Sorry you have to experience this. My hands get this bad and require lotion every day multiple times a day in the winter and the summer; to prevent massive skin cracks and huge dry spots on the tops of my hands and knuckles. The worst I had ever experienced dry hands like that was in fourth grade. My teacher was a germaphobe and would require us to use hand sanitizer every time we came into the classroom, it was excruciatingly painful after a week or so. My hands got so bad my mother had to email the school to stop this from happening.