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Recommend a good numbing cream

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Does anyone know a really good brand of numbing cream in the U.K.? I need to do painful injections so I'll need to numb the site beforehand. Or any to avoid

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Jonesjp

I used to use emla cream, you need to buy it from an online pharmacy but it’s easy enough to find 😀 x x x

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Fingerscrossed38 in reply to Jonesjp

Great thanks!

Emla or ametop. I’m a kids nurse and we use these all the time. They need to be on about 45 mins before to work x

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Perfect thanks :-)

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Dreamingofbaby

Bless u it not nice a. I still struggle with my injections. Not thought of cream tbh so is good idea. I use ice to numb at the mo.

Hope u doing ok xx

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Fingerscrossed38 in reply to Dreamingofbaby

Heya, I don't typically need anything but ice to do my IVF injections but I'm going to be doing LIT (Google it, is quite controversial) which is meant to be rather painful so thought the numbing cream would help...xx

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