Originally Posted by gunnabhuge
Root, how is the neosporin working? Are you healed? Have you found the answer to my nemesis? Let us know because I’m tired of waiting for this thing to fix itself.
Gunna and whoever may be interested, here is my experience with neosporin:
I am on what I think is my 3rd thrombosis in around 5 years of doing PE. It doesn’t seem like that long, but it says I joined in 2002 so…
I was clamping and squeezing when it happened. I feel pretty comfortable doing this, but got a little carried away. I remember reminding myself about the thread on if you don’t push it to the limit you may be spinning your wheels. I think I could have cut the “damage” in half if I would have quit when I felt it happen. I felt a slightly painful twinge right in the spot where it happened, but I kept on going to finish the set. I don’t recall if I did another set after that one or not, but I think that was my last set. I did 3 sets that day, but don’t know on which one I felt the twinge. I do know I finished that set which was 10 minutes long and it seems like I had at least half the set left. If I would have just stopped right when I felt the pain I really feel I would have cut the recovery time and size of the injury in half. I have nothing to base that on except for the ole gut feeling.
I got this one on 4-19. I recorded it on 4-20 so I it had to come from the previous day. I originally recorded it as 1/8”, but moved it up to 1/4” the next day or so. In reality it turned out to be about an inch long. It seemed to kind of spread. I think the blood builds up behind the blockage adding on to the whole mess.
At first it was one bubble (bb, bump, lump…) with a short thread behind it. Then the next day it seemed to be a bubble on each end. It hurt the first day, but not much after that. Until today I had only been putting the EVO solution on it. Today I remembered this thread and decided to slap some Neosporin (generic CVS brand) on it about three hours ago. I kid you not, I swear that about 2 hours after I put it on it felt about half as big. It seemed much softer, thinner and shorter.
Now let me say this, For the past 2 days I have felt like it was about to take a big step forward towards getting back to normal so the Neosporin may not have helped one bit. I would think the odds of it getting that much better in a 2 hour period would be pretty high though. I think someone needs to try this from the beginning and see what happens.
I am going to slab some more on as soon as I am done here and hopefully will wake up to a nice surprise in the morning.
I will report back.
Someone try the Neosporin from day one and give us a report.