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Three nights ago I noticed that after washing my hands they felt really sticky, almost like when you use the last paper towel on the roll and you get that glue residue on your hands. However, it wasn't the last paper towel so I figured maybe the liquid soap was really old and doing funky things so I rewashed with dish soap and again grabbed a paper towel. Once again, my hands got sticky as I dried them off. Thinking now that there was something wrong with these paper towels, I washed again and this time dried with a hand towel only to yet again find my hands sticky as they dried off. The stickiness only lasts 30-60 seconds, until the skin completely dries, but during that in-between time of soaking wet and totally dry they feel very tacky to the touch and my fingers will actually stick to each other.
The next day when I took a shower I noticed that the water was beading up on the skin on my arms. Sure enough, when I dried off afterwards I found that all of my skin is tacky to the thouch until it is completely air dried.
Today I shaved my legs and my skin felt almost like it had a layer of wax on it that kept catching the razor. The skin on my hands seems to be getting more sticky when they get wet. Water continues to bead on my skin when it gets wet. I asked my children if they can feel that my skin is sticky to the touch and they said yes.
This is affecting all of my skin now, including my face. I always put a moisturizer on my face after washing and it does not feel like my skin is absorbing it now, it just feels heavy and greasy since the lotion just sits there on top. I also tried putting lotion on my hands and it was not absorbed at all, just left my hands feeling very slimy and greasy so I wiped it off.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this or have any suggestions for what might be causing it? Thanks for any held you can give.
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most probably excessive sebum secretion due to hormonal imbalance. Sebum makes u feel waxy, esp at night and wake up time due to highest cortisol level secretion according to circidian rhythm. Just bath more frequently with warm water. It is very minor problem, as long as you manage it well.
This is just my opinion. You should consult dermatologist or endocrinologist if really bothering.
March 18, 2013 - 9:48pmThis Comment
Your input is gratefully appreciated. Interestingly, a while back, my primary doctor felt my skin and described it as feeling "waxy". Also, I previously consulted with an intuitive about the condition, and she told me it was related to excessive sebum secretion and couldn't understand why the dermatologists hadn't been able to address it.
However, I have "tested" my water on friends at their houses, and they feel the sticky from my water. Your information makes me wonder if I am reacting to something in the water that is somehow affecting my cortisol levels or my adrenals, resulting in the sticky-when-damp, waxy-build- up-when-dry skin. I've recently begun using a facial steamer using store water and my complexion problems aren't quite as bad.
Do you think there could be something in the water affecting my hormones???? What are your thoughts?
March 19, 2013 - 10:32amL.
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Although I appreciate your interest in our problem, it's obvious that you're writing about something entirely different. For most of us, the skin seems perfectly normal when dry, and it's only when damp (not wet) that it's sticky. It has nothing to do with bathing... I can scrub scrub scrub in the shower and there's no change. As for seeing a dermatologist, you can see that, or course, most of us have, and many of us have seem more than one. They don't know the cause of, or the treatment for "acquired cutaneous adherence," as it's called.
March 19, 2013 - 5:03amThis Comment
Hello, I also have sticky skin and believe it is due to my extreme allergy to mold and spores. I moved to this area that often has thick fog, and returning from a long walk in the fog, I could not believe my sticky hands when damp after being in water. My hair has also become dull, dry and does not seem to respond to conditioning. I had stopped taking allergy medication when this started, and am now back on med, but still have the condition. If it is caused by my allergic reaction to mold,( researched condition online ) I wonder if being tested and having allergy shots would cure it. Does anyone else think mold could be the problem ?
January 21, 2013 - 4:08pmThis Comment
I'm finding it hard to return to this site because of having been consumed by this subject for so long (since April of 2011 for me) with no solution. I think it's in the water. My neighbors water is slightly sticky (not their bodies), but mine is much worse, both city water. The water in a neighboring town is not sticky. My towels are sticky. I've tested my towels, water, and neighbors water on various friends and have found these results. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm thinking it might be something in the water system. Doctors don't know. Plumbers don't know. I don't know. It's absolute hell. And it's not healthy.
January 21, 2013 - 9:50pmThis Comment
Why doesn't this site work correctly????????????????? Can't seem to get the last page that is most recent post. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
November 8, 2012 - 11:15pmThis Comment
For a year and a half I have dealt with stickiness of arms and legs only at night, sometimes sticking together so hard that when i pull them apart there is bruising. I sleep in pants and shirts with sleeves now, also under my breasts my skin will stick together, painful to pull apart. I was wondering about acid or alkaline levels in my skin,but then wondered about Paxil as I have taken it forever. I can lay down during the day with no sticking. wierd. have tried different diet changes. Have taken tylenol every day for awhile, maybe it helped, maybe it didn't, not sure. it never goes away. I have lived in the south, and spent up to a year up north-west, dry climate, still sticky no matter where I go. We have a well at home, and mold in the south of course, but no matter where I am it doesn't go away. Perhaps a strep infection that has turned up in my urine over the past year?? antibiotics do not stop the skin stickiness. I am realllly tired of it! :)
July 25, 2012 - 4:19pmThis Comment
to Lora from June 4, 2012
Thanks for the info about you sister.
I feel certain this is not due to any of our various health problems.
Do you or anyone else here have so called braided stainless steel piping. Some of the copper piping here was replaced with the "braided stainless steel" about 4 years ago. I looked it up and that type of flexible piping is lined with nylon and some other synthetic I don't recall at the moment. There was also a new plastic elbow put in here last fall after I left. I think some kind of mold or fungus grows in these non copper pipes. My sticky hands have elevated to a burning tongue over the past few days and that is just from dish and hand washing with the cold sticky, perfume smelling water.
This is horrible.
Good Luck!
July 20, 2012 - 4:21pmThis Comment
to clarify my comment above regarding winter rental baths: Once I had experienced a few summers of bladder trouble I was no longer able to take baths in the winter rental. I am still able to shower in the winter rental and there is no waxy skin from using the water in the winter rental or the other places I have showered since June.
July 10, 2012 - 3:27pmThis Comment
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