Aspercreme Max Strength Lidocaine Pain Relief Patch (5 Count) for Back Pain, Odor Free Pain Patches

Better than some Lidocaine prescription patches ! Why? They go on easily and stay put, they don't slide around your body on their own, get stuck to your clothes and roll up or down, they are much thinner than Lidoderm so there is less sweating and discomfort and are unnoticeable beneath clothing when placed in obvious areas such as the shoulder or chest area, they are much easier to cut when they are still in their package and they don't gum up your scissors, the pain relief lasts practically until the next day, the backing pulls off easily and does not make your fingers gooey and gummy, I'm reiterating they do not stick to your clothes or slide around because that has been one of the biggest problems I have found with each of the generic brands of liododerm and the new liododerm patches they began making approximately 4 or 5 years ago when the original Lidoderm patch company stopped making them and sent their production overseas. Finally, although they are not covered by prescription that I know of, they are covered by your FHA accounts if you have one and are much cheaper than any lightoderm brand. They also come in several sizes. The only downfall I can find is that they don't come in bulk such as a box of 30 which would be a welcome advantage especially if it could be offered at a discounted rate. Perhaps one day we'll see them in Costco or bj's!

I use these much more than I probably should, but if my back starts hurting and I put a patch right above the pain or on it, I notice it starts feeling better and relaxes it so it doesn't get worse. My husband says I need to buy stock in it. LOL!

I wish I could put on dispatch everywhere on my body, it seems to work so well, and I start getting immediate relief once I apply it. The only issue is when I have it in my lower back, it’s seeming sometimes to ball up or not stick as well if you’re moving around quite a bit. Otherwise though I just secure it with a piece of medical tape, and relief is 100%

I had been using another brand from a pharmacy chain. I tried the Aspercreme patch, again, and was very impressed with a few new revisions. These revisions have improved my impression of this product.The individual patches are a bit stretchy. The backing has a perforated line down the middle with instructions to stretch the product by holding each end so the perforation splits the backing into two pieces. Take the corner of backing and remove one of the sides. I place the patch at this point. One adhered, I remove the 2nd half of the backing, which gives me the best results. If you aren’t very careful, you can easily end up with wrinkles in the patch where the patch sticks to itself and reduces the surface area of the patch against your skin,...which means less active ingredients being absorbed.The improvements that I noticed were the thinner dimension of the patch. I noticed the logo and name “embossed” onto the non-active side of the patch.Also, I’m not sure, but if the patch had the traditional aspercreme fragrance before, it does NOT have it now. This current patch is absolutely fragrance free.Along that same theme, if the patch had the traditional warming experience before, this newer patch does NOT, which is something the majority of patches don’t have either. There are plenty of warming crepes out there. As a user of lidocaine patches, I want reduction in pain, no odor, no cooling or heating sensation, no oily residue, or any other sign that a patch is being used.I’m delighted with the revisions. I will be purchasing again. They are great!

My wife said that once you use these, you will not want to be without them.

I was upset when I received this item because propylene glycol was not listed as one of the ingredients in any of the information about this product. I happen to have an allergy to propylene glycol as do a certain percentage of the population. This should definitely be listed in the information section of the listing. I bought this product specifically because one of the people who answered questions had listed all of the ingredients and did not mention propylene glycol so I feel that I was misled.I am going to try to use the product to see if there’s enough of the propylene glycol to cause the redness and swelling that I usually get from propylene glycol. I found out that they could be using an alternate chemical called Diprolene glycol which does not cause allergy to people. However all of the other companies that manufacture lidocaine patches (that I have found) contain propylene glycol also, so I was hoping that this product line would work for me since someone had answered the question about ingredients already. But alas they were incorrect.So heads up folks! I have included a photo of inactive ingredients to show that it lists propylene glycol on the package.The other thing that I want to say about this product is that I feel the need to tape it down in order to keep it in place. If clothing rubs over at the edges it tends to curl up and stick to your clothes. After a while it is totally dislodged. But if you go to the trouble of putting tape over the edges it works pretty well.So far my pain relief is so so and I have not been aware of a flareup from the Allergy to Propylene glycol. Time will tell and I will update when I know for sure.Update: after trying the patches several times I have not noticed a flareup from the propylene glycol. Perhaps there’s a very small amount of it. But I have seen other reviews where people had redness and swelling and I bet the cause was in a sensitivity to that ingredient. So heads up!

Not bad it's on the lighter end if you want menthol & heat not for you. All products are great

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