Posted by Dinah on October 30, 2010, at 11:38:10
This past couple of weeks I was under incredible pressure at work to meet a deadline, including very little sleep this past week. I was tense and anxious.
The sides of my fingers on my right hand were so dry that they were cracking. My fingertips and palm were lined and wrinkled. I was noticing that, and thinking that age was starting to catch up with me. I put cream on my finger now and again, but mostly forgot.
The deadline was met yesterday and it was high on my to do list this morning to get aggressive about using cream.
Lo and behold, my fingertips and palms are back to their usual plump and pink condition. The cracks are no longer open and healing seems rapid. All between last night and this morning.
I know I'd been hydrating adequately during the period of stress. I was really careful about that. In fact, I was up to the bathroom several times last night as I apparently shed all the fluids I had stored up during that two week period.
Does anyone know what it is that stress does to skin? Or what it does to fluid retention, for that matter?
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