Baltimore Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
another medical q: allergic to my wedding ring?
I sometimes get eczema really bad on my hands, but this season it has been under control with the exception for my ring finger. I started thinking maybe I was allergic to gold, so I bought a silver band and was trying that for a little while, and it is actually worse. (Although I don't seem to have a problem with necklaces.) I am wondering if I am allergic or what could be causing my eczema symptoms just on my ring finger and the parts of the neighboring fingers that the ring touches. It got so bad I stopped wearing my rings a couple days ago, but now I feel totally naked/weird without them on. Has this happened to anyone? If so, what did you do?
Re: another medical q: allergic to my wedding ring?
Hi! I do not have eczema so my response may not help but have you ever had a nickel allergy before? I developed a severe nickel allergy and after multiple dermatology consults ultimately had to trade in my original engagement ring and wedding band (white gold) for a platinum set.
I can also wear earrings and necklaces with nickel, probably because they don't have such a direct contact with my skin for a prolonged period of time.
This, exactly. I can't wear any rings when I wash my hands, b/c even just a couple times of not removing my rings and therefore getting moisture trapped between my finger and ring is enough to cause a nasty eczema patch. The only way mine ever healed up when that occurred was to go a few days w/o my rings and use lots of cream/Aquaphor on it.
... every single day of forever.
Ditto PP's on the moisture thing.
Also an aside- more people are allergic to the composite metals (non-silver metals) blended into silver than the composite metals in gold. Sterling silver is 92.5% silver. 14k gold is only 58.3% gold.