sensative skin

[Valerie]

I have just developed extremely sensative (to the touch) skin, right just underneath my chest.  It is almost like feeling achy from the flu, but it is just in my skin.  I do go to the tanning once in a blue moon, but that was about a week ago.  There is nothing on the exterior, where you can see it, but it is just enough to make me uncomfortable.

[Valerie]

Thanks a bunch, I took some ibuprophen and feel better!

[Alan Rockoff, MD]

I don't know for sure, Valerie, but it can't be anything serious.  In my experience, people who call my attention to one sensitive spot which has no visible rash are usually wrried that something (like a tanning booth . . .) has damaged their skin somehow.  Don't worry about it (one session can't damage anything), and watch the "sensitivity" melt away.

Best.

Dr. Rockoff