justbecauseicannotseeit
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Hello! So, I have been having quite a bit of hair/skin/nails problems lately and was just wondering if any one else on here has experienced similar issues, or if it's even CF-related at all. I'm 19 and have cystic fibrosis, and have always had rather sensitive skin. I can't really use anything on my face that isn't all natural, and scented soaps and lotions irritate my skin badly. I've had keratosis pilaris on my arms for years, and what some doctors have dubbed as "nail psoriasis" (my finger nails go through cycles where they get all these little spots/divots in them - the best way I can explain it is that they look like the surface of a thimble). The skin around my eyelids and hair line used to peel and scab over back when my vitamin levels were super low, but they've been stable for a while now, and yet I'm having similar problems again. I wouldn't classify what's happening on my scalp as dandruff, exactly - it's more just... red and itchy? I get these spots that scab over sometimes, and the other day I was scratching a particularly irritating spot and it started to bleed. The backs of my hands and wrists are dry and cracked, and lotion just irritates it more.
Aside from the weird skin, my hair has also seemed extremely...greasy, lately? I know that my skin has always gotten oily easily, and that it probably has something to do with the excess sweating/salt. But this is usually more of a problem for me in the summer, and I can't understand why it's so bad right now. If I go even a day without showering, my hair gets so oily it looks wet and I start breaking out almost immediately. But lately it has reached a point where I feel like my hair is almost always like that. My hair used to be really thick and curly and fluffy to the point where it annoyed the hell out of me, but now I kind of miss it? Weird.
TO BE A BIT MORE CONCISE, does any one else have really dry skin or oily hair, or have any advice on how to maybe fix it? Sorry for the long explanation.
Aside from the weird skin, my hair has also seemed extremely...greasy, lately? I know that my skin has always gotten oily easily, and that it probably has something to do with the excess sweating/salt. But this is usually more of a problem for me in the summer, and I can't understand why it's so bad right now. If I go even a day without showering, my hair gets so oily it looks wet and I start breaking out almost immediately. But lately it has reached a point where I feel like my hair is almost always like that. My hair used to be really thick and curly and fluffy to the point where it annoyed the hell out of me, but now I kind of miss it? Weird.
TO BE A BIT MORE CONCISE, does any one else have really dry skin or oily hair, or have any advice on how to maybe fix it? Sorry for the long explanation.