Have a new worry this week! Luckily it isn't a huge one, for once. Maybe it'll go away on its own. My husbands hands and feet are cracking pretty badly with extremely dry skin. Looks like he's covered in paper cuts on his hands and feet, although those areas are not being radiated (just the mouth/face, of course.) His skin is usually super oily, but not during all this radiation. He's walking with a limp now due to an extremely deep dry skin cut on his heel.

He puts on lotion 2x a day MINIMUM. He likes aveeno since it's been gifted at the cancer center- now he buys only aveeno-- aveeno soap, aveeno colloidal oatmeat bath packets, aveeno shaving gel-- aveeno aveeno aveeno!

He's drinking a lot of water but every day his skin gets more dry and cracked and painful.

Is this common & how long does it take after radiation for this symptom to go away? His doctor told us what he's doing now is fine and to wait it out, but it's driving him nuts. Which drives me nuts. The deepness and the number of cuts look very painful.