No change. Regular hand cream at night....no change...eventually the skin just does not want to stay!
I have come to the conclusion that it might be turning paper pages at work? Maybe the chemicals in the paper or print have changed as this is the only time I constantly use thumb and index finger together? I have thought about using a barrier cream to see if this helps.
If anyone has any ideas please reply.
FRANKINCENSE essential oil, mixed with a hand lotion has totally releived this problem for me. The dermatologist recommended athlete's foot cream, then cortisone cream, all to no avail - I would get dry circles on the upper fingers and near the nail that would peel for days. I would wear band-aids to cover them till they healed weeks later. The process would repeat every few weeks. The frankincense oil worked immediately. Just use it every day.
Yeah, this has been maddening, skin thickening and peeling on my thumb and index fingers for over a year now. I've tried a bunch of stuff, anti fungal, cortizone, skin protectant, nail polish, it never really got better. I'm thinking it's started from an injury on the fingertips, and really must be some kind of other infection. I recently cut the tip of my middle finger on the other hand, and it started to develop there, too!
I don't buy the eczema theory - why just on my finger tips?
What I am trying right now is on the infection route. I'm soaking the finger tips in hydrogen peroxide, thinking the infection is deep in a few layers of skin. Then drying them, covering with vaseline, using a rubber glove at night to keep the vaseline on.
So far, I have seen great improvement. The skin is still a little dry, but once it finished peeling from the initial episode, it's not really peeling like before. I'm thinking that if I can just keep this outer layer of dryer skin on until the skin underneath gets healed / stronger, it will be cured.
I work / garden a lot with my hands. Thinking the infection route, I've sanitized my gardening / work gloves, too.
I'm pretty hopeful - and optimistic!! It's been driving me crazy!!
I also have this problem for many years, along with some other kind of red patch NON-ITCHY dermatitis--since I was a teenager. Since there is no cure, I suspect it is a virus. So touching anything in public will put you at risk. The doctors just don't want to scare the public.
hi,i have raynards,im told my odd circles of peeling is due to poor circulation and told good old vasaline,read all ur post and have to say after 5 years and trying the above i also find nothing helps, i cant do reflexology now which was my job ,finally going to see dermatolagist via gp and had to fight for that,they said it was scermaderma but i was told by london hospital that looking at my nails its not, i will say i have pitted nails with lines on them which is said to be due to auto amune sytstem,so look at ur nails folks ,may be due to that,il keep yah posted x
i have round circles on my finger tips too but they dont peel or stay in the same spot and they come and go i have had these now for around 4 years and they wont go ?
ARGH! same problem here. but it's just on the index fingers, so i guess i'm luckier than you are. all of your details match up with mine. hard, peeling, white, concave, numb... i'm still in high school, and i've had it since i was in the second grade. it's very annoying, and i somehow have to keep touching it, not really itch. it can occasionally hurt as well. i've had the problem for about eight years now. at first, i only really had it with my right index, but over time, it spread to the left. i've tried to find what the condition is as well, but no luck. it's good to know i'm not alone here.
I have the exact same thing. EXACTLY. The skin gets a sensation that of "sounds crazy" but like when a candle burns and if you put your fingertip in the melted warm wax like you can peel it off, but when you do peel it off, it burns underneath as if the skin isn't dead.
I have numbness in my fingers and all i can suggest is that it's poor circulation. I am going to the health food store and try something for circulation.
HOPEFULLY IT WILL WORK.
My thumb is raw and cracked as i'm typing this, very frustrating!!!!
I have had this on my thumb for 3 years. Hardened, round spot that I can not leave alone so I peel the skin, leaving a bleeding patch with cracked skin and super sensitive to heat or cold.Every time I pick it, I regret it as it hurts so bad but I keep being drawn to it.The Dr didn't know what it was..said to try wart removal stuff.I researched it and all my symptoms are pointing to scleroderma...pretty scary as I have most of the symptoms, shortness of breath, pain in joints, bloating and multiple other issues.
Found info here..
I am a 55 year old female.
I have the exact problem and went to my dermatologist. She did a skin culture and said that it's a form of psoriasis that tends to attack the area of the hand that gets a lot of use. It can also affect the feet. It's usually hereditary. It may go away for a while and then return. Psoriasis is hard to treat and what works for one person may not work for another. I haven't found anything that works for me yet. If you look up the symptoms of psoriasis, it does make sense. I do a lot of crafts and sewing and the parts of the fingers that I use on both hands seems to get the redness, swelling, and peeling the most. And, of course,if you have it on the soles of your feet, that gets a lot of wear and tear, too.