I have spots

The doctor said that the cream I am getting, requires dabbing on each individual spot. He said it may take me some time! And did I have someone to help with the harder to reach ones? I do.

Once I have tried what he has prescibed, callamine lotion may be my next stop.
Especially I have have to wait months and months.

Someone has give me a piece of an al oe vera plant.
That is on my list to try out too. After the doctor cream and antibiotics try out.

Thank you for everyones' suggestions.

My sister has granuloma annulare which looks like ringworm but isn't. It comes and goes on her hands, feet and legs. She did have diabetes which may have had something to do with it. I don't going she was ever given any treatment for it.

You could try Organic Sea Buckthorn oil. Buy it on-line.... it worked wonders on a friends exzema

1 would go private.

I may have to at some point, petra.It has all gone on a bit too long.
I dont want to, both from the money point of view, and partly the principal.

An initial 30 min consultation would be £230 or something like that.
Then I suspect they might do allergy testing or some other test? So another cost.
Then another consultation to find out the result?

I do feel like I just need a cream[or hopefully the antibiotics will work] and it will all go away?!
But I would still not then know why I had the spots in the first place.

pascal30 - I will look into that.

rubysong - I have not come across that before. At first glance it didnt look like it, but having a second look, I wont rule it out.

I developed an itchy rash around my neck and chest after I started using Dettol Sanitising rinse in my washing machine. Obviously allergic to the chemicals in it.

Could be an allergy.
You need to see a consultant dermatologist, he was the only one who diagnosed me correctly.
I have chronic urticaria, had it for 60 years. I am in remission at the moment.

jeanie99

Could be an allergy.
You need to see a consultant dermatologist, he was the only one who diagnosed me correctly.
I have chronic urticaria, had it for 60 years. I am in remission at the moment.

I would imagine the OP probably has. She first posted asking for help 6 months ago

A friend of mine's DH had just this. He was told it was ringworm and then given creams etc., but it didn't clear up and spread all over his torso, he went back to the docs several times, then was finally told it was a post viral rash. It eventually disappeared.
Have you had a virus recently?

MrsBoot what's the point of posting on a thread from last july'24?

start your own maybe.

If desperate and you can afford you could get a skin biopsy analysis private for about £350, depends on how bad it is. You could also go back to the GP and ramp up how ill you’re feeling to be pushed up the queue. The more you make a fuss the sooner they’ll prioritise it

I am grateful for any bit of help and ideas I can get.

Sadly no to getting an appointment to a dermatologist.
The waiting list is 12 months in our area.

Helpfully, I saw a different doctor at our Surgery end of last month[thought I had seen them all].
She has made an urgerent referral to the Dermatologist.
I had a NHS letter through today, but there is no actual date on it for an appointment.

The spots now cover 20% of my body.

Babs03 - no virus. But I did have a very nasty bout of diarrhoea{i was told it was either from a bug, or because I did not reheat noodles enough[my fault] 6 months before the spots started. I have always wondered whether that is connected.

KateW19 I did have some flakes of skin sent off for analysis. Not sure if that is what you are referring to?
The answer came back "no action required".

I dont know what to make of everything really.

Five years ago, during Covid, my husband had a very bad case of dermatitis and rash. It was especially bad around his ankles.

The GP prescribed him a steroid cream and Zerobase emollient cream but the problem and the itchiness did not go away.

I looked at his prescribed medications and noticed that the surgery has prescribed him a different brand of statin. So, suggested to him to stop taking the statin and see whether the problem went away and it did.

Instead of emollient cream, he now use Johnson baby oil if his skin gets too dry.

I have GA rubysong. I’ve had it 20 years. Cortisone cream when it’s bad, otherwise dry thoroughly after bathing and keep the skin moisturized. Lots online about it.

Never had a problem with my skin until Covid. I has spots appear both sides of mouth, diagnosed eventually asAngular Chelitus, nothing works on it though, them I got excema rash back and legs again nothing seemed to help, then had blotches appear, one removed, told it was Planctar Lichen, can't keep up with them all. I feel a nuisance trying to see a doctor as nothing gets sorted. I take a anti histamine each night if I can't stop itching.

Fancythat
I’m fascinated how you remember that you didnt reheat noodles 6 months before the spots started.

fancythat. You may not have changed any of the products you use, but a manufacturer maay have reformulated them without announcing that.

I used a specific body lotion for years without any problems, then it began making my skin itch - it had been reformulated and I was allergic to one of the chemicals now being used in it.

You can also develop allergies - and many do, as you age. I had to stop wearing contact lens because I became allergic to the preservatives used in all the liquids neccessary to clean and moisterise them.

You problem does not sound like an allergy, but do not rule it out.

Monica thanks for that. I never thought about a manufacturer reformulating something.

A couple of people have told me[including someone medical, well actually thinking about it, they both are] that we can become allergic to something later in life.

I sway between thinking I am allergic to something, and that I am not.

I am struggling to understand why it is all taking so long for me to get any form of definitive answer as to what I have.

Allsorts - I got long covid. Months before there was even a word for it.
No idea if that changed me biologically, or changed my DNA?
I dont know much about that sort of thing.

I feel for what you are going through.

Personally, I do get relief at night.
I changed my clothes and bedclothes to synthetic ones, as cotton and linen make my skin too cold.
I also make sure I do not get too hot or too cold at night.
I have moved my bed away from the radiator and any heat source as that aggrevates things.
I have a strange thing where my hands need to keep warm at night and in the evenings. No idea why.

Georgesgran I am struggling with moisturiser.
I can see the sense.
For me, it makes my skin too hard and stiff and uncomfortable.
I would like a soft one.
Have just recontacted the doctor and asked if I can try a different sort.
What sort do you use please?

I am not on any other medications except for what I am being prescribed for the spots.
Spots is a bit of a silly word now, as I have clumps of affected skin.
The spots joined up with each other.

Previous to all this, I rarely went to the doctor.
Every two years or so, about something or other.

I amy have written before, I have never had any skin problem up to now. And there are no skin problems in my family history.

it has all "come out of the blue".

Which leads me to petra's post.

That was when my problems may have started.
In my opinion.
Didnt want to write all this, as didnt want to out myself, and didnt want to be graphic, but here goes.

18 months ago, I came back from Northern France[I rarely go abroad].
On the journey back home, i bought some noodles from a motorway service station.I did not eat them all.
I live 4 hours from that service station.
Stupidly, the next evening I reheated the leftovers and ate them.
I know, looking back, that I heated them to warm, and not sizzling hot.
The next morning[and here people will need to excuse the graphics], my tummy felt like Mount Vesuvius. I woke up thinking, what on earth is wrong?
I then had diarrheoa for 3 weeks.
[I went to the doctor after 1 week}.

We decided between us, I had eeither caught a bug on the way home from holiday or it was the noodles.
On balance she thought it was a bug from France.
I did tell her I thought I might have been bitten once over there, but I didnt know for sure.

After the diarrheoa stopped[even the doctor was relieved], my tummy did not feel properly right for 3 months.
Then I started to have problems with my teeth.
My dentist told me I needed 9 fillings.
She said I had bacteria which had caused decay.
She thought the bug may have been the culprit.

The next month, or was it that same month[again exzcuse the graphics], I had a bottom crack that was dry skin, and wouldnt clear up with Savlon or whatever I tried at home. [it did eventually when I swapped toilet paper].

The next month my spots started.

Is it all related to the "bug"? I have no idea.

Fancythat
I poster earlier on this thread that you should go private.
After reading the incident with the noodles I think it’s more imperative that you do.
The NHS wouldn’t spend the time it’s going to take ( a myriad of tests) to get to the bottom of it.