Does anyone else experience this?

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For some reason, when my hands get cold or dry after they have been wet, the skin becomes extremely sensitive and I can not rub my fingers or my finger tips together because it is so uncomfortable it is almost painful, but not quite. I really don't know how to describe how it feels other than to say "I hate it!" Also, when this happens, even certain materials that I normally like the feeling of make me miserable when I touch them or rub them with my fingers or hands.

When I'm really warm and my hands are really warm or have water on them, this is not a problem for me. I honestly have no idea what causes this and for pretty much all my life, I've kept this to myself mostly, so I do not know if anyone else experiences this same thing. I haven't been able to compare my experience to the experiences of other people. Does anyone else experience this or have any idea why I experience this? Could it possibly be a sensory issue related to an ASD?

I've never experienced that. It seems like some kind of sensory issue, but I don't know if that has something to do with ASD.

Not exactly that, but I have a weird issue concerning my hands: Sometimes the finger tips (seldom the palm itself) will suddenly swell up and get all red and itchy. The skin feels very hard and taut. It usually vanishes after a few minutes. I have no idea what causes this.

this happens to me too, and I hate it!

don't know about the OP, but sounds pretty annoying..

Sounds like what happens when I've been outside in the cold weather too long without gloves. Not sure where you live but cold here where I am gets to below freezing during the winter. Does this happen only when the water is very cold?

Though this does happen sometimes when I step out of the shower as I'm drying off I find it intolerably cold, like I stepped into an ice bath. That can feel painful at times. Probably because of the difference in temperature between the hot shower and cold air outside the shower. I get around this by not turning on the fan during the shower so the bathroom gets all steamy. It makes it far more tolerable.

It happens when it's only slightly cold, even sometimes at a comfortable temperature this happens. It's only when the skin on my hands is warm that it's no longer a problem, or when there is water on them.

My hands are always warm, no matter what I do to them. I'm usually warm, actually. I don't know why, but I guess I might be expelling a lot of body heat.

(Which is strange, because I should probably be feeling cold. )

I have Raynaud's Syndrome which means that my extremities are always freezing cold, then when I go into a hot room my hands get really painful. They tingle and I can't touch anything without being in immense pain. Not sure if this is what you meant?

Ya, I have experienced it. Many a times actually. After I wash my hands, cold weather, sometimes after I have touch a certain substance (I do not exactly know which ones though).

It's not painful though. But highly irritating!

My hands are always dry and after a wash them is when I get some relief.
It sounds like some hypersensitivity thing. Maybe when you wash your hands you can still feel the cold water.
I've had longer sensitivity too, but to smells and taste.

The reason for your dryness eludes me. Sometimes I don't like drying my hands to much on the towel because it brings that dryness back.

My hands get so dry they sting. I hate it.

BTW, love the avatar. Calling myself a Stargate fanatic is an understatement, punishable by death.

No, it's not like that. What happens is when my hands get cold, the skin becomes sensitive to almost everything I touch, but it's the worst when it comes in contact with my skin or someone else's skin. However, I have noticed that my hands can become cold, even in comfortable temperatures, while the rest of my body is not cold. But when I go into a hot room, it doesn't cause pain. When I go into a warm room, if I stay in that warm room long enough for my hands to warm up, the sensitivity problem seems to go away when they are warmed up.



Maybe what happens is the skin on my hands is just hypersensitive to the feeling of skin, not just mine, but other peoples' skin too. To be honest, I don't like the feeling of peoples' skin anywhere on me, but maybe when my hands are cold, it just make it worse. It could also be that having water on my hands kind of lubricates it somehow, so then contact with skin may not be a problem then.

Thanks for the comment on the avatar. Stargate is awesome! I don't know why, but Stargate doesn't interest me right now. It's just like all of my other interests I have(had). It comes and then goes and usually comes back again.

Ah OK, sorry I can't help then! (:

It's alright, but now I'm curious, what types of treatments do you use that help with Raynaud's Syndrome?

I have Raynaud's syndrome too and it has gotten a lot better a few years ago, when I started to do intense work out sessions a few times a week... I suppose being in great shape can help with many issues... My fingers, which are always cold, sometimes became and white and numb simply from drinking a large glass of water, not even iced, during summer! But then, after, when they warm up, they get really red, hot and very sensitive.

Edit : Now that I think about it, while my fingers are white, it's extremely unpleasant to touch anything, the sensation is very weird and I avoid it. Maybe that's what happens to your fingers when they are cold?

Well there's nothing much you can do except wear thick gloves and try to avoid huge temperature changes. My mum also gave me grapefruit extract which is supposed to help, but it tastes so disgusting that I rarely take it!

Well, what happens to mine is I think they are sensitive to the texture of skin, whether it's mine or others', but when my fingers get really cold, a lot of textures that I normally like the feeling of I am not able to touch or rub until my hands warm up. What is strange though is this sensitivity seems to dramatically decrease when my hands get really warm and I honestly don't know why. Mine don't get sensitive when they warm up, just when they are cold. What I do not understand is why an increase in temperature, my sensitivity seems to go away, but in comfortable or cold temperatures, I can't rub the sides of my fingers, my fingertips, or the palms of my hands together because the feeling is extremely irritating. When my hands are wet, the sensitivity fades until they become dry, and then it comes back and is extreme for a while.