Had a rough few days, deadline Monday, then my mom’s hospital appointment Wednesday, and by Thursday the skin around my knuckles was cracked again for no reason I can point to.
Usually when I flare I can trace it back to something, a new soap, the weather turning, whatever changed. This time nothing changed except I’ve been running on maybe 5 hours of sleep for 4 days straight, and eating whenever I remember to (a granola bar at 3pm counts as lunch some days).
Does stress and lack of sleep usually catch up with your skin right away, or is there normally a gap before it shows?