I don't know, for some reason I'm always kind of surprised when medicine actually works.  I'm used to trying stuff out for various minor ailments sometimes and it doesn't seem to actually do anything.  I think there's a lot of snake oil out there.  But to be fair ibuprofen is usually pretty effective when I have a headache.  And recently I tried out some foot repair ointment because I'm tired of my feet being majorly dry and cracked all the time and it looks like it's actually kind of improving.  I think I was particularly skeptical of the feet thing because I have this weird thing where the skin on my hands periodically peels and I've tried every lotion and ointment under the sun for it and nothing works.  I actually thought whatever the heck is going on with my hands might also be happening with my feet, but I think I just had run of the mill nasty cracked feet.  All right I'll stop talking about that.  I'm not the biggest fan of feet to begin with, especially when they're all gross.