Both my son and I developed these stains on our hands and feet. He’s 22 and works a lot I hardly see him. My husband did not developed these. I work from home and haven’t left my house in days. We don’t even eat the same foods and my son rarely eats veggies. We have separate bathrooms and separate bath products. I made a doctors appointment what should I be asking for besides a blood test.
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Hello everyone. I'm 23, male and from Brazil. I woke up today with this thing and i have no clue as to what it is. My case seems a little different from the majority here.
My orange/yellow patches showed up on my arm and close to my chest, next to my armpit.
I remember waking up in my new apartment (first night sleeping there) in the morning, still half asleep, and feeling this spot itch a little, very lightly. I also remeber feeling a little insect on my hand and trowing it away. This didnt bother me that much and i fell asleep again.
I woke up and just then noticed the marks.
From what i gather from the internet, this might be related to my high cholesterol, (from my latest exams, i miiight have hypercholesterolemia
Maybe the insect was just a coincidence.
And i also dont recall eating red/orange vegetables. I mean, i always eat my salads, tomatoes and ocasionally a little bit of carrots, but not in a huge ammount.
Hi! Another person here who has woken up looking like they’ve had a self-tanning disaster. I was interested to see the post that mentioned hypothyroidism; I’ve had thyroid illness for many years but never experienced such bad staining as this! It is so weird to wake up like this, I wonder why it doesn’t appear during the day.
I woke up recently with some orange, rust-colored stains on my left hand — both on the palm and the back — and I was going to just ignore it. Later that day during my regular massage therapy, my therapist noticed that my skin was extremely sensitive and turning very red, so she stopped and asked if I was feeling okay or if I’d been unwell.
That combination — the strange discoloration and the sudden hypersensitivity — made me think something might be off. When I looked it up, I found that an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) can sometimes cause skin sensitivity, and I also read that iron deposits from liver issues can create rusty discoloration.
I also came across an article about hypothyroidism and rust-colored stains on the skin, which really caught my attention — I can share the link here in case it helps anyone else who’s noticed something similar. www.getlabtest.com/news/post/hypothyroidism-rust-colored-stains
I’ve decided to get some blood tests done and will update here once I know more. Honestly, if my therapist hadn’t pointed it out, I probably would have brushed off those orange spots completely.
I just hope I can push my doctor to take this seriously and really help me find an answer — not just send me away like what I’ve read some others have experienced.
Hello, fellow freaks!
I think my last post was a year or two ago - and it happened again. During stressful times. So I guess it probably correlates with that. Nothing unusual with the food lately, so that's out.
It started as a tiny spot, but today, when it got more stressful due to a book deadline, now it's hello-orangeness-my-old-friend.
Do you all take vitamin D supplements? Or are exposed to the sun alot? Someone online said it was a vitamin D overdose. I was taking a high dose because of seasonal depression and I woke up with the marks on my hands. They disappeared in about 3 days. I'm trying to find a commonality because I don't spray tan or eat many carrots...
It's a real honour to join your illustrious club.
36F, woke up this morning thinking I must have cut myself, but the stains are rust-coloured and don't wash off. It's on both palms and also deeply staining my nailbeds on one hand. I went to a doctor because...I was weirded out, and he didn't have any real suggestions apart from maybe somebody played a prank with the spray bottle at my gym. I'm perplexed, to say the least.
Good luck out there, everyone.
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