Dry skin on hands, no sores?

[unbreakable]

Lately both me and my also HSV+ partner noticed a problem. No matter what kinda soap and lotion I use, the skin on my hands is really dry. No sores or anything. Just dry coarse skin. Like after you wash a lot of dishes by hand without a glove. Same for him. I wonder if it could be because of contact with the virus. We of course use our hands in foreplay. Or maybe it’s just the windy weather that came with spring? 

[blurneworder]

4 hours ago, unbreakable said:

Lately both me and my also HSV+ partner noticed a problem. No matter what kinda soap and lotion I use, the skin on my hands is really dry. No sores or anything. Just dry coarse skin. Like after you wash a lot of dishes by hand without a glove. Same for him. I wonder if it could be because of contact with the virus. We of course use our hands in foreplay. Or maybe it’s just the windy weather that came with spring? 

I have this same problem on my upper lip. I had the flu in September and soon after had a lot of burning and tingling, and then developed a bunch of tiny white bumps. To this day, only my upper lip stays continually chapped and cut. Nothing helps.

No positive test results, though.

[Joe Joe]

I was diagnosed with ghsv1 in January but I was able to pinpoint about the time I contracted it which was late December. 

 

Before i I even knew I had contracted hsv I went in to the dermatologist because my whole body was itchy from head to toe. He said it’s excema. I never had excema in my life and I feel like this has to be related to contracting the hsv unless a mere coincidence. 

 

After i I was diagnosed with hsv I seen a different derm and he said it’s probably because I stressed myself out from my diagnosis but I explained this happened before I even knew. The first derm gave me a cream which did not help. Neither of them know what’s going on and this itching has not stopped. Has woken me up many times in the middle of the night. I have tiny fluid filled blisters on my hands and feet. I looked it up and seams to match a certain type of dermatitis but this is so frustrating that I contracted hsv and have this problem. 

[blurneworder]

I've been told similar things - stress, it's in my head, it's general irritation.

I have itching in the genitals and anus on a daily basis, but no cremes or diagnosis has helped.

I've started to get really painful acne on my face that all come on in a large mass and show up in the same specific areas. Popping them leads to weeks of healing, and then a small scar. I get acne on my back now that does not feel or heal like anything I've had prior to having unprotected oral and vaginal sex.

[hope27]

On 4/5/2019 at 10:38 PM, unbreakable said:

Lately both me and my also HSV+ partner noticed a problem. No matter what kinda soap and lotion I use, the skin on my hands is really dry. No sores or anything. Just dry coarse skin. Like after you wash a lot of dishes by hand without a glove. Same for him. I wonder if it could be because of contact with the virus. We of course use our hands in foreplay. Or maybe it’s just the windy weather that came with spring? 

I am also noticing the same, both ny hands are looking so dry from today morning. Not sure what it is!