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Itchy Skin, Rash, Bruising
Hello-
Recently I developed these little bumps on my body that are incredibly itchy. The first one I noticed was on my wrist and it looked like a little bug bite. I got this when I was on vacation in Maui and I thought it was just a bug bite because it was itchy. When I came home I started to get these bumps on the top and inside of my thighs. They have been so itchy that it keeps me up at night and I can't sleep. First they look like little red bumps, almost like pimples or bug bites, then it develops into a red splotchy rash. Then it bruises, I guess from me itching so much. I have a huge purple bruise on the top of my right thigh and one is starting to develop on the inside of my left thigh. Now I have the itchy red bumps on my wrist and hand, my arms, my foot, my stomach, and a few on my buttocks. They are scattered and small so it's not very noticeable but it is so annoying and I'm starting to worry. I have never had any allergies or anything like this before. I'm not sure if it's just because my skin is really dry or the change from one extreme climate to the next- I was in Maui for a week where it was obviously very warm and then I got home to the midwest where it was freezing. Right when I got home from the trip is when this problem started to happen. I do have a doctor's appointment in a week but it's been so frustrating I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions- Thanks!!
Recently I developed these little bumps on my body that are incredibly itchy. The first one I noticed was on my wrist and it looked like a little bug bite. I got this when I was on vacation in Maui and I thought it was just a bug bite because it was itchy. When I came home I started to get these bumps on the top and inside of my thighs. They have been so itchy that it keeps me up at night and I can't sleep. First they look like little red bumps, almost like pimples or bug bites, then it develops into a red splotchy rash. Then it bruises, I guess from me itching so much. I have a huge purple bruise on the top of my right thigh and one is starting to develop on the inside of my left thigh. Now I have the itchy red bumps on my wrist and hand, my arms, my foot, my stomach, and a few on my buttocks. They are scattered and small so it's not very noticeable but it is so annoying and I'm starting to worry. I have never had any allergies or anything like this before. I'm not sure if it's just because my skin is really dry or the change from one extreme climate to the next- I was in Maui for a week where it was obviously very warm and then I got home to the midwest where it was freezing. Right when I got home from the trip is when this problem started to happen. I do have a doctor's appointment in a week but it's been so frustrating I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions- Thanks!!
I'm having the same problem
It started on my inner thighs. They appear as red bumps at first then it turned to a red rash then it later turned to a rash with a bruise/black/purple in the middle.
It then spread on my belly then my buttocks and then my back and now my neck!
I hope this is nothing too serious
I hope we find a cure for this
It started on my inner thighs. They appear as red bumps at first then it turned to a red rash then it later turned to a rash with a bruise/black/purple in the middle.
It then spread on my belly then my buttocks and then my back and now my neck!
I hope this is nothing too serious
I hope we find a cure for this
I have had itchy red bumps on my arms and legs. I tried everything. They soon turned to bruises and scars.
I had flannel sheets that I changed to a more smoother sheet and that helped. I also heard about CeraVe Moisturizing Cream. When I am done taking a shower I spread this all over my still wet skin. It is on the thick side so I have to have plenty of time to let it dry.
I can tell you after a week I was feeling much better. The itching is gone and my scars are healing. I do not pretend to think this will help everyone...but maybe it will help someone that has similar issues to me.
I had flannel sheets that I changed to a more smoother sheet and that helped. I also heard about CeraVe Moisturizing Cream. When I am done taking a shower I spread this all over my still wet skin. It is on the thick side so I have to have plenty of time to let it dry.
I can tell you after a week I was feeling much better. The itching is gone and my scars are healing. I do not pretend to think this will help everyone...but maybe it will help someone that has similar issues to me.
First I sympathize with you and your wife as I am going through something similar with my daughter but the one thing I noticed from yours and my daughter is that both had one thing in common and that is it all started after moving in to a new home. My daughters home was built in the 1900 and is oil heat, it has everything from the original build. No changes to the home was ever done.
With my daughter they just hospitalized her last night because they feel she may have Lupus but I am more inclined to believe that it has something to do with the house. Can you tell me when your house was built and if the house has many of its original structures, heating system etc.. I am trying to get to the bottom of this because it is destroying her life and the doctors were grabbing at straws when they made this diagnosis because they couldn't figure out anything else. I truly feel it is something more obvious and less serious but we are not seeing it.
With my daughter they just hospitalized her last night because they feel she may have Lupus but I am more inclined to believe that it has something to do with the house. Can you tell me when your house was built and if the house has many of its original structures, heating system etc.. I am trying to get to the bottom of this because it is destroying her life and the doctors were grabbing at straws when they made this diagnosis because they couldn't figure out anything else. I truly feel it is something more obvious and less serious but we are not seeing it.
I'm sending this to those already suffering with this horrible condition (dare I say, disease?).
My wife is Korean, and has had this crippling condition for over 5 years. I hope that this information in some way can bring comfort to those listed and offer evidence to doctors that might read this.
Let me preface this by saying that when we married, my wife came down with atopic dermatitis, with a strawberry rash all across her chest, she was given steroids for many months until it went away, and we thought that was the end of it...this was over 26 years ago.
About 5 years ago in early summer, after moving into our new home in the dairy belt of Pennsylvania, my wife was working in her garden; this was the second year that we had one, a small plot next to the house. The next day she had developed multiple itchy rashes along her left arm, which resembled poison ivy. I took her to a doctor and they agreed it was either poison oak or ivy, which they prescribed creams for, and we hoped they would go away. However, the itching persisted, and spread to her upper arm, leaving silver dollar sized weeping sores.
This condition continued to spread to her legs; she resembled a leper. Now, I realize you are thinking this sounds nothing like the condition I have, but stay with me, it does. My wife was given a massive steroid shot, and after a few weeks the condition resolved. She was symptom-free throughout the fall and winter, however, with the warm weather in the spring this returned, again, after she was working outside in her garden. Again, she was prescribed a steroid shot, and like the previous year, this went away by late summer. But, as a caution, I had her tested at an allergy clinic, which gave her a standard scratch test, the results of which were inconclusive.
Another season passed, and like clockwork, in the spring of the third year, the condition came back, at this point, I decided to take her to the Penn State Hershey Dermatology department. Here she was subjected to a biopsy and several blood tests, all of which were, again, inconclusive. She was told she had Atopic Dermatitis, and was given steroid creams. With the change of seasons, we expected this to go into hiding as it did the years prior, but it lingered late into the early winter, and then appeared to recede.
In spring this came back again, by this point I'd had it with the doctors at Penn State Hershey, and moved her to the prestigious John's Hopkins Department of Dermatology; surely they could find a cure. They ran her through a battery of tests, and determined she had dermatographia. Despite the colloidal oatmeal baths and various steroid creams, nothing helped. All during this time the condition seemed to evolve from one form to another. Her body was now covered with these red "pimples" that were constantly itching.
A few points to note here, is that when this reoccurs, the sores appear in exactly the same pots on both sides of her body; there is a bi-lateral symmetry to them: Right forearm, left forearm, upper right thigh, upper left thigh, bottom of left sole, bottom of right sole, back upper center of left thigh, and so on. In addition to these larger recurring locations, he now had multiple tiny red bumps scattered throughout her body. After several months and another year, John's Hopkins also failed to find a solution.
By now I was desperate, she was losing weight, and could no longer sleep; her constant itching resulted in red open wounds, and the sores on her thighs noe had large bruises around them. The sore on her left forearm was weeping and had a red bumpy ring extending about 1 inches around the circumference.
I had read about a place near Washington DC that specialized in rare dermatological conditions; the MedStar Washington Hospital Department of Dermatology, so I decided to move her from John's Hopkins to there. They immediately ran what is called a patch test, to determine what her skin reacts to. The results were interesting; mostly perfumes and formaldehyde, which, unfortunately, are found in almost all chemical soaps, cleaners and cosmetic products. We cleaned house, and pulled all those items which were suspect. Additionally, the dermatologist put her on massive doses of antihistimines; cetrizine HCL, Hydroxyzine HCL, Levocetrizine Dihydrochloride and Doxipine. Added to this were a slew of topical creams to include; Fluocinonide Gel, Fluocinonide cream, Pimecrolimus cream, Clotrimazole cream, Halcinonide cream and Triamcinolone Acetonide cream.
These seemed to help for a while, but she was a zombie due to the drowsy side-effects. I had done some studies on the internet and found that many got relief from a new injectable drug called Xolair. it took several months for the doctor to warm to the idea, but we eventually put her on this. she received two injections every month. Remember, she was still taking the massive doses of antihistimes during this. The results were not instantaneous, this medication must build in the system before it does any good. After 3 months it looked like it was working, her spots were lessening, but I knew all those meds were doing terrible things to her body chemistry.
Desperate times call for desperate measures; by now I was grabbing at straws, I could not just stand by while she suffered. We decided that Western medicine was not working, so I took her to a prominent Asian medicine specialist in Maryland. He took the approach that all the chemicals were affecting her and that they needed to be purged. He put her on a decoction of herbal roots, barks, and nuts, that were boiled into a tea, and placed into small individual packets; she was to drink one twice per day, for three weeks, and stop taking all the pills and creams. Additionally, he performed several acupuncture treatments.
Now, say what you will, but we saw results immediately. All the sores dried up, the red spots started turning light brown, and the itching subsided. Remember, she was still taking her Xolair injections during this, but she was off all the pills. At this point I though she was cured, but three months later the spots began to return. They were very small, and red, but not really itching. However, after another month, they had spread to most of her body, just like before. another point here is that they have never appeared on her face, or the palms of her hands, but they show up everywhere else. Again, the large sore returned to her left forearm, as it always did, as well as the upper back of the thighs, the upper inner thighs and the soles of her feet, with much smaller spots throughout her body.
We are entering the sixth year of her condition, and nothing can kill it. We went back to the Korean doctor, but even the herbal teas and acupuncture treatments are working now, it just takes the edge off of it. throughout all of this, I have also vacuumed the mattress, and sterilized the sheets, just in case she is sensitive to dust mites, and I have bought air cleaning machines. I'm having the air quality tested in our home for molds and spores, as well as formaldehyde gasses; we'll see what that turns up. but at this point, after 5 years and 7 months of Xolair treatments, we are back to square one.
I pray regularly, as I am a Christian, in hopes that someday soon, someone will find out what this condition.
My wife is Korean, and has had this crippling condition for over 5 years. I hope that this information in some way can bring comfort to those listed and offer evidence to doctors that might read this.
Let me preface this by saying that when we married, my wife came down with atopic dermatitis, with a strawberry rash all across her chest, she was given steroids for many months until it went away, and we thought that was the end of it...this was over 26 years ago.
About 5 years ago in early summer, after moving into our new home in the dairy belt of Pennsylvania, my wife was working in her garden; this was the second year that we had one, a small plot next to the house. The next day she had developed multiple itchy rashes along her left arm, which resembled poison ivy. I took her to a doctor and they agreed it was either poison oak or ivy, which they prescribed creams for, and we hoped they would go away. However, the itching persisted, and spread to her upper arm, leaving silver dollar sized weeping sores.
This condition continued to spread to her legs; she resembled a leper. Now, I realize you are thinking this sounds nothing like the condition I have, but stay with me, it does. My wife was given a massive steroid shot, and after a few weeks the condition resolved. She was symptom-free throughout the fall and winter, however, with the warm weather in the spring this returned, again, after she was working outside in her garden. Again, she was prescribed a steroid shot, and like the previous year, this went away by late summer. But, as a caution, I had her tested at an allergy clinic, which gave her a standard scratch test, the results of which were inconclusive.
Another season passed, and like clockwork, in the spring of the third year, the condition came back, at this point, I decided to take her to the Penn State Hershey Dermatology department. Here she was subjected to a biopsy and several blood tests, all of which were, again, inconclusive. She was told she had Atopic Dermatitis, and was given steroid creams. With the change of seasons, we expected this to go into hiding as it did the years prior, but it lingered late into the early winter, and then appeared to recede.
In spring this came back again, by this point I'd had it with the doctors at Penn State Hershey, and moved her to the prestigious John's Hopkins Department of Dermatology; surely they could find a cure. They ran her through a battery of tests, and determined she had dermatographia. Despite the colloidal oatmeal baths and various steroid creams, nothing helped. All during this time the condition seemed to evolve from one form to another. Her body was now covered with these red "pimples" that were constantly itching.
A few points to note here, is that when this reoccurs, the sores appear in exactly the same pots on both sides of her body; there is a bi-lateral symmetry to them: Right forearm, left forearm, upper right thigh, upper left thigh, bottom of left sole, bottom of right sole, back upper center of left thigh, and so on. In addition to these larger recurring locations, he now had multiple tiny red bumps scattered throughout her body. After several months and another year, John's Hopkins also failed to find a solution.
By now I was desperate, she was losing weight, and could no longer sleep; her constant itching resulted in red open wounds, and the sores on her thighs noe had large bruises around them. The sore on her left forearm was weeping and had a red bumpy ring extending about 1 inches around the circumference.
I had read about a place near Washington DC that specialized in rare dermatological conditions; the MedStar Washington Hospital Department of Dermatology, so I decided to move her from John's Hopkins to there. They immediately ran what is called a patch test, to determine what her skin reacts to. The results were interesting; mostly perfumes and formaldehyde, which, unfortunately, are found in almost all chemical soaps, cleaners and cosmetic products. We cleaned house, and pulled all those items which were suspect. Additionally, the dermatologist put her on massive doses of antihistimines; cetrizine HCL, Hydroxyzine HCL, Levocetrizine Dihydrochloride and Doxipine. Added to this were a slew of topical creams to include; Fluocinonide Gel, Fluocinonide cream, Pimecrolimus cream, Clotrimazole cream, Halcinonide cream and Triamcinolone Acetonide cream.
These seemed to help for a while, but she was a zombie due to the drowsy side-effects. I had done some studies on the internet and found that many got relief from a new injectable drug called Xolair. it took several months for the doctor to warm to the idea, but we eventually put her on this. she received two injections every month. Remember, she was still taking the massive doses of antihistimes during this. The results were not instantaneous, this medication must build in the system before it does any good. After 3 months it looked like it was working, her spots were lessening, but I knew all those meds were doing terrible things to her body chemistry.
Desperate times call for desperate measures; by now I was grabbing at straws, I could not just stand by while she suffered. We decided that Western medicine was not working, so I took her to a prominent Asian medicine specialist in Maryland. He took the approach that all the chemicals were affecting her and that they needed to be purged. He put her on a decoction of herbal roots, barks, and nuts, that were boiled into a tea, and placed into small individual packets; she was to drink one twice per day, for three weeks, and stop taking all the pills and creams. Additionally, he performed several acupuncture treatments.
Now, say what you will, but we saw results immediately. All the sores dried up, the red spots started turning light brown, and the itching subsided. Remember, she was still taking her Xolair injections during this, but she was off all the pills. At this point I though she was cured, but three months later the spots began to return. They were very small, and red, but not really itching. However, after another month, they had spread to most of her body, just like before. another point here is that they have never appeared on her face, or the palms of her hands, but they show up everywhere else. Again, the large sore returned to her left forearm, as it always did, as well as the upper back of the thighs, the upper inner thighs and the soles of her feet, with much smaller spots throughout her body.
We are entering the sixth year of her condition, and nothing can kill it. We went back to the Korean doctor, but even the herbal teas and acupuncture treatments are working now, it just takes the edge off of it. throughout all of this, I have also vacuumed the mattress, and sterilized the sheets, just in case she is sensitive to dust mites, and I have bought air cleaning machines. I'm having the air quality tested in our home for molds and spores, as well as formaldehyde gasses; we'll see what that turns up. but at this point, after 5 years and 7 months of Xolair treatments, we are back to square one.
I pray regularly, as I am a Christian, in hopes that someday soon, someone will find out what this condition.
I to have come out with the same rash and bruises, I live in England so it as nothing to do with the change of climate, it's cold here. Not been to the doctor yet but I am taking a lot of med's after having a car crash, my husband thinks that it might be down to them. I will let you know what they say at the doctors.
Best wishes Jane.
Best wishes Jane.
With all due respect to all persons who have these symptoms, .. Can you tell me your age?
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