Anyone?

Interesting how much people don't understand. So for u normies, non autistic people here: NO , the skin doesn't get like that by its own, it's not moisture, cream or anything, it's just we can't stop messing with our thingers and constantly damage the border of nails like that.

No! Never! What the hell causes that? Is it a dry skin thing? Looks painful and disturbing.

How did you get that photo of my hand?

The story of my life...

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
  
  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.
  
  Yeah; when those lines are horizontal – though –, you may want to worry. But vertically, usually not.
- 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.
- 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 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.
  
  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 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.
- 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.

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.

Fuck you.
Just fuck you and quit attacking me
- Go rinse them fingertips in vinegar.

- 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 🤢
- My girlfriend does this to me during sex. Peels me like a disobedient potato
- Ok. Where did I put my eye gauging spoon.
- I can just feel this image. This is just the worst thing I could have seen tonight. Good job.
- Please cease existing.
- 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.
  
  Wait until this happens to your foreskin.

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.

Problem solved
- Where we're going we won't need fingernails
  
  Where is @FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com when you need him?
  
  Thanks Mr Dinosaur man!
- You joke, but I'm missing a nail on one of my big toes and it's so much more comfortable and less hassle that I kind of wish all my toenails were gone.
  ...not so sure about fingernails though. They're pretty useful for picking things up or praying things open.
  
  Is your toe nail completely missing, or do you still have some root growing? I have two that have a bit of root that just grows and gets uncomfortable until I pull it out. Not sure is trade the rest of my nails for that tbh
  
  I've got one fucky nail and every two weeks I've gotta pull it with tweezers because it grows in cup shaped and the point of the cup is too pointy for my delicate toesies. I'm thinking about burning it off with silver nitrate.
- Years back I was briefly into creepypastas. One I read was a guy who had a habit of chewing his nails and that people around him always made a big deal about it but he thought they were overreacting. At the end it was revealed that he had long ago chewed away his fingernails and was now chewing through his actual fingers without realizing it. As a result he was institutionalized for his delusions, I think.
  This picture makes me think of that. Thanks, I guess.
- When you refuse to give answers when tortured! You clearly are no rat. 🙌
- No.
- Please tell me this is AI
  
  Nope, it's anoychia, the picture went viral a few years ago whe someone posted it on reddit. It's an extremely rare genetic mutation and they literally never grew nails.
- The perfect hand doesn't ex-

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.

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

Stop eating your cuticles, lol
- Can't stop. Won't stop.

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
  
  Melinoma is what makes people have cancer
  You’re thinking of melancholy
  
  This isnt reddit: melanin

I find just snipping off the skin tags with clippers keeps it from going too far.
- This is precisely what I do. Every few days or so.
- 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 🙃
  
  Yeah, no kidding. I bought several so they're usually nearby. If I chew on them, it's game over, angry red swelling for a few days. I can usually hold off pong enough to get to the clippers. Usually.

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.

Such is the nature of my work. Is that what caused this?

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.
- 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 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.
  
  I swear by O'Keefes "working hands"
  It's one of the few moisturisers that doesn't leave my hands feeling greasy
- Cerave is even better than O’Keefes

Mom turned me onto corn husker's oil. Figured since we shared genes, and it worked for her, might as well. Shit is the bomb. Tiny dab'll do ya, doesn't leave your hands greasy, dries fast, works fast, cheap, all that.
My fingertips split in cold and dry air. Apparently I got a weird gene from great grandma, never met another person with the problem. Tiny crack across the tip, skin dies and turns hard, splits deeper, rinse and repeat. And the pain is stunning, like having an infected splinter stuck in your fingertip. Got that shit this year working outside in February and into March. Only took a few nights of using corn husker's oil, GTG.
- Those cracks are called skin fissures.
- My Grannie told me to lotion up and wear rubber gloves while sleeping to help my dry hands. I only did once, but I am now adamant about keeping my hands moisturized and covered during the winter work weeks. My job is messy so I don't mind at all.
  I will keep that oil in mind if it ever gets out of hand again.

The clean hands club!!

no?? you just have massive bloody spots where skin is missing and didn't have a problem with it?

If having lotion in your hands makes you uncomfortable, try just putting a
- Guys, they got Mouselemming
  
  Augh, I'm okay but so embarrassed!
  Just gonna add, you can use a stick of lip balm on cuticles!

Yes but I have acral deciduous skin syndrome.

Why did I get in this thread 😨

You need something with hydrocortisone to soothe. Not just a lotion

Hand lotion and learn how to give yourself a manicure. 5 minutes a week and your hands will thank you.

No.

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.
- 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.
- 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.

POST PICTURES OF YOUR HAND
- Great, now there are hands fetishists too?!
  
  How is that in any way shocking?
  
  Show fingers
- Your hands look like my hands. Have you been complimented on your lunula?
- Not to shame, but uh, what, uh... what exactly were you doing right before taking that picture?

All my life
- I’ve been searching for something

Hello Anxiety, my old friend...

Your hands are dry. Use moisturizer. Or lather your hands in Vaseline before bed and sleep with cotton gloves. You will have a new set of hands in the morning.

No.
Moisturize with lotion, especially if you wash them very frequently or have other underlying skin conditions such as pet allergies.

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 don't know - those fingernails and cuticles look way better than mine!

Not all fingers, usually only 1 or 2. Now my left index and right thumb has these holes

If your cuticles do this on their own, or you notice pitting on or under your nails, it might be an early sign of psoriasis.
- This one

My sibling in Christ Please Drink Some Water

How did y'all get a picture of my hand after a couple weeks of biting my fingernails?

I have cracks on the corners of my fingers, beside the nail. They run deep and I have to put Polysporin with lidocaine on them to reduce the throbbing sting. It's due to a combination of biting my nails and working a job that requires constant antibacterial hand-washing. I hate it.