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Sticky Skin Has Worsened To Something Unimaginable!

I have had a condition for a year when my skin becomes sticky when it is wet, then becomes normal when it completely drys.  All my doctors keeps sending me to other doctors who just basically tell me they think i'm crazy.  even my whole family,when i explain my symptoms think it's all in my head.  What is so upsetting about it is that I wear plastic gloves to keep whatever it is I've got from them.  and I remove the gloves, my fingers actually stick together when I remove them until the skin dries.  Now  all my fingers, face, lips arms legs everything on my body feels as if there is a thin, film or something that noone else can see, visually but me.  I know how my own skin feels normally.  sometime it feels like I am actually wearing a mask something. There is some redness but mostly noone, including my doctors can observe anything.  My dermotologist says hes never heard of such a thing, and when I told my family this,  they think I'm making it all up!  Yet I know I've got something i can't even explain to anyone anymore.  So i just quit talkig to them about it.   I have watched this thing spread from my underarms to my whole body then into my mouth and lips.  My eyes also now have the same stickyness around them and now even inside the eye causing vision problems and ocassionally an inability to clear the film from my eyes.  There is a severe burning sensation on my face now and believe it or not, I get strange flavors in my mouth, like an extreme salty taste, a bitter peppery taste and  now even, if I had to discribe it to anyone , i'd have to call it a bitter, salty mud taste.  There is a film in my mouth and teeth too.  I can't stand this anymore, I feel like I am a complete freak.  I've have strange chest pain and shortness of breath issues, which i think are completely related to my skin issue somehow, because the film I can feel this film down the back of my throat and my breathing worsens like a bad cold that will just not go away.  but the doctors just  say lose weight, and exercise.   Which i'm doing, but Like thats going to help my skin problem.  I cant find any answers.  I now am on arsinal of vitamins and suppliments trying to  find something, ANYTHING that might by chance correct whatever this is..  And I just keep watching it worsen..  It is so disheartening.   i met a guy online who said hes had similar symptoms and that he spread it to his whole family through showing inn the same shower.. it seems the only way to make people understand what I've got, is if they had it too.  Sure would like to find someone who an relate  it ***** out here alone!
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I have suffered with the same condition for 5 years now and believe my ENT and I have figured out the problem. The sticky skin and foul taste in my mouth is most likely due to a horrible sinus infection. I had been in and out of doctors offices begging for a cure for my condition and was basically looked at like I was crazy or told it was something they’ve never heard of. After developing an enlarged submandibular gland my ENT finally requested that I have an MRI to rule out cancer. The MRI came back as having a full blown sinus infection and a lot of fluid trapped in the surrounding tissues in my head. He put me on a dose of 500 mg of antibiotics twice a day, and after completing the course, I think that I am headed in the right direction. (no pun intended) Also, Is like to mention that my symptoms started out the same way. Stickiness under an armpit, buttery taste in my mouth, the horrible sticky greasy skin especially when wet where paper towels stick to my hands, it sometimes covered my eye balls to where my vision would become distorted. It was growing everywhere. I will update this post after going back to my ENT for a follow up! Hang in there!
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Are you ok after the antibiotics treatment?
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hello sec6565 i have the same horrible feeling as you.ifeel like  sticky plastic feeling in my skin dry tight sticky feeling in my nose feels like i cant feel air in my nose when i breathe .i wonder if when my tarpaulin caught fire and i accidently breathed the toxic fumes damaged cells in my nose?.feels like empty nose syndromme i did have my turbinates reduced in size.its been 8 years of this and im still not better.i see chavella17 responded to your post sayng she or he had the same thing and is cured.so to cavella17 please let me know what u had done exactly and what it was u had.thanks.
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I don't have an answer, but I suffer from everything you're describing. I've kept it to myself until now.
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And I guess I should ask while I have the chance if anyone has had tiny crystal like formations coming out of their pores? All of them face, mouth, back, arms, my calves can be the worst at times. I don't know. I can go with a genetic disorder, but this sure isn't something schemed up in my mind, other can feel the texture of anything I've held on too for a bit of time.
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I had 7 eye surgeries to remove it from my eyes and 2 surgeries  u to remove it from the smell nerves in my nose.
Iam not sure what its called but I have the cure.  An herbalist told me the sticky skin was similar to if not identical to an absobic acid defiency, or scurvy,a vitamin c deficiency.  The cure very simple 2000 mg of vitamin c 3 times a day for a month. Trust me you don't know how bad it really is until it starts going away. When you try it let me know it works by emailing me at ***@****
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hello sec i see chavella17 responded to to your post about stickyskin.chavella said she or he had the same symptoms and had surgery and is fine now.im suffering with the same symptoms as you are.i responded to chavella 17 asking what she or he had done etc.but no response.i thought being on this forum is to help other people ?.also sec if u are getting better i would like to know thanks.
Had been dealing with the same EXACT thing for months now. Do you have stiff stick, and dry under your skin? Such as dog hair, dirt, grass, etc..?  A month ago or so i changed my diet. Ive been cutting out almost ALL sugar, except natural suger.. 100% ALL YEAST.. switched to organic milk only.. eat tons of probiotic yogurt, including a probiotic supplement.. and trying to eat as much organic and non-gmo foods that i can afford.. reduce stress.. not sure if its some type of diease that needs to run its course or if it was the changes ive made but it seems to  slowly be clearing  up!!!!
& yes you really wont know how bad it actually is until it begins to go aeay! Awful!
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Please did anyone find answers me and my family are all suffering with this sticky skin and swollen eyes we also have yellow and orange stuff coming from nails is this contagious is there help out there I'm loosing my mind ..am so drained and my poor babies have it two are _4 and a one month old ..trying to be okay all Ive been doing is looking this up and crying ..I hate this so much for all of us and for all of u .. There has to be help somewhere or a way out plz ppl keep posting any info ...I wonder if the ppl who have quit posting got rid of this ..like sticky deb I've seen her post on a lot of forums but no recent ones..I wonder if she solved this mystery ...would love to talk to her also ...at my wits end with this don't know how much longer I can deal with this oh and its definantly not a phycological problem because my mom can feel it and see it ... She says our skin and hair feels different ..wish a doctor somewhere would research this and find us a cure ... They would be rich ...again plz any info or solutions would be great
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Please open your mind to the fact that there are new genetically created diseases in the world now.  They are like nothing mankind has seen before or can even understand.  In the 1980s I was engaged to a man with a high U.S. government security clearance and he explained that the American govt. is disseminating these new biological diseases among its own population.  Supposedly the purpose is to have the U.S. population build up its natural immunities to biological weapons being developed by the world's governments.  He ended up dying from some strange biological disease after attempting to leave his secret government organization.   Frankly, I believe the real purpose behind spraying these diseases on the American public is to weaken the fibre of our country.  Our government has been infiltrated by people who serve a one world government and who wish to reduce the world's massive overpopulation.
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My Mom had this condition. She ended up dying of Skin cancer the name was Merkle skin cancer. Maybe it is related. There is research considering Merkle to to be a virus. I wish I would have read of all these others having the same thing.
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