How do I spell relief?

For the past month and a half I have been in agony and pain with severely dry and chapped lips. The chapping (is that even a word) was so bad that whenever I opened my mouth I could feel the skin on the corners of my mouth pulling and ripping apart. I tried every imaginable lip balm out there as well as vaseline. Nothing was working. Until one of my patients mentioned "how about vitamin e". Duh! Why didn't I think of that sooner? Bought a bottle of vitamin E pills over the weekend, popping a capsule open and rubbing the oil all over my lips. Not very attractive looking but it's doing the trick. At least I don't have the need to pull my lip balm out every 5 minutes. I'm hoping this thing clears up by the weekend.