I hope some of you can help with this, especially those who swim lots of yardage. I am now swimming 4 miles non-stop daily with 1 day off a week and so far, so good; the body is happy as a bird singing. But I am having a terrible time with swim suit chafing. I wear a 2-piece (don't laugh) because of the freedom, but the swim suit top is giving me blisters in places I won't describe. Also, my neck, both sides, are getting blisters and then scabbing. I've been using vaseline on my neck and that helps, but it is so bad I am going to have to take a day or two off for them to heal because salt water and blisters is OUCH big time.
Does anyone know about lanolin and where I can get it? And would it help? Any other suggestions as to products to reduce this? I guess I could always just take my top off, shove it in my bottoms, and continue on my way, but I don't want to frighten the beautiful fish. And then the blistering neck problem needs to be solved.
ANY recommendations would be appreciated because training is going so well and I don't want downtime for this stupid problem!!! Any doctors here with suggestions? Any 1500 freestylers here? Any mega-yardage people here with similar problems? If this continues and I don't find a fix, I will be a candidate for plastic surgery right after my 18 mile swim to get rid of the scars!!
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Donna
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suspect you are in fact my long lost sister.
I am told my skin chafes more easily than most.
I swim in a speedo workout bikini most of the time. It still rubs in a few spots particularly the neck, I rotate through several of them and a nike one that has a different pattern. On long swims I take the top off, the fish don't care, most female ow swimmers seem to do the same, I joke I may drown wrestling my top back on I tried putting on a rashguard once when I had kayak support.
Anyway for chafing I have a variety of products. Bodyglide & the dimethicone products will stay on for swims in the 5 miles range after that they wear off. There is a product called aquaphore which is Vaseline and lanolin (found in the drugstore) it stays on longer, it gets grease on your suit which is hard to remove it does not seem to eat my suits, bag balm and the like are similar but contain some kind of menthol or camphor which can irritate if your skin is already raw. My dermatologist recommends the aquaphore for healing the chafing too. For treating really bad chafed areas he suggested superglue/new skin. English channel grease is a mixture of Vaseline and a non-liquid lanolin. Others use a liquid lanolin (one is hydrous one anhydrous but I don't remember which). The liquid lanolin feels awful and stays on for days, I use it on major chafe points for swims past the 10 mile mark. I am warned that lanolin can clog you pores and reduce your ability to sweat so don't use it all over. Also any grease applied under the band of your suit will cause it to slide around & make things worse and if you drip too much lanolin on your suit it will become a sea anchor.
i hear Boots compounds channel grease, maybe swim stud's mother can get some?
suspect you are in fact my long lost sister.
I am told my skin chafes more easily than most.
I swim in a speedo workout bikini most of the time. It still rubs in a few spots particularly the neck, I rotate through several of them and a nike one that has a different pattern. On long swims I take the top off, the fish don't care, most female ow swimmers seem to do the same, I joke I may drown wrestling my top back on I tried putting on a rashguard once when I had kayak support.
Anyway for chafing I have a variety of products. Bodyglide & the dimethicone products will stay on for swims in the 5 miles range after that they wear off. There is a product called aquaphore which is Vaseline and lanolin (found in the drugstore) it stays on longer, it gets grease on your suit which is hard to remove it does not seem to eat my suits, bag balm and the like are similar but contain some kind of menthol or camphor which can irritate if your skin is already raw. My dermatologist recommends the aquaphore for healing the chafing too. For treating really bad chafed areas he suggested superglue/new skin. English channel grease is a mixture of Vaseline and a non-liquid lanolin. Others use a liquid lanolin (one is hydrous one anhydrous but I don't remember which). The liquid lanolin feels awful and stays on for days, I use it on major chafe points for swims past the 10 mile mark. I am warned that lanolin can clog you pores and reduce your ability to sweat so don't use it all over. Also any grease applied under the band of your suit will cause it to slide around & make things worse and if you drip too much lanolin on your suit it will become a sea anchor.
i hear Boots compounds channel grease, maybe swim stud's mother can get some?
