mia1181
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The skin on my hands and feet has always been senstive to water. I remember as a child I would always show my friends how quickly my skin would wrinkle after getting in the pool.
But since this past summer I noticed it''s gotten really bad, although now I am just wondering if it has always been like that and that consulting Dr. Google is just making me paranoid....
So everyone''s hands wrinkle when they are wet, but do your palms? My palms do. The skin gets very thick and almost painful, but not really. It''s more of an uncomfortable, tight, dry and veeery slightly burning sensation. It doesn''t feel great, but it''s also not the end of the world and a while after my hands are dry it goes away.
So naturally, I have been searching medical symptoms sites and found that I may have "Aquagenic wrinkling of the palms."
http://dermnetnz.org/reactions/wrinkling.html
Although the pictures I see look worse than my hands the description sounds about right. I guess there''s not a lot known about this condition but it seems harmless and can be helped by applying a certain type of deoderant to the palms before bed (I have done this and have found relief but part of me doesn''t want to treat the sympotom without knowing the cause). From my research, the cause is unknown, but there is a link between AWP and Cystic Fibrosis, which freaks me out. I *know* I obviously don''t have CF, but I have read some people may be a carrier of the gene that causes CF.
So sorry for all the rambling, I really just want to know if other people''s palms wrinkle too and maybe I am just being paranoid...
But since this past summer I noticed it''s gotten really bad, although now I am just wondering if it has always been like that and that consulting Dr. Google is just making me paranoid....
So everyone''s hands wrinkle when they are wet, but do your palms? My palms do. The skin gets very thick and almost painful, but not really. It''s more of an uncomfortable, tight, dry and veeery slightly burning sensation. It doesn''t feel great, but it''s also not the end of the world and a while after my hands are dry it goes away.
So naturally, I have been searching medical symptoms sites and found that I may have "Aquagenic wrinkling of the palms."
http://dermnetnz.org/reactions/wrinkling.html
Although the pictures I see look worse than my hands the description sounds about right. I guess there''s not a lot known about this condition but it seems harmless and can be helped by applying a certain type of deoderant to the palms before bed (I have done this and have found relief but part of me doesn''t want to treat the sympotom without knowing the cause). From my research, the cause is unknown, but there is a link between AWP and Cystic Fibrosis, which freaks me out. I *know* I obviously don''t have CF, but I have read some people may be a carrier of the gene that causes CF.
So sorry for all the rambling, I really just want to know if other people''s palms wrinkle too and maybe I am just being paranoid...
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