Originally Posted by dancinglady (Post 1169949)

What is menthol? Is there a name brand?

Originally Posted by mrsD (Post 1168524)

I bought some of this recently.... the lidocaine amount is just shy of a Lidoderm patch. There have been commercials for this on TV too lately. Lidocaine is the only active ingredient. It does not have the other ingredients that regular Aspercreme has.

I am using it and finding a preliminary benefit to my night time pain. I have long suspected my feet hurt alot as referred pain from my knees. (since I retired and don't stand for hours on end anymore).

I apply a small glob (it is a thick lotion and in a bottle, not tube)
on each knee at bedtime. I concentrate on the sides of the knee where the nerves are. And I have seen a marked reduction in pain and burning at night. My left ankle pain is reduced about 80% so far.

So I do think might be helpful for others here. I did find less relief when applied to the tops of the feet themselves. So reaching the nerves higher up seems to work better for me. Try applying it on the lateral sides of the knee, if you have lower leg pain, or ankle pain.

This is the website;
http://www.aspercreme.com/pain-relie...lidocaine.html

The regular Aspercreme works for me a little, but if I try to use it every day it starts to sting the area I apply to.

I believe hubby picked it up for me at Target:
http://www.target.com/p/aspercreme-l...z/-/A-16836627

If you have an allergic problem with --caine anesthetics, then you should avoid this product.

Originally Posted by pinkynose (Post 1170739)

I just tried the aspercreme with lidocaine cream last night for the burning and it worked great! The relief lasted all night for everything except a slight muscle pulling that began in one leg. It had been more then 6 hours so I applied a little more to the one spot and it was gone until morning. I am going to try to only use this product when absolutely necessary so hopefully it will continue to work.

Originally Posted by mrsD (Post 1168788)

I would apply the lidocaine cream along your inner wrists for the palm pain. Is that the only place you have an issue?

We had a fellow here who was straining his hands doing push ups. His palmar pain went away when he stopped that activity.

Do you use the magnesium lotion? (Morton Epsom Lotion)...
This too applied to the wrists and inner arms may help.
Available at WalMart, Walgreen's and online at Amazon. Just a nickles diameter dollop on each wrist is all you need.

Both of these topicals are inexpensive and work for me to quell much of my discomfort.

Originally Posted by mrsD (Post 1171153)

I would like to repeat my warning:

Do not apply to large areas in one dose. This product is quite potent IMO and the other night my husband put some on my
problematic back shoulder. It had been a few days since the last application. Well, I couldn't see what he was doing, and he put too much on.

Somehow it affected my left ear nerve, and affected it somehow and I had a huge vertigo attack the next morning on the left side. I still cannot move my head back and to the left without some dizziness... but the surging awful vertigo was terrible. That left ear was tested years ago (in the '70's), and the results of the electronystagmagram showed severe nerve damage (possibly from measles or abuse as a child)... and I have had 4 vertigo attacks as an adult from that ear since. I do think it was from too much Lidocaine.

So do be careful with this new cream and use cautiously.