Steph, you can develop a sensitivity, even an allergy to the polymixin in Neosporin. It's actually three drugs in one cream, I'm told, and I'm allergic to two of them, polymixin giving me blistering rash in minutes. Try Bacitracin. It's the one AB ointment I can use, and it usually helps.

There's a reason I don't want my food touching on my plate, or to use packaged combined "spice mixes" or blended scents in a candle or incense. Or, you know, scotch. There may be one ingredient my body/nose/skin/stomach rejects, sometimes violently. I'll combine my own ingredients, using things I know are safe for me.

On me, polymixin will make an open sore ten times worse in minutes. YPMV.

Teppy, that is just lousy. I would call the doctor - 2 months seems like too long to me.

I have some painful sores and irritation and keeping the area as dry as possible does seem to help healing. That means several changes of underwear a day, using a hair dryer on cool when you're home and using fragrance-free corn-starch based powder. It seems to me that creams just seem to keep things wetter. It is absolutely No Fun.

And there are lots of other options in between. Some men want to be feminine, and have breast implants but keep their penis.

We know an individual who was born male, lives as a man, identifies as man 100% of the time, yet has a female personna (with clothes, makeup, etc.) who is the person who goes to parties, because he desperately wants to be humiliated by a femdom, and the humiliation is meant to consist of being forced to dress as a woman.

We've known this person for a couple of years, and I always thought he was trans. Until this past weekend, when he was bewailing his lack of a partner and that NO woman would EVER accept a man dressed as a woman. I got a little pissed, because, hello, I'm living proof that ain't true, and then I tried to reassure him that there are women who have trans partners and it's not a problem.

Which is when he corrected me and told me about the humiliation thing. Now. Given that everyone has different things that get them off, I know some people not only juggle geese, but are into humiliation. I don't get it (understatement), but as long as I'm not a part of it, rock on.

That said, as a feminist, I am deeply offended by the idea that being dressed as a woman is a humiliation. A lot of people don't agree, citing "masculinity," blah blah blah, but you know? Don't. Care. You want to do it? Fine. Just don't expect me to be on board with how my life, and the appearance thereof, is a humiliation. No way.

Beverly, you know, if I use neopsporin too long, I get itchy (on any body part). I bet I do have a sensitivity to one of the components.

Dry seems to be the consensus. I don't even know if I own a blow dryer. But I bet there are at least 3 in the attic.

That said, as a feminist, I am deeply offended by the idea that being dressed as a woman is a humiliation.

That's kind of my issue with men who dress as Gorean slave women. It's all sorts of gender appropriation and bullshit.

Then again, it's also Gor, so bullshit radar is going off all over the place.

My eyes have already done rolled with the Gor shit, and there ain't no more rolling left in me when it comes to them. Ick.

Gorean slave women? ::runs to wikipedia:: Dang, the things I don't know. My life, she is vanilla.

Generally, that's because steroids can interfere with wound healing. I'm tempted to start it, though, and just not put it directly on the wound, but around it.

I get massively irritated areas that respond well if I use sparing amounts of the steroid ointment to uninflame the skin but then let the wound-y parts heal. Totally this is a YSkinMV thing but possibly worth consulting your medical provider about... Because this might not be the place to wildly experiment with medicine.

Lots of steroid ointment and the thinning of the skin and the interference can set in. Done carefully, much relief. For me.

That's kind of my issue with men who dress as Gorean slave women. It's all sorts of gender appropriation and bullshit.

The hey to what now? That's a thing? I feel like Christopher Judge hearing of furries for the first time.