Anyone else never been able to find their trigger? Feel jealous every time I read about people who have definitively found theirs.
I started getting it around 12/13 and now I'm 33. It has come and gone for the past 20 years, seemingly at random. I've run the gamut trying to find the triggers. Over the years I've had it during the summer heat and also during the dead of winter, and every other season in between. I've gotten it when I've been super stressed, and also when I've been completely stress-free.
Every time I think of a possible trigger and start avoiding it, it proves me wrong and comes back. Eggs, flour, coffee, nickel, cleaning products, milk, I've tried so many things. It makes me feel crazy and I get paranoid about every possible thing being a potential trigger. Once I even thought my trigger could be old people lol.
There have even been whole years during which it completely disappeared and I almost forgot I ever had it. But it always eventually comes back. Pretty much the same spot, my ring finger and pinky finger on my right hand, sometimes spreading to other fingers or parts of my palm.
The only thing that really helps is steroid creams, but sometimes it flares back up immediately after finishing a course and I feel hopeless, since I can't just use keep using the steroid creams perpetually. So then it's two weeks of suffering and two weeks of relief from the cream, rinse and repeat, hoping it decides to fuck off on its own eventually. And usually it will at some point, after a few months. Just so frustrating.