Strange non-itchy Rashes

[roamingrover]

hi, am 23 yr male.
I have developed Rashes all over my body bar my face, feet,palm& abdomen.
it started a week back, slowly started spreading. I went to the local cling, they asked me to use a FUDIC cream, but the cream have hardly made any difference. with every passing the no. of rashes in my body increases.
they are not painful or itchy & they are not accompanied with fever.
They are not stacked up together but are well spread, but appears everywhere. some looks like red bumps.
there is no pus coming out of the rashes neither are they sticky.
am worried, could it be  a complicated skin problem. please suggest.
any help will be highly appreciated.
cheers
Roy

[roamingrover]

Really appreciate er response mate.

My rashes are slowly responding to the drugs prescribed by my doctor (which is a good thing)
am 10 days into medication & already I can notice a massive improvement.
The spots/Rashes are fast disappearing (they are getting smaller & smaller, ultimately disappearing completely)
I just hope they don't come back, soon i will be able to move around in shorts & sleeveless.
now, as far the HIV thing is concerned, am still not "out of the woods"
my 5the week test came back negative but the window period is that of 12 weeks & presently into my 7th week. ( will take a test on 8th week & 12 th week)
if those results come back negative then only am completely safe.
My dermatologist thinks am 100% safe from any STD or HIV.
the past few weeks have been tough for me figuring out what it actually is & ya can never count out the HIV thing...
but I do get hope from ya ..actually  I had a High degree Bug/insect bite, which took quite a while to heel, its important to mention..about a week into the Infection these Rashes started appearing. could it be that then..??
who knows..if HIV comes back negative, it doesn't matter really.
I will start afresh & hopefully learn from my mistake.
Thanks for you concern
much appreciated
cheers
Roy

[cutecarebear]

Hey roamingrover,

Just to comment from personal experience: I had pleva for a period from october 2007-june 2008. It was scary because the doctor told me it might never go completely away. No matter if the condition dies or not, you won't have as many spots as you did when it first appeared, I promise. I get one or two spots every now and again, but only when i get super stressed out; The condition shouldn't affect your marine thingy at all considering pleva isn't contagious. According to my dermatologist a number of things can cause it: stress (mental or stress on the body due to an illness (even strep throat can cause this to appear!)), a severe bug bite, etc

Pleva IS an autoimmune disorder, but it is not AIDS, nor is it a cause of AIDS or HIV. When I went to my family doctor after being diagnosed the first thing he said was "OMG LEIK DO U HAV AIDS" to which I had to respond kindly "no you *******". You might get that, because PLEVA is apparently associated with AIDS, but as long as your tests came back negative you're okay.

The drugs they had me on were tetracycline for a period of 3 months or so. (it took a full three months to properly diagnose me including 3 trips to the ER due to wrong medications!) But once on the tetracycline, i became severely sensative to the sun, getting sunburned extremely easily. One day, as the sunburn on my arm faded into a light tan I noticed all the spots on that arm had faded. OMFG! So my boyfriend got me to go out to the beach one day and I got extremely sunburned, but all my spots went away :D  Like I said, I still get one or two occasionally, but only when I get super duper stressed.

Hope that helps, best of luck :)

[jagesh50]

Medium-dose ultraviolet A1 therapy for pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta and pityriasis lichenoides chronica.Six patients showed complete clinical and histologic recovery out of the eight.J Am Acad Dermatol 2002 Sep;47(3):410-4 Abstract quote

[roamingrover]

its confirmed that it is PLEVA .
how long will it take for a complete recovery?
could you suggest some posible drugs for the disease.
I have a marine medical coming up in mid sept. could I be rejected on the basis of PLEVa??

[roamingrover]

the following are my test results, got my test results today.

complete test report as on 11-07-09

HAEMOGLOBIN >> 15.30 g/dl
W.B.c count >> 14900
Erythrocyte Count>> 4.81 million per c.u mm
P.C.V >> 40.9%
M.C.V>> 85.03 femtolitres
M.C.H>> 31.81 pico-grams
M.C.H.C>> 37.41%

DIFFERENTIAL COUNT

Neutrophilis: 80%
Lymphocytes: 16%
Eosinophils: 02%
Monocytes: 02%
Basophils :00%

Platelet count: 2.08 lach/cumm

ESR: 15 mm at the end of 1 hr.

G6P.D>> within normal limit.
decolourisation Time : 30 min.


HIV I & II (Spot Test) : Non-reactive. ( am 5 weeks into it, still pretty early)

V.D.R.L : Negative

X-Ray PA view:
               1. There is no active parenchymal lesion seen.
               2. There is no evidence of effusion seen.
               3. Both hila are normal in postion & density.
               4. Both costophrenic angles are clear.
               5. Bony thorax norml.
               6. Heart & aorta normal
               7. Both domes of diaphragm are normal in position & contour.

This are My Test results, what can you conclude from the above test Results.

Only rashes thus far. all across the body predominatly in the trunk, now slowly appearing in the face as well.
what can you interpret from the above.
eagerly waiting
cheers
Roy

[jagesh50]

The histopathology must have shown granuloma charecterestic of PNT,otherwise these investigations would have been unwarrented.