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This appeared overnight. Meanwhile, I read that paper that someone linked with the Covid-related issue. I recently ended up in a hospital having pulmonary embolism related to Covid or vaccine, so after all that stress, this seems like sth immunity-related perhaps. Again, doctors just say it's nothing.
So here's an update in pics. I love this weird place.
Hey all! I’m so thankful for this thread because I know I’m not alone. Several doctors have no clue what’s happening. My orange stain started as streaks mid January and have continued on re-appearing 2-3x a week and “retreat” or lighten every few days before emerging again overnight. The pattern and intensity varies but it’s always on my right hand and starts in the “webbing” between my thumb and pointer finger. At one point it looked like it was dripping all the way down my forearm. Also, on one of the worst days, basically my whole thumb was orange (photo below) and it smells exactly like tanning cream! Like a burnt sugar smell. To echo many people on this thread, no I do not use tanning cream or use anything that would cause a stain. I don’t sleep walk. There are no stains in my bed or anywhere else on my body. I don’t use any creams or serums with vitamin c, no prescription drugs, no diet changes, no medication or supplement changes. It’s like it came out of nowhere. I had blood work done and results were nothing out of the ordinary except my vitamin D was really low.
The only thing I can think of is that I did touch a pine tree while I was foraging some pine needles a few days to a week (can’t recall time frame for sure) before it first appeared and maybe it’s fungal or something from the tree? But does fungus come and go like this?
I’ve looked at photos of tinea versicolor and other tinea fungal infections and it doesn’t look like what I’m experiencing.
I’m meeting with a rheumatologist in a few days so we will see if it’s autoimmune related. I’ll post any updates here.
Hey guys joining the gang here 😅26 F Woke up around 2 days ago with these stains on my hands, on the first day it was more on my left and not so much on the right and now it’s on the right which you can see here and completely gone from my left? Washing doesn’t help no matter what I use. I’ve felt really tired lately I think someone else mentioned a similar thing. I have had this exact thing before but not sure what’s caused it. I normally do eat a lot of tomatoes etc but lately not much at all. I have handled Amazon boxes though.
I had this in February 2016, long before Covid was a thing. Back then I couldn’t find anything online that fit my experience. I was pregnant and like most that have posted, the “stains” appeared overnight. Now, almost exactly 8 years later, my daughter (7YO) woke up with the same staining which is what brought me to this forum. I’m happy to find that others have experienced it and can connect here as it was lonely and a little scary when I had it. I do believe it was food related, but unclear on if it was from handling or eating it. I had eaten (and obviously handled) peppers and lemons. I remember that distinctly. And another detail is that I had gestational diabetes which could speak to the liver and pancreas not functioning properly and causing the reaction. Anyway- another vote for food consumption or handling and just some type of reaction based on stress your body is going through at the time, or just some kind of random mineral processing disfunction… ?? Or aliens. Maybe easiest to just blame aliens. Not telling my 7YO that theory though. 
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