While we all know Icewave pain patches can relieve pain and decrease inflammation, I’ve recently learned that the carnosine and sleep patches can have calming and sedative-like effects on the body.
Furthermore, it was suggested to me to try the sleep or carnosine patch on chronically knotted muscles I have in my back. This spot in my back produces pain off and on, but it’s really always tight. I wondered what the carnosine or sleep patch might do for me.
I decided to choose the sleep patch first for this purpose. I figured I could wear the sleep patch all night, and hopefully, my muscles would be relaxing while I was sleeping.
It should be noted that my muscles in that spot in my back are usually tight. Sleeping alone does not relieve them, and I often still wake with tight muscles. I do stretch the muscles as I believe it to be beneficial, yet the tightness is never relieved. I've tried massages; they do absolutely nothing for that area of my back.
So, here I was believing I was destined to live this way. I was excited to learn that maybe the sleep patch could benefit me in other ways than just good sleep, so I tried it.
I do have to report that after two nights, my back muscles in two key places have relaxed. They are not knotted up as badly as they were. I still stretch, and if that area experiences pain, I will wear the Icewave patches on it. It’s exciting, though, to not be as tight as I once was.
P.S. I leave the sleep patches on during the day sometimes, which if it doesn’t make you too sleepy, is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. This keeps my muscles relaxed throughout the day, and I can function better.
*Author's Note: A week or so after I had been using the sleep patches regulary on my muscles, I decided to throw carnosine in the mix. I believe carnosine may actually work even better on my knotted back muscles than the sleep patch. I've now switched to the carnosine patches and am trying just that.
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