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Originally Posted by mrsD
The neck area has alot of oils in the skin. The Lidoderm patches are an aqueous (water based) adhesive. The oils in the skin repel the water based layer delivering the drug.
So cleaning the neck area with soap and rinsing well, may help the patches stick there. Maybe even a little alcohol before.
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Thanks, I'm sure that's a good part of the problem and no doubt my long hair is another. Also, I'm trying to get something around the occipital area as I have so much pain there. I "briefly" see Dr. Shwartzman while under ketamine tomorrow and may ask if he can prescribe a compound that may work better.
I've tried all sorts of crazy thing with the lidocaine patches tho and usually wind up with the all tangled up in my hair by morning!
