I tried the plastic spray bottle, the rollerball "stick", & this aerosol/continuous spray. The roller applicator & this aerosol spray came in the "Extra / Maximum strength". The Extra / Max pain formulas may bring long-term relief from added ingredients.1 - Best (my fave) is the rollerball This treatment felt like the most potent application. The rollerball let's you press hard on the tight spots, the pressure can help loosen painful areas. Make sure you can reach the spot by hand, if you will be applying the roller style option on yourself! The sprays all disperse & reach quite well!2 - Aerosol - Extra Strength Continuous Pain Relief Spray 4 Ounce Mess Free - has the added ingredients, and is superbly easy to apply. Might get more waste or atomized overspray, but this lays down a nice coating of quick relief!3 - Spray bottle - another 5 STAR product. Quick relief - large size option. Menthol mostly is the active ingredient in the regular strength products.Ratings: all 3 options = 5 star reviews! More accurately; 5.0 stars for the roller application - 4.75 stars for this featured Aerosol / Continuous spray can - 4.5 ish for the plastic pump spray bottle.I suggest you get a rollerball "stick" & the aerosol spray can, or spray bottle. They reach & apply differently. I apply these with an exhaust fan running or outside. The dry coating is MILD smelling - not as bad as others, but it is a menthol-esque smell for sensitive noses or anyone with disdain for smells from pain topicals. Read more

I don't like the continuous spray for Stopain. I always bought the pump spray. This continuous spray does not offer enough of the product to land on the site of discomfort like the pump spray did. However, in their infinite wisdom, the company has evidently discontinued the pump spray....I go through the continuous spray much faster than the pump with less relief. I used the pump spray for somewhere around 30 years but will now have to try to find a different product that will offer the relief that I used to get from the pump. Read more

Wipe a dab of petroleum jelly on the plunger and it will oil it up for the duration of the product. After the next two or three plunges it has lubbed itself up and then it isn't difficult to use anymore. (Aren't I clever!?!?)NOW! TO the product itself. I discovered this AMAZING pain killer when it very first came out of the market, oh, 15 20 years ago. I should have been their public spokesman for all the people I have turned on to Stop Pain. I call myself the Queen of Pain because I have two whammies against me: advanced arthritis combined with a rare bone and joint disease where my body grows SPURS in between all major joints. Sometimes when I oversleep and the morphine and Norcos wear off, when I come awake with no pain killers on board and I move just the slightest I cannot help but cry out in pain! EXCRUTIATING!!!! Nothing on the face of this planet is going to take away 100% of my horrible daily pain problems and let me assure you I have tried every over the counter med to help boost the heavy opiod effectivebess and trust me....THIS IS THE BEST BY FAR! I only gave it three stars for longevity because it does wear off in about an hour, so consequently I use A LOT of this product. Two tips: go to Walgreens and they occasionally will have these on a two for one sale...in that case I clean them out. If you have arthritis, you know what I found is a real real help with the inflamation and pain? ASPIRINS. Take three 325 m at a time and it either boosts your pain meds effectiveness or just helps on it's own. I swear by ASPIRINS and buy them buy the bottle of 300 at a time. Good luck and hang in there! Read more

Not to happy with this Stopain, I have ordered many times and the results were great. I am not understanding why things were changed from the old Stopain. Instant relief isn't happening after spraying pain is still there. It's hard to spray from new container. I had recommended to family members now I am sorry i did. Read more

Not sure if this is the same as I had before. Feel like they have changed their product and it is not that effective compared to the one I used to have. I just feel like spraying some water on my legs and there is no pain relief or stopping at all.Hope they don’t just try to make more profit by changing their product quality!So disappointed! Read more

I have been using Stopain for years, both roll-on and pump spray bottles. I have bragged about the benefits of Stopain to many people over the years. Be aware, If you are a senior citizen or handicapped individual with weakened strength in your hands due to arthritis etc., I do not recommend purchasing the newly packaged continuous spray cans. I purchased 2 cans and have to put the can on a table and use the palm of my hand on the nozzle and then apply my other hand on top of it then use both my arms to push down on the nozzle to make it spray. There is no way I can apply the spray on my body while I have to use both hands and arms to get enough pressure to push down the nozzle button when the can is situated on a table. I am giving the 2 cans I purchased to a younger person who has the strength to use them. I'm so sad no thought was given by the manufacturer to older citizens and handicapped individuals, who rely on this product for pain relief. I can't imagine what Troy Healthcare, LLC, the manufacturer was thinking when they decided to do away with the pump spray bottle that could be used successfully by just pressing the nozzle with one index finger. Sometimes innovation is not so beneficial for the masses. This is definitely a perfect example when innovation failed big time!!! Not happy that now that I have to search for a competitive product that has a pump style nozzle so I am able to use it. Read more

The pain relief is instant, and it has a nice'warming' feel after you spray it on that only lasts a second or two but the pain relief is ongoing, the only draw back is the smell,it's not overpowering neither does it linger but it is a odor,not much,I recommend it for pain relief Read more

it doesn't spray and when I finally got it to spray by taking the tip off and putting it back onit did not take the pain away like my old bottle of supposedly the same medicine. please credit my account. Read more