Cracked painful lips, crusty nose.

[TheLadyIsAVamp]

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place or I should be posting in style and beauty.
For the past few years now, I've been experiencing painful cracked lips and a really flakey nose.

The lip is basically your standard chapped lips but with one huge crack in the middle which takes forever to heal and the crack opens if I open my mouth too wide.

I also have really flakey, sometimes painful skin at the sides of my nose. I can basically scrape clumps off of it which exposes red sores underneath. I've been using La Roche-Posay Lipikar Balm which does help but I'm not sure why this is happening as I do try and take care of my skin.

I have a fairly healthy diet, take vitamins and drink plenty of water. I do have long covid but don't think that's related. I'm 33 years old so I don't know if that's relevant. I have been avoiding wearing makeup etc and tried to stick to the bare minimum but nothing seems to be helping.

Any advice will be very gratefully received.

This sounds like something you should be going to see the doctor about. It doesn't sound like a change of skin care will be the solution.

@TheBitterBoy thank you, I think you are right. I also seem to have bruises, sometimes quite large angry looking ones appearing for no apparent reason. I've been putting it off but I have an appointment next week to check my thyroid medication so think I'll make further enquiries then. I do also suffer from severe anxiety and depression so never know if I'm just overthinking things.