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Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 57
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 1:32 pm: | 
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Hey anybody out there who either knows what it is or has had it before. I developed a rash out of nowhere on my inner thighs and inner arms. Hot, red, slightly itchy but feels more like a burn. I also have had a cold and slightly sore throat.
Bajou |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2469
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 1:39 pm: |
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Sounds like Karma
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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5835
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 1:43 pm: |
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I've got this rash very badly and I am headed to the emergency room at Overlook because no doctors are available today. Wish me luck! |
Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 59
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 1:50 pm: |
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Hey Rasto:
Maybe you stroked my face and I got allergic..just kidding.
Bajou |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12681
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 2:37 pm: |
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You're going to die
but not of the eczema.
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campbell29
Citizen
Username: Campbell29
Post Number: 361
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 2:49 pm: |
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Sounds like Eczema to me too. My baby gets it quite badly at times and nothing seems to help. If anyone knows a cure - please pass it on. |
Greeneyes
Citizen
Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 751
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 2:51 pm: |
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If you have a rash following a sore throat, you should be evaluated by a doc.
Mem and Bajou have the same rash...hmmmm...
Let us know how you guys are doing. |
Brett Weir
Citizen
Username: Brett_weir
Post Number: 1289
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 2:55 pm: |
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Sounds like either razor burn, or Athlete's Face (highly contagious)... |
The Libertarian
Citizen
Username: Local_1_crew
Post Number: 1619
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 3:25 pm: |
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looking for love in all the wrong places |
aquaman
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Username: Aquaman
Post Number: 753
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 3:47 pm: |
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Mem,
Does your rash look anything like this?
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mickey
Citizen
Username: Mickey
Post Number: 408
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 4:03 pm: |
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Have you been taking medication? I got a rash after a course of amoxicillin; turns out I am allergic.
Hope it clears up soon. |
CageyD
Citizen
Username: Cageyd
Post Number: 623
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 4:16 pm: |
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It could be an allergy. My spouse has been dealing with a similar problem behind the knees. Try some allergy medicine espeically if you have cold like symptoms |
Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 60
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 4:22 pm: |
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Hello:
First thank you to all the helpful people and secondly:
Tom R: Yes I am going to die you are boring me to death
Greeneyes: Thanks for the nice reply and by the way MEM and I ...well you know LOL
Brett: I have stopped shaving ages ago..u guys are just not worth the effort..LOL
Libertarian: Now you are telling me...I knew I shouldn't have gone out with you
Love y'all
Bajou |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5837
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 5:36 pm: |
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I skipped the emergency room because I managed to get an appt with my dermotologist tomorrow. I don't want to sit there for five hours.
Here's my story:
A few weeks ago the same thing except the rash was only on my neck and chest. Doc thought spider bite that I was allergic too, or scratched and got an infection.
The rash reappeared this weekend, starting on the back of my legs and crooks of elbows and it looks like I have bad burns. Yesterday, my neck and chest started and now it's full fledged again - what the heck is this? |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 946
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 5:54 pm: |
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Are you taking high dosages of Vitamin A by any chance? Years ago, I took double the daily recommended dosage in a megavitamin for a week or two, and I developed a rash - it would occasionally be on my arms, sometimes my legs, sometimes my chest.
No one knew what was causing it until an elderly lady who was into preventative medicine told me about the possible Vitamin A reaction. I stopped taking the vitamin and the rash disappeared.
The body can't store excess A, and it can cause skin reactions.
Hope you feel better soon. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 6825
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 6:44 pm: |
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A few years back, I had an unexplained, sudden rash. At the time, we had a strange dog in the house, so I assumed it was fleas. The rash was on my chest. Imagine how much fun I had describing my splotchy breasts to the exterminator over the phone.....
Anyway, he told me that it didn't sound like fleas, so I went to the derma. Turns out that I had an uncommon rash called "something rosea". It tends to pop up under stress. Sometimes it is an ongoing, painful problem, other times a one-shot or occassional deal.
It went away on its own (extreme cases can use cortisone cream) in about 10 days and I haven't had it since.
Could be that's what you are dealing with. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5838
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 8:00 pm: |
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Cody - I just checked my vitamin - it has 200% daily value for viatamin A - would that do it?
Greenetree - Do you remember the rash I had at the martini party? I don't think that was a stress rash, and I have a couple of prescription creams from my regular Dr, but nothing works. Claritin eases it a bit, so I suspect it's some kind of allergic reaction.
Hopefully I'll find out tomorrow. Thanks all. |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2283
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 8:08 pm: |
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It's top secret govt. testing of biological warfare, have you had any strange black helicopters flying overhead recently? |
millie amoresano
Citizen
Username: Millieamoresano
Post Number: 271
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 8:57 pm: |
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Mem if it's what we had it's viral. My oldest daughter got it on friday and it lasted a few days. youngest got it on saturday and was gone by tuesday. I got it on sunday and still have it. We were in florida for 2 weeks and when we came home my oldest got it. I called the doctor on Saturday thinking it was type of allergice reaction I was told to give benadryl and calamine lotion. Now my friends daughter has it also 4 classmates. My friend caled her pediatrician and was told that it is viral and it is going around.Her doctor also told her to take Benadryl and Calamine lotion. If it's what we have it should last about 3-4 days. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12688
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 9:23 pm: |
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greenetree, I had that. It was alarming looking, but it was not at all the worst rash I had. Dermatitis (poison ivy) is much worse for me. It's called Pityriasis rosea. It starts as one big splotch somewhere on the torso, and you get smaller elsewhere. It was summer, and the doctor told me to go barechested as much as possible. I only had one occasion when I could, and I looked pretty gruesome, but tough luck to the public.
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cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 947
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 9:27 pm: |
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mem - that's about the dosage I was taking when I had my Vitamin A rash. It would feel hot, as if the skin were being stretched under the red areas, as I recall.
I've had pityriasis rosea, too. I also heard it could be triggered by stress, or a previous viral infection of some sort. Mine was small splotches on my torso and arms. Not contagious, self-limiting, looks worse than it is. I remember my doctor laughing and saying it sounded like a character in Gilbert & Sullivan's "Mikado". |
Greeneyes
Citizen
Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 753
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 9:36 pm: |
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Tom,
I had Pityriasis rosea the summer of my 17th year. The rash started the week school ended and left the week school started. That was not my best summer ever! |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 6826
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 6:54 am: |
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Tom - that's weird. My doctor did not say anything about going bare-chested...
Meme- good luck today & let us know. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5839
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 3:13 pm: |
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OK, so I am back from the Dr and it is definitely contact dermititis. Something new that I am in contact with recently has built up in my body and is freaking my skin out. Next step is a patch test if I need to determine what it is. Meanwhile I have a prescription for triamcindrome (sp?) to put on twice a day and will use vaseline at night and aveeno during the day.
Sheesh. |
fiche
Citizen
Username: Fiche
Post Number: 81
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 3:15 pm: |
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Bayou: Have you had chicken pox? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12702
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 3:30 pm: |
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mem, you have my deep sympathy. It's awful. I had it a few years ago for a few weeks. It's much worse when the weather is hot. For a while, I wore bandages to keep people from brushing up against me and also to keep tiny breezes off my skin. I kept my office door closed to keep people away, because even walking near me bothered me. I couldn't sleep, either.
Try cool baths.
And consider demanding some steroid. It works. I had to plead with my doctors to get it. They didn't understand my suffering.
Now isn't it funny that pityriasis rosea is fairly rare, but many of us here have had it?
I find it fascinating that there are so many skin disorders (and I've had a few) and doctors can identify them so readily by sight. To my eyes, they look very similar.
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Valley_girl
Citizen
Username: Valley_girl
Post Number: 119
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 6:05 pm: |
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Could it be shellfish and alcohol? That does it for me, sometimes. |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 953
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 6:24 pm: |
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Just mentioning that when I had my Vitamin A rash, 2 different doctors were convinced it was due to my laundry detergent. It wasn't.
Hope whatever is causing your problem eases off so you can be more comfortable! |
Ace789nj
Citizen
Username: Ace789nj
Post Number: 290
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 10:46 pm: |
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Brett: I have stopped shaving ages ago..u guys are just not worth the effort..LOL
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Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 64
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 2:07 pm: |
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Hi Ace789 NJ:
When did you take my picture!
Bajou |
Ace789nj
Citizen
Username: Ace789nj
Post Number: 292
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 5:02 pm: |
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I would tell.....but I'm deathly afraid of the Karma |
Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 68
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 5:21 pm: |
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Don't worry about the Karma...worry about me.. |
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