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Hot, aged and veiny hands

Hi, I am female in my mid twenties and I have very unsightly hands. They look 70 years old. The skin is very wrinkled and I have big knuckles. Sometimes, my hands will be very hot for no reason and the veins will be bulging. It's to the point where if I leave my arms down, it feels like incredible discomfort. I am tired of living in constant humiliation. Trying to hide them all the time. I quit my serving job because I couldn't deal with people staring. Summer is always tough for me because I have to hide my hands. This has taken a major toll on my mental health such as being the root cause of my panic attacks. I so desperately need answers. I've never seems hands like these, especially on a young girl. My anxiety over my hands had hindered a lot of things for me. Does anyone else have this? It happens in my feet but not as much. My fingers swell and my joints hurt sometimes. There is a vein that is starting to pop out in  calf. It's never going to end and I feel like a monster. .
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See your dr, these days things have come a long day. I too am not proud of my hands but then I am old I should have used sun screen on then because my face has perfect skin no wrinkles at all because I took good care of it and forgot about my hands. Mia in Miami
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