Advil Targeted Relief Pain Relieving Cream, Up to 8 Hours of Powerful Relief of Minor Arthritis Pain, Joint Pain, Lower Back Pain and Muscle Pain - 4 oz

I highly recommend this for sciatic nerve pain due to piriformis syndrome. It helps at 100% where other helpful products only reach 50% at best. It's such a relief that I don't mind the smell at all. There are a lot of products available to help alleviate sciatic pain and sciatic pain from piriformis syndrome in particular. There are exercises that help and lifestyle changes that can address the underlying problem as well. I've tried just about everything available that you can purchase. I do the exercises. I'm making the lifestyle changes. Most of the products and exercises that are supposed to help do help to one extent or another , but even combining a variety of them has never been sufficient to handle a really intense stretch of pain coming from the piriformis syndrome. It hurts not only as a muscle site but all down my left leg. In the calf when it gets down to that area it's mostly on the outside and a bit towards the front and back. That area of pain feels a bit like a non-stop charlie horse at times, and at other times it feels like it's on fire almost. This morning the pain was so bad even having a copper leg brace on and the kind of brace that they sell that puts pressure on the points in the calf and having taken the ibuprofen and tylenol. I couldn't get the pain reduced to a point where I could have comfort at all and I was really miserable. I used one of my massage guns and that would just address the pain in one area and then the other areas would still hurt. I opened the Advil pain cream as soon as it was delivered. The cream has a light texture and it absorbs very quickly . My skin is on the dry side which might affect this but after I apply the cream my skin doesn't feel greasy or sticky. The smell is very strong and I think it's stronger than other kinds of rubs perhaps or maybe it just seems that way at the moment. It's not bad, it just has that muscle rub smell. Within minutes of applying the cream I noticed and Improvement. At first I thought maybe it was in my head but sure enough within 15 minutes the pain was reduced to where I could get up and walk to my kitchen and back within a tolerable level of pain. Within a half hour, now I'm just feeling a little pain at the very top of my left thigh in the back and it's not severe at all. I think I'm only noticing it because I'm actively considering how my leg feels for the purpose of this review. I also still feel some tightness, similar to when I do a deep stretch, in the area of my lower leg that not that long ago felt almost like it was having an endless charlie horse. It doesn't hurt. It's just some tightness in that area. And that's it! I didn't even use a super heavy application of the cream, and within half an hour anything going on with my leg wouldn't even be worth mentioning. Of course I still have to make lifestyle Changes in order for the pain to be fully resolved the majority of the days of the year but for flare-ups and plan to continue using this Advil pain cream. It's worth the trade off in having that muscle rub smell about my person. If it's having the pain completely shut me down so there's nothing I can really do VS. smelling like muscle rub, I'll take smelling like muscle rub. Another great thing I should probably add is that I have fairly sensitive skin and the Advil pain cream did not cause any irritation or rash. I highly recommend this pain cream from Advil

Advil Target pain relief is on contact for 8 hrs or more. Good for daily use. The consistency is not thick and non greasy. No harsh scent, pricing is fair for the size. I use daily before I start working. A good ease of pain for my thumb pain throughout the day.

Very effective product. Easy to use and it absorbed fast. It was worth every penny and the smell is not bad. It's also a nice size. I thought it would be small. Very easy to take on the go.

Advil pain relief cream , works decent . It takes about 2-3 applications to relieve pain . It is non-greasy , easy to use / apply …

I have lower back spinal stenosis & have gotten pain patches to help with pain with the same ingredients from my acupuncturist, so thought I'd try this cream. Some days it really hurts to move but I know I need to keep moving. Well, this cream is a God send. I rub a quarter size in & in moments I can move w/o pain!!! I have gotten epidural corticosteroid shots every 4-5 months & after it wears off, this cream will be my lifesaver! Note: I bought a wand to rub it on my lower back so I didn't have residue on my hands. It is strong stuff, with a strong menthol smell but as a person with sensitive skin, I didn't get any irritation! And it's not sticky. Thank you Tylenol!

The good thing about it is that it does actually work. However, the smell is overwhelming. Don't put it on if you have to go out immediately. The pain does come back but for temporary relief it is very good.

The cream was fine very strong camphor smell. Smells like the old Vick's vapo rub. BUT: Delivery was 10 days late! When I ordered it said it was in stock, listed for overnight delivery. I immediatly got a notice it was out of stock! I tried to cancel 10 seconds after the notice and the retuen notice said too late to cancel!! I tried multiple times to cancel. I recived the product after I need it. Very deceptive web site!

This cream works for pain. I have a pain pump for my lower back, which does not help anything higher than the lower back. I suffer from extreme pain from my waist up, so I ask my husband to rub it from my waist up. The pain subsides 99.9%. For some reason, my back starts to itch desperately. I have to take an Allegra and put some soothing cream on it to relieve the itching. In all honesty, I can't blame this cream for the itching because I suffer from severe allergies to a large number of antibiotics and other prescription medications. Yesterday, I had a horrible fall and, among other things, I hit my right knee. An hour after the fall my knee started throbbing in pain. My husband asked me what he could do to help. I asked him to massage this cream on my knee - very gently because of the pain. He massaged the cream very softly, but thoroughly. I was expecting to start itching soon, just like it does on my back. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the pain went away totally, and NO itching. Bottom line, this cream really, truly works to alleviate pain in different parts of the body. I highly recommend it!