tried multiple times, seems that in order to have bandages working, no weapon must be held in hands and must remain still to keep the cure effect.
Don’t know why the paralyzed effect appear when using bandages.
There is no way to know that you cannot be holding a weapon to get them to work, which is the problem. This is the only item I can think that has that kind of restriction, and it would be nice if there was some way to communicate this without just passing it person to person on message boards.