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
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.
All my life
I’ve been searching for something
I prayed for a cuticle
Ok. Where did I put my eye gauging spoon.
You can always trust SatansMaggotyCumFart to chime in with the wholesome memes.
I’m starting to remember his name and I don’t want to 🤢
Stick around for a few more months and you’ll remember them no matter how hard you try to forget. They’re one of the most active users on Lemmy. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to find out they are the most active commenter.
He’s got me by 3x the comments across my accounts I believe. Fairly sure I should still be sad about that, haha
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My girlfriend does this to me during sex. Peels me like a disobedient potato
Please cease existing.
Just put some nail polish on your fingers to prevent it from happening.
Kind of reminds me of peeling a banana.
If you peel it from the other end you don’t get strings. My department in college had a thing about it to the point I don’t like bananas anymore.
I gotta try that.
Wait until this happens to your foreskin.
😬
I’m inthi picture and it hurt to see
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?
- You don’t. It fixes itself.
- Acquire some roadkill and skin it.
Very relatable
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.
Why did I get in this thread 😨
Hello Anxiety, my old friend…
No.
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.
You gave me fairly panic with that nail lines constant and I just had to go look it up.
No, nails having lines going down them is not necessarily a sign of vitamin deficiency. Turns out that the majority of the time it’s completely harmless and a sign of aging. Both index fingers and my right middle finger have a very faint dark line going from cuticle tip.
Your mileage may vary, IDK about your personal diet etc. just wanted to chime in about the nails thing
Dark lines going down on nails could also be a sign of subungual melanoma, so you might want to check for that.
Yeah; when those lines are horizontal – though –, you may want to worry. But vertically, usually not.
Interesting. Thanks and sorry for scaring you.
I would note that mine are on a single nail and less lines and more defined ridges where you can run another nail over and feel it bumping across.
No need to apologize!!
I thrive on neurotic energy??
Well I’m always looking up things that were in so knowledge is power and all that
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 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.
nah, it’s usually hand moisture that causes this. if you do a lot of stuff that dries your hands out, you’ll get it too. climbing chalk can do that. I also said 95% is hydration. vitamins can also help.
Comment to find this back later! I’m over 40 and just accepted my hands being fucked up as part of life.
Here is the current progress. The first one is from 2nd May and the second is today. You can see there has been significant improvement and they are not sore anymore.
My sibling in Christ Please Drink Some Water
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.
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
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Great, now there are hands fetishists too?!
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How is that in any way shocking?
Your hands look like my hands. Have you been complimented on your lunula?
