ROTFLOL! Yes, you would have indeed!! I’m glad to hear you are feeling a little bit better, or at least better enough to ‘sneak up on me like that’!!
BTW, I have that ‘hand rash’ like you do, and all of my doctors have said it is stress-related (which I also believe) and there is not much I can do for it, other than put this ‘cream’ they prescribe on it. The cream is one of those things that has to be ‘compounded’ and it’s hard to get it done unless you get it at an ‘old timey’ pharmacy, bc most ‘CHAIN’ pharmacists aren’t qualified to do it! (Just another reason I do not like how CHAINS are taking over AMERICA...but’s that’s off the subject). Anyway, I get it made by one of the LONE pharmacies near my home that is not a chain, and it REALLY DOES help. It definitely helps with the itching and it makes the blisters go away quicker. I tend to get this ‘rash’ on the BACK of my hands and ALSO on the tops of my feet when I am really stressed out. Do you also get it on the back of your hands? Have you ever gotten it on the tops of your feet? Sorry to ask so many questions, but I have NEVER heard of anyone besides myself who had this condition (and neither has my dermatologist), which is why I have to get that compounded cream for it!! LOL!!
Heh, we’ve all tried to figure out what this rash is. I’ve driven everyone nuts talking about it. Several here have had a similar one - and stlnative said her mother had it forever.
I don’t even make a stab at what it is, because I’ve had so much advice and nothing really concrete on *what* it is or even what to call it. Yes, mine is *only* on the backs/tops of my hands and fingers.
When the itching starts in the thick skin of the palms, I just about go berserk, because nothing can make that stop. It doesn’t happen very often, thank goodness. And yes, it’s totally stress-related. But then, so is everything that happens to me these days.
It is very obvious, tho - tax time made it flare up - things like that. What really makes me mad is that it dies down, as if it’s going away, then comes back really hard just as I think I can forget about it.
I just use hydrocortisone cream on it and have finally accepted the fact that it’s never going to go away. The least little bump also aggravates it. Can’t keep the cream on because I need to wash my hands a lot. And it gets all over everything.
One of the cortisones is a cream - that’s my heavy-duty one. Then one is a gel - it’s softer, but it peels off like rubber cement and I don’t like that. It feels strange and looks even stranger.
Last week, I had decided I would go over to Walgreen’s (which is the only store I can get to) and find some Dermoplast spray. Well, I came home with Lanacaine spray, instead, because it was $3 cheaper, which is very important to me.
I like it a lot. It just doesn’t last as long as the other two things, but I don’t have to rub it on or keep irritating the skin, like I do with the others. Unfortunately, it’s another cortisone thing that you’re not supposed use more than 3 times per day.