hi there, i've been reading comments for a couple days now. I got hurt at work 2 1/2 years ago. I noticed my hands being sticky a couple years ago. i noticed objects in the kitchen were sticky, salt and pepper shakers, nobs and handles. my first thought was cooking practices of my roommates. maybe cooking with grease and it gets in the air and on things in the kitchen.
I used to have semi rough hands from being a truck driver, but over the past couple years, the roughness has gone away, and i'm callous free. My hands are so sticky when i put them under the kitchen sink. I do this a lot. I feel uncomforatble with anything greasy on my hands so i always rince or wash while making stuff in the kitchen. If i handle food, i at least rince my hands before handling a utensil, so i dont keep re-greasing my hands. I know its a little bit ocd, but only a little.
When i use the computer, which i do a lot these days, i keep washing my hands so my mouse wont get sticky because when sticky gets on stuff it is hard to wash off. I used a baking soda solution to get stick off my kitchen stuff. I also, after washing my hands and dry them, i will pet my dog, as this makes my hands feel smooth and dry. I hunt my dog down after washing my hands, lol, just to get the less sticky feel. when my hands are wet they stick like glue almost. I take anti-inflammitory medicines is all, tramadol. I use head and shoulders shampoo and i drink a sparkling water that has sucralose for sweetener and has patassium benzoate for a preservative. I'm guessing that everything has a form of benzoate in it, thus i'm not willing to think that it is the culprit.
I think it is possible that my change in lifestyle and less work with my hands has somehting to do with it. More sensitive to what i come in contact with. That said, when i use my kitchen sink is where i notice it so much, but i will rince my hands 5 to 10 times while preparing meals. It just seemed that i had a wax covering when the water was coming out of the faucet and i couldn't figure out why it would seem to happen at the kitchen sink, though i rinse a lot in the kitchen because i might only have a fingertip that touched a piece of ham or when i cracked an egg. Always to the sink and so sticky.
I feel that i have a mild form of ocd where i must always have clean hands, but sticky doesn't fit in there. I put in a new hot water heater in about 3 years ago, timeline is right, but i'm guessing it is me and not the water or water heater.
Because of (mild) ocd, I am a creature of habit and eat the same food and do everything the same way. my only changes have been, the anti inflamatory medicine to help pain, i stopped drinking soda and started drinking the sparkling water with sucralose. Sucralose is supposedly not metabolized so becomes a free sweetener and not hurt your body. I would still brush my teeth though and only drink pure water during sleep hours. I was hospitalized once for a PE (pulmonary embolism) and was on blood thinners, but not for the last year and a half. I dont work with my hands like i used to so i dont have any callouses any longer.
another thing i have is when i wake in the morning my throat is parched dry, every morning. and for 7 years or so i've had a tough time swallowing, some days worse and some days not. I'm sorry all, for this long message. I dont sweat a lot but as Summer arrives, i'll pay attention to sweat now. What i dont get is how clueless doctors seem to be. I guess once they know enough not to call it a practice, we'll all be ok.
I'll wet my hands and press them to a doctors face and let them tell me it isn't sticky.
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hi there, i've been reading comments for a couple days now. I got hurt at work 2 1/2 years ago. I noticed my hands being sticky a couple years ago. i noticed objects in the kitchen were sticky, salt and pepper shakers, nobs and handles. my first thought was cooking practices of my roommates. maybe cooking with grease and it gets in the air and on things in the kitchen.
I used to have semi rough hands from being a truck driver, but over the past couple years, the roughness has gone away, and i'm callous free. My hands are so sticky when i put them under the kitchen sink. I do this a lot. I feel uncomforatble with anything greasy on my hands so i always rince or wash while making stuff in the kitchen. If i handle food, i at least rince my hands before handling a utensil, so i dont keep re-greasing my hands. I know its a little bit ocd, but only a little.
When i use the computer, which i do a lot these days, i keep washing my hands so my mouse wont get sticky because when sticky gets on stuff it is hard to wash off. I used a baking soda solution to get stick off my kitchen stuff. I also, after washing my hands and dry them, i will pet my dog, as this makes my hands feel smooth and dry. I hunt my dog down after washing my hands, lol, just to get the less sticky feel. when my hands are wet they stick like glue almost. I take anti-inflammitory medicines is all, tramadol. I use head and shoulders shampoo and i drink a sparkling water that has sucralose for sweetener and has patassium benzoate for a preservative. I'm guessing that everything has a form of benzoate in it, thus i'm not willing to think that it is the culprit.
I think it is possible that my change in lifestyle and less work with my hands has somehting to do with it. More sensitive to what i come in contact with. That said, when i use my kitchen sink is where i notice it so much, but i will rince my hands 5 to 10 times while preparing meals. It just seemed that i had a wax covering when the water was coming out of the faucet and i couldn't figure out why it would seem to happen at the kitchen sink, though i rinse a lot in the kitchen because i might only have a fingertip that touched a piece of ham or when i cracked an egg. Always to the sink and so sticky.
I feel that i have a mild form of ocd where i must always have clean hands, but sticky doesn't fit in there. I put in a new hot water heater in about 3 years ago, timeline is right, but i'm guessing it is me and not the water or water heater.
Because of (mild) ocd, I am a creature of habit and eat the same food and do everything the same way. my only changes have been, the anti inflamatory medicine to help pain, i stopped drinking soda and started drinking the sparkling water with sucralose. Sucralose is supposedly not metabolized so becomes a free sweetener and not hurt your body. I would still brush my teeth though and only drink pure water during sleep hours. I was hospitalized once for a PE (pulmonary embolism) and was on blood thinners, but not for the last year and a half. I dont work with my hands like i used to so i dont have any callouses any longer.
another thing i have is when i wake in the morning my throat is parched dry, every morning. and for 7 years or so i've had a tough time swallowing, some days worse and some days not. I'm sorry all, for this long message. I dont sweat a lot but as Summer arrives, i'll pay attention to sweat now. What i dont get is how clueless doctors seem to be. I guess once they know enough not to call it a practice, we'll all be ok.
I'll wet my hands and press them to a doctors face and let them tell me it isn't sticky.
April 17, 2012 - 10:22amThis Comment
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