• Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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    Oh, God, that’s the worst. They’re dry AF in the summer, too, but when winter hits, if I don’t keep applying lotion every 7 and a half minutes like Cassandra from Doctor Who, then I just leave little snail trails of blood on everything I touch!

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      1 year ago

      The excessive use of lotion is probably what’s doing it. Your skin stopped making it’s own protective oils. What you’re experiencing is not normal.

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        I know, but I’m in a shitty cycle. It started when I was about 15, I’m 32 now. It’s just been a constant battle. I don’t know what originally caused it, but when I was a teen my hands just got super dry painful. I dealt with it for weeks, and then started using lotion. Have been using it ever since.