#83478 11-04-2008 04:31 PM | Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | OP  "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 | Ladies:
Can anyone help??
I am spending a fortune trying to find a lipstick which stays on for my eternally chapping lips. This was somewhat of a problem before OC because of medications but since the surgery it seems that some of the glands that keep the lips moist are not working. Also, I need to wipe my mouth a lot when I eat and drink because I dribble from the gully created when my lip was cut for the surgery.
I am trying to avoid shiny lipsticks since they show up every flake when I chap - which can happen almost instantly when I start to dehydrate .
Thanks,
Malka
PS: I am looking for a lipstick without any blue tones in orange to tan range
SCC stage II Partial mandibulectomy w. neck dissection- July 2005. Renal cancer w. partial nephrectomy-Jan 2004. Breast cancer discovered in routine mammogram. Successful lumpectomy, sentinal nodes clear, RT only-2008 Reconstruction of mandible w fibula free flap-Jan 09. TORS removal of begnin pappiloma from esophagus-2010. Masectomy,rt breast 2013.
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Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 228 | I wish I could help but lipstick is the one thing that I avoid because I can never find the right color ( and because they all wear off on me)! I usually just use my burt's beezwax chapstick. I would just go to some place like Ulta and look around.
Stephanie, 23, SCC on the right side of my tongue, surgery on 5-19-08, over half my tongue removed, free flap constructed from my forearm, bilateral neck dissection, one positive node. Radiation (32) and chemo (carboplatin) started on 6-16-08. Recurrence 4/09 in lungs.
**** Stephanie passed away 12.15.09.... RIP our dear friend****
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Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 531 | Hi...I don't know if this will help but try a natural lip balm under or over regular lipstick...Like Stephanie said a natural product something like alovera or beewax lip balm something that will give moisture...if it was color you wanted long lasting there are a lot of brand names out there that really work. They have two steps lipstick and gloss...so the color stays on and just have to apply the moisture or gloss part...maybeline for one...
Dianne
Dianne..treatment at cc at Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario...insulin dependant, Surgery Sept 8/08 Tracheotomy,composite resection and bilateral neck dissection, left radial forearm free flap... T2N0 squamous cell carcinoma. No radiation A little over 2 yrs clear YAY
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Geez, I threw all of mine away. It just didn't look right when I shaved,
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: May 2007 Posts: 622 Likes: 1 | You shave your lips <<BIG GRIN>>
Sorry Jim... I couldn't resist
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SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.
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Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 531 | Well I heard a lot of you guys shave the inside of your mouth just harry beasts...
Ps I meant alveno lip balm
Dianne
Dianne..treatment at cc at Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario...insulin dependant, Surgery Sept 8/08 Tracheotomy,composite resection and bilateral neck dissection, left radial forearm free flap... T2N0 squamous cell carcinoma. No radiation A little over 2 yrs clear YAY
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Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | That's true -- I have to shave my tongue now...
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 228 | ah, those pesky hairy forearm free flaps. You guys are crazy!
Stephanie, 23, SCC on the right side of my tongue, surgery on 5-19-08, over half my tongue removed, free flap constructed from my forearm, bilateral neck dissection, one positive node. Radiation (32) and chemo (carboplatin) started on 6-16-08. Recurrence 4/09 in lungs.
**** Stephanie passed away 12.15.09.... RIP our dear friend****
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Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 794 | Y'all are simply the best..I needed a lift, and I knew exactly where to find one!
Malka, it is hard to find a lip gloss that doesn't have sunscreen in it, but if you're using something with sunscreen in it, it might be causing that continuing chapped feeling. I use one by Savannah Bees that is silky, non-perfumed, non-medicated, and non-sunscreened. I notice that some are now available from the more common makers, but you really have to read the labels carefully. If you could find a tinted lip gloss, it might feel good and look pretty too.
The long-asting Revlon lipsticks are great....they sorta stain your lips, so that you keep some color. They come in a narrow tube. You might try one of those, with a gloss over it. They also are now making a creamy Color-Stay lipstick...worth a try.
I keep some of my nice Mary Kay "super emollient night cream" (like pink vaseline) by my bedside and reapply whenever I wake in the night....along with my spray bottle of Biotene mouth wash. Breathing funny makes our lips dry also, so keep them greased up at night and maybe the days will be more comfortable. I hope so!
Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Just think of the odor if the flaps were underarm. LOL WHEW
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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