Sticky Skin Has Worsened To Something Unimaginable!

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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!

[mahniah]

mzrock -- can you give us an update of your experience with acupuncture.   Has anyone else tried it?

[dustyrustee]

Somehow you are being exposed to toxic mold.  The spores contaminate everything.  Check where you live/work for mold growth. It can be hidden inside of walls from plumbing or roof leak too.

[Brickem]

Totally wrong.

[jalual]

I first noticed that my underarm area was sticky after my shower, so I assumed that I had not rinsed well.  I would jump back in the shower and rinse again, to no avail!  I also noticed that my face still felt sticky after cleansing and, once again, assumed it was from failure to rinse or cleanse well enough,  A few weeks ago, after enjoying several days of outdoor festivals, I began noticing that paper towels were sticking to my hands when I tried to dry.  However, in every case, my skin was fine when it dried!  I have found that drying with a hair dryer works really well to shorten the duration of this problem.  Once I figured that out, I promptly forgot about it until last night when I mentioned it to my sister.  She found this forum.  I had until then assumed that it was from the number of capsules that I take in a day (4 potassium, 1 prilosec, and 1 celebrex).  I figured that was a lot of 'gel' for my body to absorb!  I don't have a mold problem in my house, so I think I can rule that out, but maybe I was just wrong about the capsules causing it, also!  Maybe I do need to further research this (I did ask my family doctor about it, but they'd never heard of anything like that!)

[pierre29177]

hey , i have the same as you.i become sick as my roomate three years ago. No i don't really know if i ve sticky skin but all my clothes are broken after one week . it's like  if there was soemthing that make them stick to my skin . i also have exactely the same problem as you have with your eyes but especially in the morning. i can say my eyes as my mouth are dry all the time. i also develloped some kind of rosacea on my feet, hands and ears. thos parts of the body are red plus it's also really hot. i feel bad all the time becasue all my clothes destroy so fast now even if i don't wash them. With my family it's ok  now because we tested thos facts. when a jumper took three days to be broken with me it took two months for the others menbers of the family . it's the ame with bedsheets. it's like there is a sticky film on the clothes , especially when i sweat and than everything stuck in it. if my skin is still a bit wet and i wear something all the fibers stick to the skin . the biggest problemn for the clothes is the money it cost. but for the rest , sticky eyes , dry mouth , redness of the fingers , it's just a serious handicapt in my life. i really also have problems with the regulation of temperature of my body now. it's horrible...i m always cold...it become so hard. if someone have the same experience please share.

[bridge8972]

I have lived with this horrid condition for 2yrs + now. I have been though chemo and proton radiation and it started after the radiation i have been seen by some of the best drs in sloan kettering. I saw a throat specialist at sloan tell me learn to deal with it and mass general hospital in boston and every one of them passed it off as a sinus infection or just didnt know what it is. i even had a ear nose & throat dr out if holy name hospital teaneck nj tell me he didnt see anything wrong ..
It started out just in my nose then it went to my nose & throat then to ears and the bottoms of my feet now its all over my face everywhere even my rectal and vaginal area .. i have struggled so hard cause it causes my legs to go numb and my go the constant burning where ever it goes ..today was the first day i felt like i wasnt crazy THANK GOD FOR THIS FOURM BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN ON THE BRINK OF SUICUDE .. i have trouble swallowing and chest pains and throwing up ..I dont have a colon anymore and i get intestinal blockages because what is draining down my throat builds up and turns to a molases substance and then i can go ..i found another link that says that doxil a chemo drug i was on is linked to this plus we have had seveal floods so i had been exposed to mold but all i want now is help can someone please tell me how to treat this because it is killing me ..i have trouble urinating too ..it does tend lighten up from time to time but never goes away completely. When it comes back each time its more sever than before ..i get a high fwver out of the blue a day or so before it hits then it seems to come out of my pores and eyes nose ears everywhere ..please help!

[duts36]

Thanks for your input I have experienced  sticky skin in various parts of my body Last year I had radiation treatment for prostate cancer  The sticky skin started about six months later Have not consulted any one yet with regard to the issue.