Thin skinned??

Hi Lynda, I'm having a mix of what others have mentioned. Crepe paper skin, that has a hint of transparency. Any of the petechial hemorrhages from, say carrying a loop-handled plastic grocery bag, that may slip on my skin will leave these hemorrhages sometimes the merge and form a blob under my skin. When they finally heal, it leaves a darkened brownish-tan area. If my skin is abraided, and bleeds thru, I use an antibiotic ointment, and bandage with a non-stick pad, using paper tape, which doesn't pull on my skin to remove and redress. Wetting the paper tape easily releases the adhesive. My forearms kinda look like a 90 year olds with crepe skin and bruises.

I use skin cream (Gold Bond for Eczema several times a day). Most of my pinpoint hemorrhages heal up in a week or 10 days, the larger ones can take up to three weeks to turn brownish-tan and a couple months for that to dissappear, sort of.

I hope you don't get this sensitivity to bumps and abrasions! (((Hugz)))

My skin has become papery thin and bruises easily—I have bruises and marks everywhere, very noticeable.  When I started pred 2 years ago and my skin started to change, I asked my doc about whether it would recover when I got off the pred. He said no, other side effects would reset (like hair loss for example) but not skin.  

Both my doctor and nurse say I have got thin skin. The symptoms I have is continuous bruises, particularly arms and legs, even hands, skin can get torn just touching things, purpura and recently I have had blisters forming from some of the worse bruises. For these I need to go to the surgery to get them dressed.