Sunbed Shock

[SansaStark90]

I’ve been really stupid and gone on the sunbed for twenty minutes and the burns I’ve got - I’ve never seen skin as red. I’ve got like indents to my skin as though I’ve woken to stretch marks on my chest. Will these disappear? I’m in agony. I’ve never burnt and so didn’t know it could cause this kind of pain. I’m shaking shivering. I did this yesterday. Can someone reassure my health anxiety that these indents will all calm down?

Thinking of you this morning op hope you got some help and are doing ok

Please do go and get medical attention OP, especially if you still feel shaky or shivery or nauseous. I know you have health anxiety and I don’t want to make it worse, and I know you feel silly. But full body burns can be dangerous because it impairs the skin’s ability to regulate body temperature and can cause electrolyte imbalances especially if you get blisters today.

After way too much sun when younger (outdoor job for 10 years, plus holidays) I’ve spent the last 10 years with a large Seborrheic keratosis on my temple, a basal cell cancer cut out of my cheek, 2 benign tumors sliced off my nose (currently have another growing), sun spots on my hands. I see the dermatologist every 9 months (£200 a visit). So about 25 years before the lasting sun damage came to fruition.

OP please ignore the people bickering on here. You know you made a mistake and you don’t need to go over that again.

Sunburn is still a burn and covering most of your body is a problem. I hope you are getting medical treatment now.

I hope you start to get some relief from the pain soon.

Your mum knows better than 111?! Why take her word over theirs?! I had first degree burns from the sun once (hadn’t reapplied my factor 50 quickly enough) and ended up in hospital. I don’t understand why anyone uses sunbeds at all especially people who (a) have very pale skin and (b) have a health anxiety.

How are you this morning?

I honestly thought sun beds had been banned after their peak in the 90s/00s and have been surprised to see more tanning salons opening up around us (ones with sun beds not fake tan).
I hope you’re at hospital now and getting the treatment you need.

Ignore your mum. 111 know far better. Please don't feel ashamed or embarrassed, you deserve and need help.

How are you this morning? You've been in my thoughts x

You’ve never noticed sun bed shops on the high street?!

I hope you've gone to a&e @SansaStark90 . 111 aren't overreacting - sunburn like you're experiencing can be very serious, you've burns to most of your body and that is a medical emergency.
The shaking and other symptoms you're describing are your body in shock and telling you that it's serious, please listen

Are you all still giving the OP grief about using a sunbed? Give it a rest. How many of you drink? Smoke? Eat vast amounts of calories? Have tummy fat? Snack on processed food? Use sweeteners?

Give over with the holier than thou faux horror directed at a burnt woman in agony who needs support not a lecture.

I hope you’re ok this morning OP. Shit happens. Don’t let this sanctimonious bunch make you feel any worse. They bloody love a pearl clutching pile on.

We don’t have any here - lots of beauty places and places that do fake tans, but I’ve honestly not seen a sun bed in about a decade.

Go to A&E they can make sure you are treated properly and don't go onto shock or something.

I hope youre ok this morning OP.
I think your mums not realised it’s not “just a bit of sunburn”. It’s actually burns. Over most of your body. It will need medical intervention. Please seek help at A&E as soon as possible.

This is why our council stopped their sunbeds in the council gyms. Although they were very popular, raised a lot of revenue and were queued out. But sooo dangerous. Like fags, you don’t see the damage until it’s too late.

I hope you’re ok. Don’t go near the sun again this year without factor 50. Why risk it.

Oh my god, do not ever go on a sunbed when you have pale skin. Just don’t. Do you actively want melanoma or something?
Go to your GP and keep hydrated.

It sounds horrendous, you poor thing. Hope you are ok @SansaStark90 and that you went to A+E or at the very least are going this morning.

I’ve not seen any for a long time actually. I remember them being popular around the mid 00s but they seem to have gone away where I live at least. I knew they weren’t illegal though as we’d have heard about it.

People still use sunbeds?! I don't live in the UK anymore, but I haven't seen one in many years.

I have the same skin as yourself, I can get burnt if I am out in it for 20 mins. It was overcast on last day of our holiday one year and stupidly, stupidly, I did not put cream. I woke following morning swollen, red raw and in agony, anything that touched it the pain was intense. Had to put loose clothing on for plane ride and hold seat belts away from my body.

I went back to work the following day and the nurse I work with sent me straight to A&E, second degree burns on my stomach and my legs. They gave me Aveeno moisturizing cream. It took the swelling down, stopped the itch and relieved some of the pain (also was told paracetamol and ibrufen). It took a few weeks to go down and it did blister.

Hope you got sorted at A&E, if you didn't go get some Aveeno and I promise it will really hep.

@faerietales @Finallydoingit24unless you live very remotely I find that hard to believe. My very local area has at least 2. The Tanning Shop and Indigo Sun alone each have around 100 branches literally all over the U.K. so unless you mean literally within the very immediate area you live on a very small radius, you are bound to have these near you.

I think everyone who has posted on here deeply cares about the OP. I know it was the first thing I thought of when I woke up.
However, some of us are trying to make people realise, for the future, just how dangerous sunbeds are. It’s not that we are being sanctimonious at all, just trying to make people aware of what they are doing to themselves.
Hopefully the OP has been to A and E and received the treatment she so desperately needs.

Oh you poor thing OP. I hope you've got some medical help by now. Please stop berating yourself. You deserve sympathy and concern. Your mum sounds a bit shit tbh. You'll get over this. Then think about taking action against the dangerous outfit that allowed this to happen. Feel better. 💐

I can’t believe people still use these! They should be illegal

I will look out for them from now on. OP I hope you are okay. I had bad burn from the actual sun once (had forgotten to apply cream to my back) and it was so so painful. I couldn’t sleep. However the cream the doctor prescribed was really effective and worked straight away so hopefully you will have a similar outcome. Never go on sunbeds again though.

Why would anyone lie about seeing a sunbed shop?

I know they still exist as I’ve seen them multiple times in the past but not recently and certainly not in our local area. I’m sure they exist in larger towns or cities but they’re not something I look out for or pay any attention to, really.