I did until like a week ago.
I’d had enough as they hurt and wasn’t getting better, I do a lot of rock climbing so the chalk makes the issue worse, plus I have not been doing great mentally so diet and hydration was awful.
What I did:
- Bought some Nails Inc Cuticle Oil (I am male, but it works). You just add a bit and rub it in. I now use this most days and definitely after climbing.
- I know that with a poor diet I am likely missing vitamins as some of my nails had lines down them. I take a cheap multi vitamin everyday.
- I am conscious to drink more water, although I already drink 2-3liter a day.
- I am making plans to improve my eating habits as I get decision fatigue and really just don’t eat enough. Think I’ve been alive too long that food is just meh at this point. But I went climbing yesterday on hardly anything and felt incredibly sick.
My nails are better now. My mental health not so much but one step at a time.
I didn’t know about the nail ridges-vitamin deficiency thing until my lady told me recently, makes sense. She got me a case of the ensure plus for extra calories to supplement through the day and it does help. Eat some veggies, get some sunlight, maybe go to a shelter and walk some dogs. Hopefully the physical elevates the mental, I’m in a similar spot and hope you get feeling better internet stranger 👍
Thank you for this.
I already do plenty of walking as if I didn’t I don’t think I’d be here honestly. I might look into ensure as I’ve had them from the doctor when my diet has been poor in the past.
Don’t know if you’re the same but life’s like a rollercoaster man. One minute I’m doing good and mentally happy the next I can’t get out of bed and off YouTube.
It’s like I’m just passing as much time as possible with no end goal in mind. Just death at the end.
Sorry for being dark.
I’m positive 95% of your results came just from drinking more water. when your hands look like the picture, it’s almost definitely because you’re chronically dehydrated.
I think the vitamin deficiency is more likely, I have similar issues. Lived in Phoenix for years and had a water bottle on hand all the time, it’s a part of the bigger picture but not the main driver I’d surmise.
I am not so sure. As I said in the post I drink a lot of water.
So I wake up and have a cup of tea and for evening meal I have a can of Pepsi. Everything else in the day is just water and never less than 1.5 litres.
For me at least I think it was the climbing chalk and poor eating habits so lacking vitamins. I guess I’ll never truly know and it’s good advice to be hydrated.
This is very relatable. Can I ask you about your age? I’m 35 and struggling with eating enough my whole life.
I’m early 40’s. Never really had a big appetite and just saw food as a means to not die, but things are untenable right now.
Yeah, I’m about the same… when my mental health is good, I eat better. But at the slightest bit of stress: I just quit eating lol.
I used to get this all the time. Now, if I get a hangnail, I liberally drench my hands in lotion, and put on nitrile gloves for an hour or so to force it to soak in.
A family friend gets me Gojo Hand Medic, which my fragile masculinity appreciates.
I also found it works well for breaking in leather work gloves.
I did, till I started using soaps without SLS compounds.
It’s a shame that every sink in every public toilets, workplace toilets or other people’s house still has soap with Sodium Laureth Sulphate in. Even the products that say “gentle on skin” tend to be full of the stuff.
I tried various moisturisers for years with not a lot of effect. Swapping my soap, shower gel and shampoo for ones without SLS in them really made such a difference, and so quickly.
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.
Such is the nature of my work. Is that what caused this?
no?? you just have massive bloody spots where skin is missing and didn’t have a problem with it?
Hand lotion and learn how to give yourself a manicure. 5 minutes a week and your hands will thank you.
The clean hands club!!
Yes but I have acral deciduous skin syndrome.
Fuck you.
Just fuck you and quick attacking me
Go rinse them fingertips in vinegar.
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
I’m not going to tell you how long I looked at this, expecting to find loss or Saddam Hussein.
My first thought was “holding a dick” then I went to these memes
That’s a girthy dick
You need something with hydrocortisone to soothe. Not just a lotion
I find just snipping off the skin tags with clippers keeps it from going too far.
That’s like wiping your nose until it’s a bloody stump. Your hands are falling apart because they’re dry. Moisturize!
Sure. That works preventatively. Once you have the peeling, best to clip and sanitize.
The problem is they’re never around when I need them 🙃
If having lotion in your hands makes you uncomfortable, try just dabbing a tiny bit on the the backs of your fingernails and rubbing them against each other to spread it only on your cuticles. No slimy fingerpads or palms, and it really helps.
