A guy with’sandpaper’ hands has said that after using buckets of ointments and lotions, he is still in severe discomfort and his hands ‘burn’.
Tyler has previously seen four physicians and is now seeking the assistance of Dr Pimple Popper for his cracked, rough hands with cuts and slashes all over them.
Dr Sandra Lee has seen it all, from a grandad living trapped ‘like a hermit’ in his house because he’s too ’embarrassed’ by his plum-sized nose to a man with a burst cyst smelling like ‘death’ and looking like’scrambled eggs’.
Tyler is in such much pain in this episode that he wants to sever his own hands.
He explains: ‘So this is a bin of all of my creams and ointments that I’ve had over the years.
‘In the last two years, I’ve seen four doctors.’
However, he was told it was ‘just dry skin’ and was given pills for ‘what they thought could be causing it.’
Tyler brings out buckets of creams and lotions, as well as hundreds of pairs of rubber gloves, as he proceeds to describe his ailment.
‘I go through over a hundred rubber gloves a week.
‘The gloves were meant to protect against outside bacteria, but just the sweat caused infections in my skin.’
Tyler then applies moisturiser, something he can’t accomplish with his right hand because of the discomfort.
‘Normally, I’ll do two pumps, just with them being so dry I have to work it in slowly.
‘It also burns quite a bit through the cut. It’s really painful.’
He continues: ‘I go through three 80 ounce bottles of lotion a week and nothing to any avail.
‘Any time I go to the doctor, it’s like what cream will they give me this time? What’s not going to work?
‘It just feels like everything is a waste of time.’
This comes after Tyler expressed his desire to sever his own hands due to his pain.
‘My hands feel like 80-grit sandpaper,’ he began.
‘The smaller cuts feel like paper cuts and then when I’ve got these bigger ones, they feel like actual knife cuts.
‘I can’t fully shut my hands without my skin just completely cracking and splitting.
‘It’s hard to do simple tasks, opening a drink, going to the bathroom, driving, using silverware.’
The footage transitions between views of his rough skin’s wounds and splits to him using his teeth to open a plastic bottle, unable to use his hands due to discomfort.
He continues: ‘They don’t ever stop hurting.
‘The pain is so excruciating that I feel like i would rather cut my hands off than have them for another second.’
Dr Pimple Popper airs on TLC in America.