Finger Tip Numbness Followed By Flaky, Peeling Skin

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Im suffering from the same thing. My finger tip becomes numb and hard not soft and sensitive like my other fingers. then once and while my skin around my nail breaks and peels away. Im scared. What is it???

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I have the same problem except I dont notice my fingers being numb. About 5 months ago they started becomming dry and peeling. Ive always bit my finger nails and that made it worse. My fingernails are so thin and the skin on my thumbs and pointer fingers are just terrible. Its on no other finger now... but was on my ring and middle finger.

The only thing I notice Ive been doing different Is that I just got on a depo shot which decreases your calcium in your body so I have to drink 2x as much milk as normal. I think this has something to do with it.

Is anyone else not getting enough vitiamins?

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47 year old femane - for about 20 years I've get the hard thickened skin on fingers (mainly thumb & pointer & middle fingers) and the bottoms of my feet, particularly heels. Stress, water, cleaning products and salt water affect my skin. To avoid cleaners, I wear expensive flock lined rubber gloves but my hands still sweat in them and bubble & peel anyways. I've tried every cream including udder balm and medications with cortisone which seldom do any good. I have found a product that does help - "Allpresan" made in Germany and is a cream foam. In Canada I am able to purchase through some beauty salons or hair/beauty product suppliers. This product has 10% Urea which is the active working ingredient. No surpise that it's recommended for diabetics. This product is a solution but the condition is reoccurring which is the problem. I've done cleanses, altered my diet, you name it - frustrated and embarrassed and want to find the root cause of this anoying and ugly condition! Been to doctors - they say it's eczema - but it's not! I highly recommend Alpresan but still looking for the root cause. Anyone have any further answers or suggestions?

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I have developed the same thing... Unexplained swelling of the fingers, followed by lightly peeling skin (it's not really painful, just annoying). Now I've also started to get pain in the tip of my pointer finger. I have solar dermatitis and thought that it may be because of this, but I haven't experienced the slight peeling and nerve pain before. What do people do to deal? This is a really terrible thing to have to deal with.

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I've been having the same problem for 3-4 years. It has gone away for a period of months but then comes back covering more area than before. I have gone to two separate dermotologists who both insist it is exzema but none of the treatments have worked. I have even subjected myself to wearing plastic gloves loaded with steroidal creams and goop at night. The only thing this does is help the raw skin heal faster but it never eliminates the episodes of skin thickening then peeling. I kept thinking it was some type of fungal infection but after reading the posts on here I'm discouraged by that path too. I'm beginning to believe its some type of genetic immune disorder. I guess its not life threatening so no one will ever do research on this condtion. How depressing...

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My fingers are peeling and that is what brought me to this blog. I visited other sites, too, before I visited this site. Visiting the other sites, I learned that staph infections can cause blistering and peeling. It actually sounds as if some of the visitors to this blog have a Staph infection.

I suppose I may also have a Staph infection, but I have no blistering, which seems to be a key determiner between Staph infection and some other dermatological problems.

It makes more since to me, though, that I would have a Staph infection than any of the other things, since a Staph infection can be brought on by an open wound , especially if the wound was placed there by a physician in a hospital. I just had finger surgery and the peeling began only several days after the surgery.

I wondered if the peeling could just be dead skin which lacked blood during the tourniquet procedure.

Any insight would be appreciated.

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Hi,
Iam hoping one of you can help me. My husband has had pain in his feet and hands since Dec. 2006, his hands and feet went numb for three-four weeks and they were very painful. When he went out in the cold his hands were use less. He has been going to the doctors since the end of Dec. and has had a lot of blood test done a stress test done and a neck MRI. They can not find anything to answer what is going on. Since Feb. his finger tips are very sore and have been hard and some have been bleeding. He also has had specks of blood under his nails for three months and the doctors just say nothing. He is 45 years old and is a smoker.
Thanks for your time.
Jan

jan65 · Newbie Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 1

Hi ,
I have read about the finger tips peeling and are very painful. My husband has had this going on for a few months and has been to the doctors many times and all sorts of test have been done but they have no answers for him. His fingers are painful and tips bleed and the skin is very hard. Does anyone have an answer?
Thanks
Jan

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