RED flushed skin (anyone have this symptom)

[mum2four]

One of the symptoms I have been dealing with has been red flushed skin which is hot and makes me want to scratch a lot. For about 6 mth at least people keep making comments about me being sun burnt when I'm not. The redness ranges from mild and barly a bother to compleatly red and very hot to the point of needing to have the aircon on even if was cold and my partner and kids would be freezzing while I still felt hot.

Since going on Ivabradine I'm not so hot and the itching and scratching has gone better. The aircon has been off most of the time my family is warm again. I'm even getting cold some day's lol.

I'm wondering if anyone has ever had a simular symptom???????????????????

I'm not sure if this is due to poor oxygen getting circulated threw my body or what, I'd love some susjestion?????

I have wondered if my lungs are working proberly as an EX ambulance officer told me that normally red limbs are more a sign of lung problems. I'm sure my lungs are fine but it's in the back of my mind. I was also told that when you heart beats to fast(tachy) the body can some times struggle to get oxygen around the body properly as the heart can struggle to pump out all the blood and this means that the heart is not as effective as when it's slower and able to pump all the blood out of the chamber's.

[mum2four]

The redness is more like flushing like you get after exercise. I have wondered if it because I dont seem to sweat to cool down properly. Since being on ivabradine I have noticed that I seem to sweat a little better. If I think back to when I use to walk years ago I use to feel to the air moving over my skin cooling my skin as the sweat was produced to cool my body. But now even on cold day specially before I started on Ivabradine I struggled to feel cool my body was producing so much heat that even a cool breeze did not feel cool enough. I was constantly fanning my self to cool my self enough to reduce the feeling of passing out from feeling to hot. Yet when I've checked my body temp my digital ear thermomater read's 35 degree's celeious and full degree lower then the adverage body temp. I have told a Dr this and they brushed me off saying there are plenty of reason for a lower reading.

Just a thought that came to me then I wonder if that's why I get so hot my body temp is low and my brain might be sending out signals to my body to get it to warm up??????????????????

I have know idea why this would be happening thoe.

OR why being on Ivabradine might be helping this symptom some what.

thanks for the imput.

[mum2four]

thank you for you nice comment.

[jondsam]

My neighbor has red skins like you mentioned and she has Lupus.  Just a thought?

[mum2four]

Thank you for you good susjestion.

No I've never had any test done to directly figure out why I get so red(flushed). My Dr's even keeps comenting on me sunburnt and when I tell her I'm not she looks confused or like she does not beleave me.

As far as the itching its not allergy, as least as far a rash type allergy. I scratch because I'm OCD and one of my biggest triggers is heat and well as over thinking. I've hated being hot since I was a kid I started scratching hot spots on my body when I was kid. when my feet use to get hot in inclosed shoes, it drove me nut's and by the time I got home from school I was screaming inside(my thoughts), I'd take my shoes off and scratch like crazy one day I did it so bad that I made my self bleed. The scratching compulsion got worse when I was pregnant and living with my controlling sister at age 22y I did not even know it was OCD untill I was 27y when I was put on fluvoximine melate and the compulstion got easier to controll and stop with in 3 days. It got so bad before the meds that my partner had hold my hands while I tried to get to sleep I would scratch in my sleep as I woke up plenty of times in pain from scratching and I would even cause bleeding. In fact what I thought was exema on my tummy near my c-section scar was really caused by scratching cause once I had better control over the scratching compulstion my tummy healed for the first time in 5y years. I only took about 4 weeks for my tummy to heal fully. It was a amazing and I had not even told the Dr about the scratching behaviour because I thought I was insane and he's tell me I was being crazy and just stop scratching. When I did tell him he resopnded so different to what I thought and got more confidance to start talking about what I now know to my OCD thoughts.

I'm booked in for an echo on june 10th. I'm a little scared as being undressed in public is one of my fears, jusy thinking about makes me anxious. I try to forget it about it and dont let my self imagine the day or i'd be in a state panic and talk my self out of it. I was taken advantage off at 16y ofter drinking alcohole for the first time eva. I remember some images of trying to stop the guy and thoughts of saying NO but I dont know if it said no out loud or loud enough. Anyway my OCD makes me feel like undressing any where for anyone is cheating and make me a bad person. I should proberly talk to my phycologist about this but I'm avoiding it. I cant even make my self go have a paps smear. If my partner trys to tell me I need one I freak and tell him to back off. If a Dr tells I need one I avoid that Dr specially if there female, you'd think the fear would be more with males but its with females as female Dr dont offically need a nurse in the room during pap smears. My OCD thought about go nuts big time as well.


Anyway a 45 min ultrasound of my chest with it exposed I just want to hide, run away, magicly make the anxiety better, but I cant I need answers so I'm reminding my self that I must have got the tachycardia for a reason and maybe it was to face fears like this. This is not the first fear I've had to face to get answers as to why I feel so exausted when I stand up.

sorry if I ramble

[ireneo]

Another thought may be erythromelalgia - a disorder that causes vasosdilation of the extremities. It's kind of in reverse of Raynauds which I have, a form of vasospasms. In my case my hands and feet turn white, bluish gray and get extremely cold. In erythromelalgia the blood vessels open way up and the skin turns hot and red.

You can read up on it, see if that's a possibility and then ask your doctor.

[is_something_wrong]

Hello,

When you're in tachycardia, your cardiac output is usually increased, not decreased. However, this can cause flushing.

It's possible to get tachycardia due to a low stroke volume, but in this case, you get tachycardia to compensate, the tachycardia usually does not cause a low cardiac output if the heart rate is not extremely high (>200).

Have you done an echocardiography lately?

Other (rare) causes can be pheochromocytoma or other endocrine problems. Maybe a doctor should measure your cathecolamines when you are flushing?

Just some suggestions here, you've probably done all those tests.

If the red body parts are itching too, I'm thinking more of allergy (but you are probably tested for this as well..) If you are, and you are using allergy meds, remember some of them are likely to cause tachycardia :)