I finally figured out how to take a picture of the mysterious roaming rash that has no known rhyme or reason to any aspect of it… that I can find, anyhow.
Wanna see? Its not gross. Its just a bumpy rash. Which itches like absolute hell if I don’t notice it immediately and douse it with triamcinolone acetonide cream (whatever the heck that stuff is!!).
Anyhow – if you remember a couple posts back, the nurse practitioner I see asked me to try taking a photo of the rash so she could see it when its inflamed, or whatever it is. Of course, I finally get the photo on a weekend.
Oh well. I’ll see about stopping by the office on Monday. Hopefully there will be no charge to show her a picture! Maybe I’ll call and see if I can email it… sending an email shouldn’t cost any money, right?!
Rash photo = below the fold.
This is already coated with the creme, so that’s why it looks shiny. It pops up anywhere, anytime. Sometimes in two spots, sometimes only one. Some days I go without, some days I’m bathing in creme. Sometimes, if I don’t catch it in time and am mindlessly scratching at it, I will scratch it so hard it makes an open sore. (I’ll definitely never be a hand model now!)
Maybe, with this photo, someone will know what it is and how to make it stop.
You’ve probably already thought about the following but it’s worth mentioning anyway.
Have you recently switched laundry detergent, soap, shampoo or other personal care products? If so, switch back to your old products & see if the rash goes away for good.
If not, you could try switching to hypo-allergenic versions of the above.
Does this tend to show up in times of stress–which I realize is a lot of the time, but maybe more stressful times than others?
Man, just looking at that picture makes ME want to scratch. SERIOUS sympathy to you.
Could it be hives?
Owie…I have super sensitive skin and that looks to me like what I get if I use the wrong detergent. I know vicki already said that but the old “your body chemistry changes every seven years thing” could help explain if you haven’t recently changed…?
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After emailing a photo to my wonderful nurse practitioner, she’s decided that I have idiopathic urtucaria – which, in lame men’s terms is ‘unexplainable hives’, basically. She suggested Zyrtec, if the $4 RX program covered it. If not, over the counter generic benedryl should work too. So, I bought some fake benedryl today. I’ll start it tonight, hopefully with amazing results.
It’s just aliens, dude. Chill.
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LOL Karen!!!!
Yay for FINALLY getting a diagnosis! Fake benedryl WORKS. I have allergies and take 1/2 pill in the morning and 2 pills at night, and I’m fine (plus it helps me sleep, too).
Went to the dermatologist yesterday btw and he said those spots of mine were nothing to worry about, but he froze them off anyways to make ME feel better about it.
I’ve had something that looked like that and so has the baby. They said it was probably from laundry detergent, or perhaps a different body soap.
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