The clean hands club!!
Have you tried going to a doctor to see what is wrong? PPE if you work somewhere hazardous? Moisturizing if you’re somewhere very dry?
When I was a kid, my elementary school was made of bricks that had a surface texture like 20 grit sand paper. Touching that shit started a chain reaction that inevitably ended with hands looking like this. Oh you accidentally brushed the back of your hand against the brick at recess? Hope you like beef jerky skin.
I remember ours (I think both schools were built in the early 1900s) being rough but not that rough.
Why did I get in this thread 😨
No.
No! Never! What the hell causes that? Is it a dry skin thing? Looks painful and disturbing.
Compulsive skin picking. I wish I could stop, but I can’t.
For me it is biting and chewing the skin around.
When it bleeds I also drink the blood.
Yes, I’m a vampiric who selfcanibalizes myself.
One day I will evolve to Ouroboros
If having lotion in your hands makes you uncomfortable, try just putting a
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Augh, I’m okay but so embarrassed!
Just gonna add, you can use a stick of lip balm on cuticles!
This appears to be a lack of melatonin. When you get sun, there should at least be some pigment.
Melatonin is what makes people sleep
You’re thinking of melinoma
This isnt reddit: melanin
This isn’t reddit: malicious
welcome to redditfication of lemmy.
Time to move on to telnet mud games.
Yo you playing Achaea? 👀
Melinoma if what makes people have cancer
You’re thinking of melancholyMelancholy is what Hamlet had, I think you mean Melania
Melania is what turns people orange. You’re thinking of mitochondria
Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
You’re thinking of The Moops.
Guys clearly you’re all thinking of the pasta sauce, Marijuana
Mitochondria is the power house of the cell, you’re thinking of Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles is Hell’s Messenger, you’re thinking of malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne pathogen. You’re thinking of maltodextrin.
Yore thinking of a feeling of sadness, I think the word you’re thinking of is Melania.
Stop eating your cuticles, lol
Can’t stop. Won’t stop.
GameStop
Not all fingers, usually only 1 or 2. Now my left index and right thumb has these holes
POST PICTURES OF YOUR HAND
Your hands look like my hands. Have you been complimented on your lunula?
Great, now there are hands fetishists too?!
Show fingers
Post palms
Palm pre
How is that in any way shocking?
All my life
I’ve been searching for something
I prayed for a cuticle
My fingernails and cuticles are hella fucked up. 😩
Like my nails aren’t smooth. They’re like… Low poly models with visible faces.
That’s … normal
Moisturizer
Get a brand called Cetaphil and use it on your hands every day or whenever they dry out.
I’ve worked in construction and I like working as a mechanic in my own vehicles … it means my bare hands get exposed to a lot of dirt, sand, mud, metal, oil and chemicals … which means I have to wash with lots of soap and chemicals. In the winter it’s worse in the dry cold air.
So my hands get dry chapped and even cracked and start bleeding. My skin is so cracked and broken now that I can no longer use my finger print ID on my phone. I’ve tried resetting it multiple times but a new crack forms and then no longer works again.
For years I put up with it and pretended I was a man that didn’t need help … but I got sick and tired of it and started using moisturizer and I really don’t care what anyone says about it.
I still get dry cracked skin but not as often and not as severe.
Cerave is even better than O’Keefes
I have similar problems and have found many solutions, but Vaseline and cotton gloves overnight are freaking amazing. Kinda gross though. It’s like the nuclear treatment, afterwhich normal moisturizer works for maintenance.
I don’t blame you … when your skin is literally melting into blistering flesh, you will try anything to save yourself. I remember when it first happened about 15 years ago, it went from a small open sore to full blown skin melting all over my hand, forearm up to my elbow the reaction was so strong. I was bandaged up to the elbow for about a month before I saw a dermatologist and it was scary because I thought I was done for and that it would only get worse.
So any nuclear option that is gross, ugly, weird or just strange is fine by me as long as it works.
Like the old saying … ‘If it looks stupid but it works, then it isn’t stupid’
Pain relief O’Keefes. Stuff is miracles.
Am electrician, I carve my hands up all the time.
I swear by O’Keefes “working hands”
It’s one of the few moisturisers that doesn’t leave my hands feeling greasy
I tried a bunch of them including O’Keefes but I’m allergic to something and I’ve had the skin on my hands break out in blisters. I can abuse them with motor oil and auto chemicals but if some weird skin lotion ingredient gets into a crack in my skin, my skin literally just starts to break down for some reason.
Cetaphil is the only one I’ve found that doesn’t have any weird ingredients … it was recommended by the dermatologist that treated me during a really bad break out. Haven’t had a problem since.
Ah man that must suck. At least you found something!
Dermatophagia is a bitch.
Get some of that nail polish that prevents you from biting your nails and tastes really sour and put it on your skin instead of your nails. It won’t stop you from biting necessarily but it will stop you from unconsciously biting.
This might backfire…I love sour candy
Meant bitter, not sour. There is no way anybody likes that taste.
But even if you do, for me it wasn’t ‘this is so disgusting I’m not gonna bite anymore’ but more my brain snapping out of unconsciously biting as soon as I realized the taste and then you get a brief moment to consciously stop.
Okay, but how do I trim and smooth out the skin irregularities near my fingers?
Also, where do I acquire the spare skin I need to eat?
Very relatable
- You don’t. It fixes itself.
- Acquire some roadkill and skin it.
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