anyone have any idea at all what this is all about?

[kibskix]

for about a month, maybe more, I've had really bizzare things going on with my skin. I've never had any problems with my skin at all (aside from being pale ) its always been pretty normal, not dry, not greasy, hardly any acne as a kid, etc...and I can't figure out what the deal is. Its starting to really annoy me.

*After I got out of the shower, I was drying off my arms, and my skin just started coming off. I don't mean like slasher film, but the more I rubbed with the towl the more it came off, like damp dandruff. It was on the tops of my hands too. But it always goes away about an hour after I dry off.

*A few days later, My legs started doing it too. It makes drying off feel disgusting because I don't feel clean. Ever since my legs started doing it too, after a shower my calves itch like -crazy-. But my skin isn't DRY, its just... coming off. Even the slightest pressure with one finger leaves a steak of little white dandruff balls along my skin.

*I tried changing soap, I tried changing my loofah, I tried scrubbing till i thought i might bleed, i've changed the water temp, I tried lotion after lotion and all THAT did was make the skin that came off when i rubbed on the lotion all stick together into clumps. nothing changed. I tried using dandruff shampoos on my skin, no effect. I thought it was my towns water, but it happens at the bf's house too, and he lives 3 towns away.

*now i've noticed it on my sternum and a little on my stomach, and the palms of my hands and the bottoms of my feet now are dry looking which has never happened before in my life, but still none of the rest of my skin is dry at all.

*an interesting and maybe inrelated thing started the same time. After I get out of the shower, the whites of my fingernails get see-through, with little white spots (not the white spots on the bed of the nail, white spots on the tips). Its sort of weird, but it goes back to normal after about an hour. i spent years biting my nails so if this is normal just ignore me, i figured i'd include it just in case.

*its driving me nuts. I hate showering now, and all anyone tells me is 'scrub harder'. Unless they want me to take -all- my skin off, I can't! I've heard it sounds similar to aquagenic pruritis(skin allergy to water that makes your skin itch uncontrollably), but in everything i've tried to find online i havent heard of that causing the skin coming off. It only happens when my skin is wet, when dry it looks and feels perfectly normal, and -is not dry-. the itching drives me nuts sometimes, i'm afraid i might cut myself with my nails when it gets really bad, but i try to ignore it, cause if i never scratch, it never gets unbearable.

can aaaaaaaaaanyone give me aaaaaany clue as to whats going on here?? It might also be worth it to know I had a staph infection last month and took antibiotics for 10 days, which i got off of yesterday. I dont really think its related though.

[blondegypsy]

I think I'd get some really good vitamins and check with your doctor about the side effects of you antibiotic, tell him whats going on.

Man the side effects on this stuff is crazy. I went to the dentist and got an antibiotic, hadn't taken one in years and I got a yeast infection that was very unpleasant! The med I had to take for that wasn't much better and I happend to be on a business trip! Talk about bad timing! Hard to be professional squirming around with that going on!

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