Curist 5% Lidocaine Cream Maximum Strength Topical Pain Relief OTC - 12 oz (Pack of 2) XL Tube 5 Percent Lidocaine Numbing Cream to Numb Effectively (2 Pack - 6 oz Tube)

This Lidocaine gel had a good relief from the local deep down pain from a shingles flare either the initial attack or subsequent ones in following weeks that come whenever they want to. Though I bought it to try for helping with the pain deep down with these attacks but I also realized it was great too for relief from the shingles intense itching and sensitivities to slightest touch or breath of wind on the skin that causes the awful pain.. This medication I used with a long curve-handled lotion applicator and foam pad that doesn’t soak up the gel before you apply the one I use mostly is a dense hard 1” approx depth of oval foam pad on one end of the curved bath type wand for using for exfoliating applying soapy lather or for the shingles’ use I works great if you have shingles on your back and have trouble reaching to apply this lotion/gel. It works great. Good lock to you! I had to try to make up a way of applying the anti itch and pain reliever all on my own as I’m a widow and this attack hit me around my mid trunk so was inconvenient in applying creams or lotions. But this gel works so great in 6 wks time I have bought another 2 tubes about 3 times! Thank you for such a great product! My illness isn’t quite over as I’ve been told it can come back any time during the next year after the original attack. Get this and you’ll be set for maximum relief!I wanted to say I’m 6-7 weeks into this shingles attack with 5 flares besides the initial attack- always along the same nerve “Dermatrome” which is the spinal nerve that is being attacked by the virus and it followed from my left upper thoracic around to the left and around under my arm. It never left the area but each time I had another mini attack it filled more of the rash. So between the old attacks and new I was sure needing some pain relief but almost more than that the itching that drives you crazy. None of the creams saying it was for itching from bug bites, eczema ever helped and this was sure the best of everything I tried and believe me I really think I tried everything for things like that.. I highly recommend this product for shingles attacks which it doesn’t say this on the tubes but it works!

This product is good. I would recommend. It works.

Works extremely well

This product is quite helpful but YES the tube is impossible to open. I too had to cut the other end of the tube with scissors which is not great. Arthritis may have been a factor but I should be able to open the tube. I really urge Curist to consider this in their packaging because I may have to look elsewhere.

Neuropathy / helps a little

Excellent product - does exactly what it should - just a small amount, applied to where there is pain and within a short time, the pain is gone -- it makes it so that I can function and walk without pain - and that is great.

On autoship. Works wonders on my foot! Numbs to reduce the pain.

The lid is a push and twist type.However, it is nearly impossible to open. I ended up using scissors to cut off a bottom corer of the tube and squeezed the cream out into another container. This meant that I lost quite a bit of the cream.Insult to injury, as I was cleaning the scissors, I ended up cutting my thumb!Altho it claims to be the same 5% lidocaine as another brand I'd been using, it doesn't seem to last as long or be as effective as the other brand. Not sure why that would be.Unless you are really really strong, I do not recommend buying these impossible to open tubes.