WTF is this? Dr Google has no answers. PHOTOS!!

[mawbroon]

I woke up with these rust colour marks all over my hands.

I haven't eaten anything different to normal and I haven't touched anything out of the ordinary.

I went to sleep and they were there when I woke up. How????

Hair dye or fake tan. Were you cleaning out the bathroom cupboards yesterday ?

Looks like henna staining. It's not coming from within you, it's been on something you have held.

Even weirder. I had a dream that I felt ill and my hands had lost all their colour 😲

I've never used fake tan or henna, so no.

Shoe polish?

That's a stain of some sort, not a rash.
Have you touched wood that's been stained with wet hands?

What happens if you wash your hands 👐

That looks like iodine.

Are you pregnant?

You are not alone
www.google.com/search?q=Rust+colored+brown+stains+on+hands+overnight&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB744GB744&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjd5tTy4qn1AhWjMewKHTk2CwEQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1218&bih=649&dpr=1.5

The obvious answer is staining. However, a Google search shows that there are other people who have had the exact same thing happen where they have woken up with discoloured hands exactly like mine.

I have not touched anything that could cause this.

www.patientcareonline.com/view/discoloration-palm-wont-wash

Could be this?

Thank you, postdatedpandemic. That's exactly what I found too when I Googled. I'm definitely not pregnant but I am perimenopausal.

However, some of the cases online seem to be men which rules out pregnancy/menopause as a cause

Some random covid symptom?

Sorry OP nothing to add except how weirdly fascinating this is. I hope you find the (benign) cause soon.

Actually have you used any new cleaning products lately?

Have you ever sleep walked? It looks like staining not pigmentation.

It seems to have crept down the creases in your palm.

Any hair dye, henna, self tan, bronzing gel?

I had this staining on my hands after using Fabulosa spray. Couldn't figure it out for ages until I used it again. Have you used fabulosa disinfectant spray recently?

Fascias, given that it's mostly found in tropical regions and I haven't touched any soil recently I very much doubt it's that. But thank you 😊

Do you have any lillies? Could be lily pollen staining?

No lillies. No Fabulosa

If you rub a damp cloth or kitchen towel over it, does the staining come off at all?

Olivia Bond, I'm doing a LFT just in case...

Assumed you would have googled and come to the same unsatisfactory conclusions.

It does look like a contact stain with something dampish, just the way it has collected in the crease.

The obvious suspect is one of you DC has left something somewhere and it got you. Did you do something mundane like check the door was locked before bedtime and relocate a stray pear core to the bin?

The answer is likely to be rather boring

Stigmata. The pope is likely going to want to meet you.

I found this on Google www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/chromhidrosis#symptoms but I agree that it looks like staining rather than skin colour changes.

My immediate thought was dried blood - was it easy to wash off?

No idea OP, but a couple of months ago I suddenly (like in the space of half an hour) developed yellow/brown stains on some but not all of my fingernails, which wouldn't wash off. Some nails only the tip was affected so I could cut it off, others went to about half-way down so I'm waiting for the stains to grow out.