What causes wrinkled finger tips all the time?

[chrissybill]

I am a 27 yr old female and i have noticed that the skin on my fingertips is wrinkled all the time(like i just got out of the bath).  I noticed it several weeks age.  I don't think i am dehydrated.  I put lotion on everynight and have for many years.  What could be causing them to stay wrinkled?

[Eshrimpski]

I've been on several different SSRI's. Before I had the wrinkled finger tips, for several weeks I've had these little bumps on my fingers with some kind of clear pus in them...I'm currently taking Celexa...

[amber82390]

I am 21 years old and the first week in june i noticed one of my fingers had this pruning after i had been out drinking the night before. this eventually has spread to all my fingers along with peeling on my palms when i touch my fingers it doesn't feel normal any more. I though dehydration could be a problem but when I talked to a Dr they said it couldn't be. I also thought it could be from the chemicals at work but I now have not been working with chemicals for over a month still same problem plus i get little random bumps and now today have noticed blood under the skin in 2 of my fingers I have had a heart condition since 15 so it really freaks me out and if a Dr could comment that would be great.

[BlueOcean1]

I just noticed this a few months ago myself and I am also 27. Sometimes it is there and sometimes not. I notice that the wrinkles are most prevalent when I am dehydrated...I try to drink a lot of liquids everyday, but if I am busy at work or out and about and it slips my mind, I have noticed a few times times this is when I see them most. So I am assuming that dehydration must be it or at least a leading factor. I have not had any other symptoms but the slight wrinkles in my fingertips. This was an odd thing that I never really experienced before and or at least not that I had noticed until recently...my behaviors have not drastically changed or anything either. I just started looking for answers myself and came across this. Good luck all...

[smoothfingersamen]

hi all, i found this thread as i too have noticed prune like fingers at the tips but also at the front of my hands going down the fingers from the nails. They feel like ive been soaking in the bath for ages although i may not have had much contact with water. They are slightly dry but not extensively and are NOT cracked and painful. But look wrinkly, im female and only 26 with generally really good skin, i drink water daily and exercise and eat quite healthy recently like some others i too have cut down on unhealthy food and lost a few pounds. I do wonder why my fingers are shriveling :(

[Woodlot_Manager]

Interesting and very long thread - a bit frustrating for a slow reader like me but interesting nonetheless. Yes I have all the same symptoms. Started a year ago with small and painful splits and wrinkles brought on by what I thought was from weeding the garden with bare hands, usually in the mornings when the plants are wet. I thought I might have picked up a fungus or something. Live a healthy life, no medical issues, take omega 3 and saw palmetto supplements, 60 yr. male. Exposure to water seemed to definitely exacerbate the wrinkling. Bag Balm worked marvelously to heal the splits but never got rid of it. Diaper rash ointment (zinc oxide) seemed to work a bit but it turns the skin around my gold wedding ring black. Tried changing my diet by stopping certain foods like tea, coffee, vitamins but all to no effect.

My sister claimed she had it and it stopped when she and her family went on a gluten free diet for her daughter who has celiac disease. While camping in damp weather I it got real bad. Didn't have have cold hands though. I tried a gazillion different things and finally what worked best so far - at times almost perfect hands is: first to disinfect your hands with hand sanitizer. Then apply O'Keeffe's Working Hands cream available at TSC in Canada and possibly Tractor Supply Co. in USA. Also available from Lee Valley Tools by mail order. And I then sprinkle on extra strength Gold Bond power (zinc oxide 5% and menthol 0.8%). I do this definitely before going to bed and in the morning all looks great. Badger Balm also works but not quite as well and smells nice. So based on this the topical disease ie fungus or bacteria might be an explanation also.

I think that it also could be symptomatic of emotional stress in general. I know that the tingling is a symptom of that for sure. My stress levels have been high lately, ie I have also been getting panic attacks lately which is very weird. So I should change my lifestyle and remove stressors from my life. I'll also try a gluten free diet. I will also start watching the BPA -- Bisphenol A used to make hard plastics -- contact and will try the Burt's Bees Soap. Saw that at Lee Valley too. Thanks for the info guys.

If I find anything else useful I will gladly share.

[bmcerlai]

I'm much older than you (male in my 50's), but also stopped drinking coffee and have the wrinkled fingertips and also sometimes painful cracks at the fingertip, by the fingernail.  May have to visit the Dr's office to see where that takes me.