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Does this sound like lupus?

Hi, I don't know where to start. Pls don't be annoyed with me, I just feel as if my life is over. I'm hoping I can get help from here. I've been so scared, depressed and anxious for a few weeks now that it's affecting most aspects of my life. I first, I had a sudden scare that I may have HIV. But after researching, it seems I may have lupus.
Here's what's going on with me:
About a month ago, I had a sudden red "lesion" (for lack of better term) right below my color bone. It was about 1mm and pinkish. It looked like an allergic reaction.  Then everyday after that, I notice a few more scattered on my abdominal area and and one on my lower back. These ones were the same color as my skin. These lesions only itched when I touched them and they never hurt. All these lesions came right after an ezcema came on my back. I've had excema before. 2 days after I NOTICED the 1st pink lesion, I had a sharp pain like a thick needle in my right deltoid area. The sharpness subsided a few days later and became a tingling feeling. Next, I began to have tingling feelings in my arms and legs, then mostly in my palms and soles of feet. My palms get very itchy that it turns red. This tingling becomes a little itchy all over, but not a hysterical itch. I get intermitted sensations as if I'm being poked with a needle and I have to rub it because it hurts and itches. This is all over my body including my face, jaw, neck, arms, legs, thighs and chest.  All this is within the past month. Now, I feel like something is crawling on me and I have to keep brushing it off. I feel like something is crawling on my head or as if hair is on my face. I also noticed that I keep  getting yeast infections. It feels like I always have a yeast infection and now, what seems like cluster headaches. I was scared and my dr. ordered a cbc, tsh, liver and lipid panel. Everything came back normal except my wbc, which in my opinion has significantly gone down from what it was 1.5yrs ago. I have no fever or butterfly rash. Ever since I was a kid, I get a sudden heat wave and an intense itch with frustration or stress, for example, if I'm looking for something and I get frustrated I get hot and start itching for a few seconds. This has been a hot and humid summer in the midwest, so when I step outside, the tingling seems to get a little worse and I get more itchy. Pls let me know if this seems like lupus. I'm not sure if I'm too young to have it (I'm 21 now). I'm just scared that it would be something worse like Hiv. thanks!
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723488 tn?1278339300
I also have developed the Petechiae/ Purpura on my skin as well and Dr's can't explain it. I heard it's usually either pregnancy or Autoimmune related. . . fingers crossed. (and hope you feel better soon as well) I know how you feel. . . for me 6 months is a long time to be so ill.
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723488 tn?1278339300
Hi, Im a penny too!   Im on my way (finally ) to a Rheumatologist for MS, Lupus etc screenings now. I have been having crazy symptoms for 6 months now and im getting worse. At this point i too feel like my life is over and that dr's etc think im nuts, lol. It all started with I passed out and hit the floor out of nowhere one night Feb 1, 2010. I thought i had flu or something and stayed in bed for weekend with gingerale and crackers. . . it never went away. I became extremely exhausted and fatigued, muscle pains, cramps, body tremors here and there, joint pain, "woozy" feelings almost everyday as if i was gonna pass out again. I feel faint quite often. I went to Dr and he checked for everything and said he couldnt find anything wrong. I moved back to NY (was in FL for a yr and a half) and went to a new Dr who tested all the same things but also added ANA (neg) i guess and also Lyme screening -that one was high (poss) but then he did the western blot and it was negative. My mother has MS and was diagnosed at age 32. . . . Im now 33 yrs old and so scared about having it myself. He sending me to Rheumatologist Aug 18th to see what he can find and i'll be back on here after appt to report what happens. Hope to keep in touch with ya.
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Hi you posted on my question so I will post on yours. I know exactly how you feel. I swear you and me are exactly alike in how we think. When I started to have all of these symptoms I put them in on google and saw Lupus and MS and HIV pop up too. I was soooooooo scared about that not for me but for my boyfriend I love him alot and it wouldnt have been his fault because he wasnt the first guy I have been with. So I went to a OBGYN and got a pap test and a HIV+ STD test and luckily they came back negative. But while waiting for the result I was an insane person always crying and worried and just a nervous wreck. When I got the results back it took a huge weight off my shoulders but then my problems/symptoms were still there. So then I ofcourse started freaking out over MS but I went to a neurologist and he did an office exam or office test and said he was sure I did not have that. So now im stressing over Lyme Disease. I am kind of sure I have this. I am actually hoping I have this (LD) stupid I know. But im just tired of feeling scared all the time, crazy, and now very depressed. I just want to go back to normal. You say your WBC is irregular well thats a sign of Lyme Disease I believe. And the arthiritis or carpel tunell I think is too. You should really get tested for LD but go to a LLMD not a regular doctor cause I went to one and asked for a Lyme test and he basically laughed in my face and said all of my problems were in my head. Hes an ******* though :)
But yeah usually all day I feel like my life is over too and like I will never get better but im just takin it one day at a time. Im really scared too tho and always end up freaking myself out. haha But keeping busy usually helps alot. But my thoughts are always racing now . Do you ever feel like the hairs on your head stand up? Idk but thats been happening to me for the last 3 months now its really weird lol


I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER :)

Cali
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as if it isn't long enough, but I wanted to add (to also reduce my anxiety about hiv) that I've had lots of pain that felt like arthritis (even before I ever had sex) and recently got diagnosed with carpel tunnel, tenosynovitis, and I think (tenitis). All on my non-dominant hand, I can't think of how I would gotten these on my non-dominant hand.
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