u/orangeyouglad__

just wanted to share my gnarly thumb after getting fucked from repeated dyshidrosis flares around my cuticle/under my nail bed. it gets damaged at the cuticle and then grows out all wonky.

luckily, with enough time and care, it can grow back normally! i’ve been a fellow sufferer since 2019 with no end in sight! all over my fingers/hands.

triggers include but are not limited to: stress, illness, my luteal phase, things i touch, etc.

oh i’m also the person who got cellulitis/lymphangitis as a result of my dyshidrosis and almost went septic 😭! see post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dyshidrosis/s/OsW5p1Y948

i wash every other day. devastated. half my hair gone with no stop in sight. no glps. no weight loss. ferritin in the 70s. my body just fucking hates me and i’m at my wits end. there seems to be no answer or solution.

there’s nothing left to do.

iron is fine, vitamin d is fine, i eat good, exercise, use minoxidil religiously, i take care of myself. and still, i have chronic TE.

sure im an anxious person and could reduce my stress, but that’s just being an adult. there’s no reason this should make my hair fall out in clumps.

i have episode after episode with little relief. regrowth starts and falls right back out. i’m sick seeing the size of the clumps of hair in the shower. i’m so, so sad.

and there’s nothing i can do.

this is my first baby three from this collection and I was so excited to open it!

I pulled the elephant, but the elephant face is super lopsided I don’t know if it’s supposed to be like that or if mine is like a manufacturing error. it looks worse in person. 🧍🏻‍♀️

Saw this novel recommended on tiktok and took a chance. i LOVED it. Full of twists which are my fav, & def fast paced. Blew through it in 2 days.

I thought it was interesting that there is a male narrator, felt similar to You by Caroline Kepnes.

@mods sry for the repost i had to read the rules! ♥︎

I love this chicken breast from whole foods but the macros seem wrong to me… i pulled them directly from the website.

how is 3oz of chicken breast only 14g of protein? i understand it has a marinade but that still doesn’t make sense.

what would be a closer estimate?

hi! i’ve had dyshidrosis since 2019 (started when i was 18 years old) on my fingers and hands.

triggered by stress, illness, and most things aside from unscented soap. sometimes it seems to happen for no reason tbh.

my fingernails are damaged and my hands are a wreck. despite this, i was stupid and decided it would be a good idea to try out pottery. the clay got into one of the blisters and got infected.

ended up with a blood infection, as pictured in image 3. whole arm was on fire and my lymph node in my armpit was super swollen. couldn’t bend my finger either. went to a walk in and they told me to rush to the ER as i could develop sepsis.

unfortunately i’m allergic to doxycycline, penicillin, and azithromycin, so the ER doctor put me on levoquin which gave me ✨tendinopathy✨ and i couldn’t walk for a few days. still in pain but able to walk now.

i was switched to bactrim & im on day 4 of 7, and haven’t had any issues—god fucking bless!

i suppose i’m making this post as a warning to be careful, as dyshidrosis is essentially an open wound. i’ve been dealing with this for a long time and never had an infection… but one time was enough to almost kill me.

i’ve been suffering with dyshidrotic eczema on my hands for years. Sometimes there’s a trigger sometimes there’s not. I recently noticed that the shape of my nails has changed.

In the first photo, you can see that my nail beds are slender whereas in the second photo, they are wider and flatter.

When I have a flare on my fingertips, they get very swollen and filled with fluid, you know the drill. (I had a pretty bad flare a week and a half ago and it’s in the healing stage now. I used clobetasol and Aveeno moisturizer to treat it.)

The after photo kind of looks like my fingers are starting to club, which can be a sign of serious illness. Before I jump to the conclusion that I have a pulmonary disease or something, has anyone had swelling and widening of the nail beds and fingertips from repeated episodes of dyshidrosis?

There is a clear difference and I am a little worried.

Hi all. I (25f) stopped taking 25mg of spironolactone in Dec 2025. I started shedding the first week of February.

For added context, I am *very* TE prone. My body hates change, i have chronic TE. I knew stopping spiro would be a trigger, but this is a BAD episode.

It’s now the second week of may and there’s no signs of slowing. I am seeing some regrowth! but the shedding continues. i use 5% topical minxodil daily (and have for the past two years). i also take vitamins and have a healthy diet. my ferritin isn’t great (in the 40s) but i struggle tremendously with iron supplements because i have ibs-c.

i guess im wondering… am i going to lose all of my hair? or will it slow with some long strands left? i can’t believe how long the shedding has last this time around. if you see the attached photo, that’s the size of my hair loss every wash day—give or take (i wash every other day).

this isn’t my first rodeo, but it hurts every time. my hair feels a good 30-50% thinner, widening part, overall thinning, classic TE.