Medical Help please !!!

metin


Joined: 08/09/2008
Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 10:21

Help..... can't get to a doctor today.



My hands are ıtchy (especıally my palms) and have red blotches on them. My fıngers are coming up with lumps under the skın.......



never had this before......what have İ got ???

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 10:24

Been cutting fig trees ?

RoxyBob


Joined: 13/07/2009
Posts: 205

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 10:26

Sounds like Prickly heat.

I use to suffer from this and know how you are suffering.



Go to a chemist and show your symtoms and they will prescribe something to relieve it.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 10:27

metin



I think that Hippo may have hit the nail on the head. Get some anti-histamines from the Pharmacist that will take the itch out. Stay out of the sun and if gets any worse seek medical assistance.



Chris

metin


Joined: 08/09/2008
Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 10:31

Thanks folks.....



don't touch the fıg tree.......leave the gardenıng to him !!!



Went to pharmacy yesterday and they said ezcema.......but İ just don't think so.

nurseawful



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Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 10:34

metin my brother has suffered from eczema all his life and what you have described certainly doesn't sound like it, especially the lumps under the skin it really sounds more like something you have had contact with. Is it only your hands that are affected?



Chris

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 11:04

I have had this on and off for years and was also diagnosed with excema. It became so bad that the rash went under my nails and they started to part from the nail bed. Not good.



I've come to the conclusion that it is contact dermititus, when I have a flare-up I can't even touch a tomato or a lemon as the acid in them burns my hands. Allergic, even to rubber gloves. ( That gets you out of the washing up! ) The only treatment and it is not ideal for long term is steroid cream. Also avoid any cream with lanolin.



Good Luck, it is not nice.

metin


Joined: 08/09/2008
Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 11:05

Started with my feet.....but pharmacy said that was athletes foot (which Iim treating).



Blotches just spreading onto my arms now (only very slightly). Fıngers & palms are worst.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 11:13

Metin,



I think the best thing to do in is now go and see a Doc or pop into Girne Hospital which is cheaper and get another opinion. No matter how good a pharmacist is they are not doctors. And I can only guess going by your description.



Chris

metin


Joined: 08/09/2008
Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 11:15

Ballyboffin



thanks.......i just hope its not that......

How do you catch that ????

tracer


Joined: 02/06/2010
Posts: 442

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 13:40

beware of pine trees caterpillars even the soil the creep is afected and if you touch it...........................!

joanie1


Joined: 25/07/2008
Posts: 164

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 18:23

Have you been trimming any oleandors - a friend of mine got a dreadful allergy from deadheading the spent flowers. She went to a dermatologist in Girne and he diagnosed shingles! She never goes near the oleandor trees and the skin condition has never come back. Hope this helps.



Joan

stellasstar1



Joined: 02/07/2008
Posts: 1519

Message Posted:
04/08/2010 19:45

Is your skin getting scaley Dawn, because that sounds like eczema, which can also come from stress, but I agree with Chris, go to the hospital or a doctor. I get it on my knuckles and palms and drives me mad. Good luck with the diagnosis, hope it's nothing to horrible. Stella x

metin


Joined: 08/09/2008
Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 11:52

Thanks everyone..... espec Roxybob



Prickly Heat !!!!



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JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 13:14

Hi Dawn, speak to me off the bopard please, I have same problem 4 months now. when the rash comes it is bad, I have found one other guy who also has this., Sounds similar.



I had the jab in the bum at the hospital and it did clear up, but also had take 2 zirtec per day, It seems to have reappeared.



When I first had it Nurse Awful thought shinles, but when shw saw it , she said that this rash was not really known to her.



Mine started with itchy palms and fingers, with lumps under the skin, (like chilblains) but then rash appeared around my neck and spread rapidly over my body.



Good Luck Dawn Regards Lee

stellasstar1



Joined: 02/07/2008
Posts: 1519

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 17:21

Rash under the skin sounds like blocked sweat glands, you wouldn't believe it but I used to get it in England. I'm sure Chris will pick me up on the correct name, but I think it was salicic acid (or something like that) mixed with cheap white cream(again forgotten the name) that the doctor gave me to clear it up. We're all getting very good at this diagnostic game. Perhaps we should all join Chris as her helpers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!