Ever get a really bad sunburn?

I remember one Fourth of July, when I was about 11 years old, when I was at my aunt's pool party in Wilmington, IL. My cousins and I swam all day in the sun, and I badly sunburned my back. :mad:

Not only that, but when we went to see the fireworks that night, I got about 90 mosquito bites! :mad:

This weekend, my mom and I went to an auction that was out in the basking sun. About the auction - well, that's a long story that I will maybe be highlighting in a future article. But when I got home, I discovered my shoulders were badly sunburned! Ouch. :(

Yes!

I'm a pale lady, too, so I get them easily and bad.

One summer in particular, I went to Wet n Wild with some girl friends, and not one of them would help me put sunblock on my back, like the little bitches they were. The sunburn was so bad that I had puss-y blisters all over my back. I still get angry thinking about it.

I remember going swimming with a friend at another friend's swimming pool when I was around nine or ten. I had put on suntan lotion, but of course, after about an hour or so in that pool, it washed off completely. My entire back was burned, and it reeeeally hurt to sleep for about a week. The only cool part was that I got to discover the perks of keeping an aloe plant in the house.

I have Irish skin hardcore, so i pretty much burn, even when the sun is behind a cloud. My freshman in high school, my friend and i went to Florida for spring break and i got the worst sunburn of my life. I had to go the the doctor right after i got back because there was a point where it wasn't even skin any more. It was a really bad 2nd Degree Burn. Sucked soooo much. I still have scars and that was years ago. I haven't laid out on the beach or at the pool since then.

That is horrible! I'm part Irish too. That does suck. :mad:



I'm using some Aloe Vera spray I had gotten from Walgreens awhile back. It does help cool the skin down.



I'm pretty pale too. That auction the other day really tanned my skin, though. ;)



I had blisters when my back got sunburned too. And yes, it did hurt to lie in bed for a week, and I did not sleep well. :(

Haha I had a sunburn once on my back, and I could peel the skin off it, THATS SO NASTY!

I have pale skin, I'm talking Casper here.

Once, I was at a Lakehouse I go to every year. I forgot to put on Sunscreen one day before I went into the water. I got burned so bad, even my scalp was burned.

Just recently, I went up to my Aunt's house in Wisconsin for a Fourth of July barbeque. She has a couple Golf Carts that she let's the kids drive around her yard (which is HUGE.) So, I was riding with my Brother's on one for like two hours straight. I ended up getting such a bad burn right across my face, it gave me a headache for the rest of the day.

I was in college and my friend was house-sitting for a guy. It was out on the water and I fell asleep on the dock without any clothes on (like I said, I was in college) and spent all day getting utterly seared on all the pale skin that is normally covered up. I was violently ill from the sun poisoning and my skin peeled off for weeks.

One of my best friends would invite me to the "Jersey Shore" every year. I don't really burn, but my friend and her many, MANY sisters(five) would burn to the point of bubbling and pussing. It was horrible. If I had that type of skin, I would have an umbrella with me at all times.

I got a really bad sunburn when I had gone to my grandma's pool. I got stung by a bunch of wasps too. I think I was like 5 when that happened.

Then when I was 12 I got really sunburned on my 6th grade trip to Raging Waters. My friends didn't even use sunscreen they thought for some reason baby lotion worked just as good even though it had no SPF on the label. I was all peeling and red when I got home my mom had to put some aloe from our plant on me.

I can get horrible sunburns if I'm not careful. I'm Irish, German, Scottish, Danish and English. All the ghostly pale skin bloods. Getting a burn from the sun being behind clouds is actually more common you than you think. The clouds, especially dark overcast clouds, act like a magnifying glass and multiplies the heat from the sun.

I got a pretty nasty one when I was 10, on my shoulders and arms, After a while it started to peel and it got to the point where I could barely move my arms. It went away after about 2 weeks. I'm Irish so yeah :P

I got terrible sunburn on my back on my holiday In Saloo, Spain that i had to continually jump in a cold shower as i felt i was goin 2 rip my skin apart.It was the next day we were planning to go to Port Aventura,So my mum put Natural yoghurt on my back and i kept it on for a full day and when i was going to bed i checked my back and my pain was gone and the Natural Yoghurt had soked into the skin and relieved the pain.

WORST Sunburn EVER!!!

As a kid, I always would get sunburned. I learned to coat myself with sunblock any time I go out in the sun for long periods of time. This one time I went swimming outside at like 10:30 in the morning for only about 30 min and it was the worst sunburn I ever got. I had pussing blisters and it lasted 2 weeks. I also got 2 sunburns this summer but the 2nd one wasnt so bad.

I've had a couple of painful sunburns to my back. But nothing a day or two with cooling cream couldn't handle. I'm quite lucky though, I used to tan more often than burn as a kid. A lot of my childhood photos feature me with a bronze complexion. (see the left side of my avatar!)

Tell you what though... I once got a real bad Sunstroke.

One summer I was on holiday in Germany staying at my Grandmothers. For a weekend, my Uncle took me out to as camping site where he hire a 40 foot static caravan.
I spent most of the day on the lake in the center of the campsite with a canoe. At some point while rowing my baseball cap flew off and I lost sight of it. I carried on rowing without it for a few more hours. The sun was blistering all day that day.. a beautiful late 90s summers day.
That night... I felt bad, real bad. I threw up and had temperature. It was so bad, my uncle took me to my Grans the next morning where I was staying during my holiday. Gran diagnosed "Sonnenstich" which is German for Sun stroke.

My short blond hair worked against me, allowing the sun to cook my noggin good and proper! That evening, I needed an ice pack on my head to let me fall asleep. I slept 15 hours solid before waking up feeling somewhat better.

worst one I got was when I was 13. Blistered everywhere. I am fair skinned.

my dad on the other hand, could tan until he was practically a black guy.

I went to a water park and put sunscreen everywhere except my back once. Right after I got home, my back was really itchy and I tore it to shreds scratching, which made the pain much worse when it kicked in.

I am currently recovering from a bad sunburn right now. I got it while at an airshow my husband took us to.

I got a really, really bad one when I went to Funtown Splashtown one year. It was in and out of the chlorine water, waiting in line in the hot hot sun to go up and down the waterslides. I did not wear sunscreen..then we went and rode the rides for awhile and then left. I was really really red when we left. We were sitting in a restaraunt on the way home and I felt really nausiated. The next day I was scheduled to go into work but when I got there a co-worker said"oh, you forgot to rub in your aloe vera gel" and touched me. Then she realized she wasn't touching a gloop of gel, she was touching a blister. They realized I had second degree burns and sent me home. By that afternoon my front and back and arms were COVERED in blisters the size of tangerines, some bigger. My dad took me to the emergency room but the most embarassing part was that I could NOT get anything over my body except a tank top and pants so I was trying to cover myself up with a towel while waiting in the parking lot for my dad but some people saw me and wer elike "What the hell happened to you?!?!?". Then the dr put some cream on my blisters with a freakin tongue depresser. LOL I cringed all through that one. Anyway it was horrible.

You would have THOUGHT I had learned my lesson...well when I was pregnant with my son I was in Hawaii at a beach with capris and a tanktop on. It was warm but there was a breeze so I figured I was ok so I didnt bother with sunscreen. Well when we got home my legs were so sunburnt that they got swollen and it hurt to walk on one of my legs for about a day. I am an IDIOT when it comes to sunscreen. i'm a great candidate for skin cancer.

I have had a lot of sunburns because I am very light skinned (blondes with blue eyes have NO pigmentation) I have never tanned, only painfully turned horrible shades of pink and sickley fire engine red. But there are 3 times that really stand out:
1. I fell asleep outside while laying on my back watching ducks....(don't ask..lol)I got so burnt I couldn't smile because my skin wouldn't stretch enough. To make it worse I went to the basement and played and rolled in the pink cotton candy rolls that were stored down there......turned out it wasn't cotton candy rolls -it was fiberglass insulation OUCH!(I was only 5)
2.I worked on the farm detasseling corn when I was 14 during the summer months. We were in the fields at 5 am and left at 4pm. There is no protection from the sun and you get bit by bugs and the corn leaves slice your arms like razor blades in the afternoon because they dry out. You also get poison ivy out there and corn rash. Well, on top of sunburn all these other factors make a 14 yr old pray for a swift death.
3. the last time(i hope) my cousin told me I should go with her to a tanning bed salon. I had never been to one and had no clue that you should start out with couple minutes to start. Little did I know they had just replaced the bulbs in my bed so it was extra hot in there. Needless to say I was in sever pain and had to be taken care of for awhile. I could even stand sheets on my body. solarcain provided a little relief but as soon as I stopped spraying the pain came back.....oh god the pain! Never again.