Thumb calluses from vaping -- or am I allergic?

[chellie]

Hey all -- years back I wrote because I had developed a painful callus on my thumb. I'm not a wuss and it really hurt! At the time I was using a Kanger subtank box. Some of you had experienced calluses too and I figured it was the price of vaping and I started using my other hand and it went away,

I stopped using the subbox a few years back and use 3 boxes daily - all much wider and a just a little taller than the subbox. Never developed another callus.

About a week to 10 days ago I wanted to try yet another rta tank that I never used so I pulled out the subbox and now 10 days later a friggin painful callus so it is definitely the subbox. I think because it is fairly compact it fits in my hand and I guess it must be the way I am holding it. I had used a nano box for a few years and that never happened. Just the subbox and it is the chrome one --I almost wonder if I am allergic to it or something.

Too bad because I do like it - I even have a brand new white one that I wanted to break out for summer but -- back in the stash it goes.

Has anyone ever had any allergies or callus' because of a box?

 

[r77r7r]

Only little indentations from darn eGo buttons, lol. But I hear you! Latest box and the only 1 I've ever ordered xtras of has a fat curved button and can be squeezed or pushed either way no real stress on my fingers. Evic Primo Fit. Been one of my priorities upon choosing a mod.

 

[tdman77]

I had a small 18350 mech mod that caused a callus on the inside of my ring finger from the way I had to hold it to press the button on the bottom. Ended up giving to a friend who liked it more than I did.

 

[chellie]

Only little indentations from darn eGo buttons, lol. But I hear you! Latest box and the only 1 I've ever ordered xtras of has a fat curved button and can be squeezed or pushed either way no real stress on my fingers. Evic Primo Fit. Been one of my priorities upon choosing a mod.

That a nice looking mod. I just do not like the built-in batteries. I rarely go over 30 watts so there are a lot of choices. I vape a lot so I carry extra 18650 batteries with me and I never have any down time.

 

[bombastinator]

Hey all -- years back I wrote because I had developed a painful callus on my thumb. I'm not a wuss and it really hurt! At the time I was using a Kanger subtank box. Some of you had experienced calluses too and I figured it was the price of vaping and I started using my other hand and it went away,

I stopped using the subbox a few years back and use 3 boxes daily - all much wider and a just a little taller than the subbox. Never developed another callus.

About a week to 10 days ago I wanted to try yet another rta tank that I never used so I pulled out the subbox and now 10 days later a friggin painful callus so it is definitely the subbox. I think because it is fairly compact it fits in my hand and I guess it must be the way I am holding it. I had used a nano box for a few years and that never happened. Just the subbox and it is the chrome one --I almost wonder if I am allergic to it or something.

Too bad because I do like it - I even have a brand new white one that I wanted to break out for summer but -- back in the stash it goes.

Has anyone ever had any allergies or callus' because of a box?

You can get clauses from anything repetitive that abrades skin. I got and popped a blister in a single afternoon today with a badly designed ice chopper. Many musical instruments can’t even be played correctly until clauses develop.

In the mean time maybe all you need is one of these

 

[chellie]

You can get clauses from anything repetitive that abrades skin. I got and popped a blister in a single afternoon today with a badly designed ice chopper. Many musical instruments can’t even be played correctly until clauses develop.

In the mean time maybe all you need is one of these
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You know you read my mind -- I swear I was just thinking that. Must have been sending vape signals ---I do have them. It is just a real pain when I switch out the batteries because I have to take off the cover-- and I thought because it was rounded it should not bother me. I have them in all colors --lol - thank-you fast tech. I will try one before retiring it again.

 

[brewbear]

Maybe you just need another mod! VaporFi V-Grip 75 TC MOD
After all, we all need more mods, don't we?

 

[bombastinator]

You know you read my mind -- I swear I was just thinking that. Must have been sending vape signals ---I do have them. It is just a real pain when I switch out the batteries because I have to take off the cover-- and I thought because it was rounded it should not bother me. I have them in all colors --lol - thank-you fast tech. I will try one before retiring it again.

Yeah. If I put a mod in a silicone case I treat it as a sealed battery mod and charge it from the port. To this end I generally use a magnetic USB cord

 

[SupplyDaddy]

Quit pressing the button so hard... and rub some VG on that callus.. it is a skin softener....

 

[stols001]

I have to admit, when I read the title I thought this was another "vaping makes me ill in some way" joke post.

I have not noticed calluses ever, and I should have them I chainvape. Multiple setups, but still....

Of course, I'm used to calluses, I have gotten them from playing the violin. For a while there, I was practicing 8 hours a day... I got no advice because I WANTED my calluses and tried to nurture them because just like everything body wise, they would shed every once in a while and rebuilding them SUCKED.

VG sounds like a reasonable idea though plus the rest of the advice.

Anna

 

[Falconeer]

I've never had this with vaping - but as has been said certain musical instruments both cause and need them. I have three good electric guitars ( one with modern Jumbo frets ) and one, coming up for vintage Spanish guitar, and know this well! Even the nylon strung Spanish one, made by a reputable small luthier in Malaga, does produce calluses to a degree if I play it enough.

I've had some vape devices with hard to push buttons, but the worst they produced was a painful finger end - would something like the stick on things for the feet of furniture cut down help I wonder, or even trying glueing on some rubber to the button ... and here I admit to thinking out of the box, maybe even just bumping my gums!

 

[Vapemesilly]

I'm still unsure if this is for real or if you are pulling our legs, so....

Option 1 - For Real - Don't hit the button so hard and get an easier device to operate.

Option 2 - Leg Pull - I have vapors elbow.

 

[DaveP]

I tend to rotate between thumb and pointer finger when I vape. I just turn it around and switch back and forth. The thumb is more likely to get sore after a while. Fingers, not so much.

 

[r77r7r]

I tend to rotate between thumb and pointer finger when I vape. I just turn it around and switch back and forth. The thumb is more likely to get sore after a while. Fingers, not so much.

But, but you're an avid guitarist...

 

[Diver9543]

Maybe it is just me, however, I have never had a callus hurt. I have had blisters hurt. Are you by chance confusing a blister with a callus? I'm not a medical doctor or any kind of medical specialist. I would recommend talking to your primary care physician if a callus is painful. It doesn't sound normal to me.

 

[Shadav]

I remember my old ego buttons would leave circular indents in my thumb and they would callus over sometimes
I am so glad that the button styles have been redesigned from an actual button to more of a trigger style

 

[chellie]

It was a callus - almost gone. It is not from pushing the button. It is (was) more of at the base of my thumb palm side. I vape all the time and have numerous setups and it is only the chrome subbox that does it. I laughed at some of the replies - thanks all. And I'm ambidextrous so I do vape with both hands and sometimes I have button thumb side, sometimes not. I think because it is a smaller device and it fits completely in my hand that it must be the way I am holding it that it is resting between my thumb and pointing finger.

I have a silicone cover but did not try it -- I put it back away

In a few weeks when the weather is even hotter than it is now I will break out the new white one and start off using the cover.

If it happens again - I will give them away....lol

 

[puffon]

A callus is better than having yellow tobacco stained fingers...

 

[chellie]

A callus is better than having yellow tobacco stained fingers...

Very true. I smoked packs per day and never had yellow stained fingers -- ick. I was (am) kind of prissy and sometimes used a cigarette holder but most of the time held it normally.

 

[Falconeer]

If all else fails, pick the core out with your figernail, ping it across the room, ideally bouncing it of something like the wardrobe while shouting "Geronimo!" and see how far you can get it to go, stick your ex calloused digit into some surgical sprits to harden it up while consuming a very large Scotch - works every time for me!