just grated on my nerves. Well, we all got together and took a ferry ride to an offshore island to do some skin diving and this young woman decided to put some tan accelerator on and lay out on the sundeck of the boat. When she woke up 90 minutes later she was one big 'ole blister. I’m talking major melanoma working here. We didn’t see her for the rest of the trip. While I’m sure this will cause my Karma to dip a little, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.
Good luck with the recovery Kricket!
Take a HOT shower. It seems to take the sting out of the burn. Then slather yourself in aloe vera gel and lay in front of a fan or under the air conditioner vent.
I have burned my cheeks several times, as well as my headlights once or twice. The fun really starts when they itch and peel.
One of the worst sunburns I’ve ever gotten was when I went down to South Padre Island off the Texas coast when I was about 16. Our Explorer Post camped on the beach the entire weekend, and I ran around in my bikini <back when I had a decent figure> the whole time we were there.
I did put sunscreen on, but, back then there was no such thing as SPF’s. I ended up doing a very good lobster imitation! Being fair-skinned and blonde didn’t help any, in the hot Texas sun. I spent a very miserable night feeling every grain of sand on my sleeping bag, and rode back to San Antonio on wet sheets with the A/C turned all the way up.
The doctors wanted to admit me, because almost all of the exposed skin had blisters of varying sizes and I was quite nauseous and weak from the sunburn also. I lost a week from school, since I couldn’t stand to wear anything.
And let’s not even talk about when I started peeling…EEEWWWWWWW!!!
Poor Kricket! I sympathize, having done the same thing. Fair skin, an slightly overcast day at a beach, followed by pain, nausea and pre-cancerous spots I still have.
I don’t know if you prefer natural remedies over others. Aloe based products really do help the healing but I haven’t found that they helped the heat and pain.
My standby is Solarcaine; it cools off the heat and numbs the hurt enough that at least you can sleep and function. I don’t think it helps healing, but at least it helps keep you somewhat comfortable while time lets your body heal on its own.
I, too, burn quite visciously having inherited all the anglo genes that run in my family: pale skin that burns and freckles. I mostly use the green aloe vera gel and sometimes regular lotion.
Story [two actually]:
I was in Colorado with my parents for a week, for which they had brought their golf clubs. One day we went to Copper Mountain so they could play and i could sit in the golf cart and read. Well… there were few trees over the cart path, the cart didn’t have a roof, and my hair was in a ponytail. Of course, after four hours of reading the book in my lap, my neck was a lovely bandana-red and my face was a paler shade of true red, like a oft-bleached bandana. Who would have thought that light would reflect off the book onto my face? Anyway, I didn’t leave the condo we rented for a day and a half [when my face had gone back to normal]. Peeling skin I can deal with, but the burn went past the hair line on my neck; i had too wash my hair two or three times a day to get the stuff out [gross].
Fifth grade: my family was gathered in Austin for my grandparent’s 50th wedding aniversary. My cousins and i spent the whole weekend in the swimming pool, of course. On day i got out to discover blistering all over my face and neck. I hadn’t been out that long that day, one hour at the most. Some skin cleanser i used had reacted nastily in the sun. My gramma actually had an aloe plant, so we cut the tentacles off and used that on my skin. I healed quicker than when i used the bottled aloe.
I couldn’t get him to rub the apple cider vinager on my butt I don’t really think I am going to get him to rub sour cream. I am tempted to try it though. Why couldn’t it be something yummy like chocolate syrup. Wouldn’t have any problems getting him to help me out with that!
VB thanks for the offer I will keep that in mind. Maybe you could be there to help me rub on the sunscreen next time I go out.
I have been moving very slowly today, but getting around none the less. Believe it or not the vinager is turning the burn into a nice tan. Never happened before. I usually just burn and then get paler afterwards.
A friend of mine and I used to joke about how we weren’t laying out to get a tan but to bleach ourselves. A guy friend of ours used to say that you aren’t somebody unless you have boobs and a tan. Well, one out of two aren’t bad!
Three bunny momma I forgot to ask did you guys at least get the car sold after all that? I sure hope so.
And Golfwidow I am terrified to get in the tub! But I must so I am getting ready to now. I took a bath right after tanning but that was before the burn set in. Wish me luck, and if anyone hears any banshe type wails comming from the direction of Iowa, ignore it.
You are going to think I am nuts, but as a redhead I have LOTS of experience over the years in dealing with sunburn. It seems like no matter how careful I am, I always get a bad one every few years. You know what works best for me? Bag Balm! Sounds crazy, and hurts like fire for a minute or so, but then the pain (from both the burn AND the balm) subsides, and I find I don’t blister and peel as badly as I do without it.
Scotti, I use that alot on cuts and such. I just didn’t thing that you were supposed to put something that think on a burn. Keeps the burn warm or something. I will take your word for it though as I trust in you being a redhead and surely know the woes of fair skin.
Someone else in another thread in GQ mentioned witch hazel which I use alot of also but as an astringent. That sounds painfull also, but maybe I will use it in my next bath and then the bag balm.
Sqrlcub, my husband is a roofer as I think I said, and I have seen many men get fried something fierce on a roof. Hubby takes off his shirt the first nice day and comes home golden brow, and they come over for the aloe.
Our third is the same way. Both of them drive me crazy although it is kinda nice to see my pale skin against there bronze bodies but that is another thread now isn’t it?
Almost forgot, son is doing fine and gets his cast off in about a week now. Damn it is a week from today, he gets it off on the 14th and I will post in the update thread on what the doctor tells me. Not supposed to get another cast if the x-rays look good. Everybody keep your fingers crossed for him and for my sanity!
AWB…I did the exact same thing my first time in Breckenridge. I happened to be out there for a week and after that first nasty burn we still skiied the rest of the week. We loaded up on the SPF 45 3 times a day, but still added to the burn a bit. I had broken blisters and dipped well into 2nd Degree territory. Took about 2 weeks to heal, but I was 18 and invincible :).
)We lay there for several hours.