Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with chafing

On the whole, Preparation-H feels good.

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:12:23 -0800

I get a sore butt whenever I go on vacation or a long day trip. Help me prevent this pain in the ass! About 3-4x over the past year, I've ended up in excruciating pain on vacations/trips due to none other than a sore butt hole.

It typically occurs when I drive somewhere for 1+ hours and then walk a tad more than normal. Example: last weekend we went out of town (drove for about 2 hours) and I walked about 2x more than I normally do during any given day. By the end of the day, I was in tears wiping with those medicated butt wipes (which didn't help a whole lot).

Is this just chafing or is there something else going on down there?

Do I need to apply some sort of cream any time I anticipate an active day!?!

I'm going camping over the fourth and I'd really like to find a solution before then because EVERY camping trip over the past year has been absolute hell (butt-wise).

Help me with my chafing thighs!

nursegracer — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:34:13 -0800

Hiking and chafing: make the pain stop! My husband and I have recently started backpacking, which I enjoy greatly aside from one thing: having gone five miles in 80 degree heat, the inner aspects of my thighs were chafed so badly I couldn't walk without pain the next day.

I have had this problem since middle school, always being overweight, but it seems to have only gotten worse. Losing weight is the obvious answer, but that's one of the reasons I am hiking in the first place.

The chafing is primarily located in the upper thigh regions close to where my legs attach to my torso. This time we treated it by covering it with Tegaderm, but that is not a good solution because it sticks to itself.

I wear Spanx Power Panties on a daily basis but they aren't really built for any heavy duty wear (they are more like hose). I also used a pair of spandex shorts but found them unable to stay "up-ins" far enough to prevent the chafing. Same with spandex leggings.

Is there any pre-made solution, or am I forced to sew something? Any suggestions are welcome.

I know talcum powder and other products are made to stop the chafing, but many need to be reapplied too frequently or are fragrant-a big no-no in bear country. I would prefer the solution to be backpack friendly.

Stop the chafing!

Amizu — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:10:26 -0800

What are your solutions for everyday chafing around the thighs? My boyfriend recently moved to Miami, where he wears a suit every day for work, and for the first time has developed major chafing problems around the thighs. He wears cotton boxers, and uses baby powder, but still the chafing continues. Do you have any tips for every day to prevent chafing?

I read this post, http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/12883, but it seems to apply more to long distance running.

Thigh-rubbing friction

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:36:35 -0800

For all the big-thighed women out there... In hot weather, do you have problems with wearing skirts sans pantyhose and walking any distance? If so, how do you deal with the inner-thigh chafing? I am not overweight by any means and am in fact quite fit, but I do have somewhat fleshy upper thighs that touch for about two inches below the groin area when I'm standing up. In the summer if I wear skirts without pantyhose, I can't walk more than six blocks without starting to get painfully chapped in that two inch area. It's really embarrassing. I do notice other women who have a similar physique to me "waddling" a little, ie walking with their legs a little wide. The way I avoid that is by cutting off the lower legs of black pantyhose and wearing this pseudo-thigh girdle under my skirt, and therefore eliminating the upper-inner thigh friction. I feel like such a weirdo for having to resort to such DIY solutions, but I am surprised that there is no undergarment product catering to this problem. No one else I know seems to have this problem, and even my heaviest girlfriends wear skirts all year round. (I can't just wear full pantyhose in the summer, because I wear sandals and pantyhose-toe is tacky and weird when you're just going to the beach.) I have been doing all sorts of exercises focusing on my inner thighs to try and slim them for the sole purpose of being able to wear skirts, but nothing is helping. Am I completely alone in this, or is there a method of dealing that I just haven't heard of? Please help me find a way to be a breezy skirt-wearer without the thigh-rubbing issue!

Chafing

tomble — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 03:04:52 -0800

Joggers, Hikers and Marathon walkers, your attention please! I love to walk, but experience troubles with chafing. For particularly long walks (5 hours and beyond), I used to use a product called Chafe Eez, manufactured by a now apparently defunct company called Second Wind. [more inside] This product was a thick cream in a squeeze bottle. For chafing (toes, thighs, anything that rubs) it provided not only some relief, but also was an excellent long lasting skin lubricant. A healthy blob of it would last all day, and it had a pleasant smell to it.

Now, sadly, it seems to be unavailable. I've tried a product called `Bodyglide', which seems quite good and gets glowing reviews, but is not really right for me.

Does anyone either know if Chafe Eez is available somewhere, or have a home made variant that works for them?

(My first post to MeFi! How exciting!)

Help! I'm running my nipples ragged!

dogmatic — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:21:18 -0800

I started running about a month ago, and am loving it, but -- chafed, red, sore nipples are no fun for me. Does anyone have any advice on how to avoid rubbing my nipples raw while running?