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Butterfly rash on face

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help please.  I'm in my very late 30s now and for the last few years I've had brown marks appearing on my face. I'm fairly dark, black hair, brown eyes and olive skinned anyway but these marks are very dark and blotchy. They aren't red or raised, and I don't really suffer with acne. I'm not on the contraceptive pill.

It is very bad over my eyebrows and cheekbones, and also over my nose and upper lip and slightly over my chin. Makeup doesn't cover it at all.  I use high sunblock but it is worse in the sun. I avoid the sun whenever possible, mainly because I feel awful in sunny weather and get a headache.  I've had midwifes ask if I'm pregnant because they say it looks like the rash you get in pregnancy, but it nearly disappeared during my two pregnancies.  I've also had two separate people approach me in the street and ask if I have Lupus! So I looked up lupus and the photos of the lupus rash looked a lot redder and angrier.  

I have other health problems, juvenile pernicious anaemia, early onset general osteoarthritis, suspected psoriatic arthritis (without the psoriasis), chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, elhers danlos (hypermobility) and an undiagnosed bone change in my foot. I've posted a question on the undiagnosed board about my foot.

I've spoken to several different GPs about it, and they all said they have no idea what it is.  Its starting to really bother me now and I'm consious of people staring at the rash when they talk to me.

I feel ill all the time and nobody know what is wrong with me, I sleep 10-12 hours a night and 3 hours in the afternoon and I'm still exhausted.  

Any ideas?
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Have you been checked for auto-immune disorders such as Lupus?
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Interesting-parasites maybe because they can undermind an immune system overall.  I don't know how much of your health problems are genetically related, but it sounds like your immune system could use some major support in general.  Try a holistic dr.-doctor of osteopathy-their take on caring for the body can be more user friendly than typical allopathic drs.-although sometimes the best approach is to combine both approaches as long as each dr. from the different approaches knows what is going in the other camp.
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Pardon? Please explain, I don't understand the link between a dark rash on my face and parasites.  How would I get these diagnosed? How would they be treated? What part of my question made you think of parasites?
Thanks for thinking outside the box, even if you shocked me!
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ever consider parasites?
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