What's the most uncomfortable place you've ever been sunburned in?

my balls…. end of discussion….

I got sun poisoning all over my back, the back of my legs and neck, my scalp and my right arm, all over. it was so bad, it had yellow blisters the entire length, and i was prescribed vicodin for the pain. then, all the goo started dripping into my leg, and my leg swelled up.

then i had to sit with my leg up every 15min for 3 days, so it could drain. which meant i had to go to the bathroom every other 15min.

but the balls are bad, too

Due to my friend’s inability to properly put sunscreen on my back, I got sunburned on the exact place where the band of a bra goes on my back (and nowhere else).

Even better, it was in a pattern of interlocking squares because of my friend and because of my bathing suit. I had to buy a special bra made for low-backed dresses because it hurt so bad.

eyelids…just horrible

@eponymoushipster ow… that sounds explicitly excruciating…

I completely agree with the top of the head. Especially the part in my hair. I always make sure to use sunscreen there now.

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 yeah, that’s the day i learned SPF 15 isn’t enough. i’ve gone to the beach one day since that happened, and that was 6 years ago this month.

@jonsblond: That’s why I always wear a ponytail at the beach!

I have had sun poisoning (see @eponymoushipster) on: My nose, lips, the tips of my ears, and on the part in my hair. The worst place though, was the tops of my feet (forgot to sunscreen them). I couldn’t wear shoes for days, and every step was excruciating.

edit: Ooh, I forgot the worst burn I ever got! I was a little girl at the beach, and got so badly burned that the t-shirt my mother threw over my (already burned) body to ‘protect’ me from any more sun stuck to my body. The blisters formed and popped so quickly that it crusted to me. I had to stay in my bikini and t-shirt, constantly wet for several days.

@La_chica_gomela If I do that my ears end up getting burnt instead. I can’t win!

@augustlan That’s terrible! I’m shivering just thinking about it.

@eponymoushipster @augustlan OWWWW! My brother gets burned like that, but thankfully I’m one of those people that tans instead of burning up completely. My burn on my back (itchy) and boobs and shoulders will turn to tan in a day or two, but I’ve never been burned as badly as all that! Though I did burn my scalp once before and it peeled and looked like I had monster dandruff for a couple of days… That was cute.

I have a tan from a BAD burn from over three years ago, though nowhere near that bad. You can still see the outline of the tank top I was wearing on the day I went skydiving and got crispy. Today is nothing compared to that one!

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 And your balls were doing what in the sun like that? :D

I once drove from Boston to Washington DC in the middle of summer in a car without AC. I spent the whole 13 hour trip (hit rush hour through NYC, don’t ask) with my left arm resting on the door window-sill, elbow out of the car, left hand in it.

Burned (and windburned) my armside and elbow so bad I could not sleep that whole night, and was all kinds of uncomfortable the rest of the trip.

Then I drove home, but if was raining, so that was awesome (Though I had to keep my left hand holding the front of the windshield, pushing the wiper blades from the last of their arc, as they had a tendency to go 30 degrees too far and flop off the left side of the car!)

I’ve only ever been sunburned on the back of my neck on my feet. Both suck because something has to constantly touch it: shirt and shoes. I remember after being burnt on my feet (this was in Tahoe and I had only brought sandals) it hurt to walk. Every step only aggravated the sunburn and kept it bad. Not good.

Sometimes it really sucks to be a pale-ass redhead. :(

I agree with @DominicX: sunburned top of feet is THE WORST.

I got burned feet at a football game one time. Perfect outline of my shoes for quite some time since my burns turn into tan. :P

I sleep on my stomach, so I can see how burned feet would hurt. It would be so hard to get comfy when going to bed.

@jonsblond I’ve tried on three different tops to try to sleep tonight, since I got my back burnt, and gave up and got on the computer. I also tried no top, but that didn’t work either. :P

My thighs, ugh they hurted so bad! And it was all because I didn’t wear sunscreen. I couldn’t change into other clothes without crying.

@avvooooooo I feel your pain. I had the worst sunburn of my life about a month ago. Hope you feel better soon. :)

@avvooooooo whats the fun of a summer cottage if you can’t skinny dip with your girlfriend?

@jonsblond Thanks! I think its about time to try again. Tummy time will be less bad, but then my boobs will hurt… Oh well!

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 LOL!

The back of a volkswagen… i fell asleep in the back-seat after a bonfire at the beach.. woke up the next day around 3pm… bad sunburn… VERY uncomfortable back-seat.

I got burned on my face and nose since I didn’t use sunscreen! It was sooo horrible! I hated looking in the mirror! I looked like the color of a cherry! :O It also hurt to touch my face! :(
never gonna happen again

My face. I went to the Tibetan Freedom Concert on Randall’s Island 12 years ago, and my face got horribly burnt. Redness, swelling, blisters, peeling. That had never happened before. I hadn’t worn sunscreen that day because I believed, falsely, that tan people don’t burn. Never again. I wear sunscreen now whenever I leave the house in summer.

The most uncomfortable place i got sunburned in was definitely the beach in Scheveningen (Netherlands).

I’ve never had a really awful horrible sunburn but one day a few months ago I was sitting outside for like…12 hours one day, but it wasn’t hot, just sunny, but the next day I realized that the scalp that was exposed (which was only 2 little lines since my hair was pulled back and my bangs were clipped) was just bright red and extremely painful. It got dry and “peeled” but it flaked and looked like I had bad dandruff. Embarassing and very painful to shower with.

I went to a double header on a very sunny day. I wore sunscreen, a shirt with a collar that reached my neckline and a widebrimmed hat. Evidently the weave on the shirt was loose enough to allow a burn. I started blistering that night and by morning it looked like I was wearing a 6” pearl necklace from shoulder to shoulder. As I was standing outside my work place a car came screeching to a halt and an old friend ran up and threw his arm around my shoulders. It sounded a little popping bubble wrap and his arm was covered with ooze as he pulled it away. I spent an hour every other day for 3 weeks getting my back debrided and dressed. Who knew you could get a 2nd degree sunburn with a shirt on?

Not sunburned, but by far the most uncomfortable place to get poison ivy:

I was 12, on a camping trip with the Boy Scouts. I must have come into contact with some poison ivy on my hands, and then when I had to go, I got it all over my pee-pee!