Re: RASHES Medical query if you please?

Smokie Darling (Annie) wrote:
LooseCannon wrote:

Codeee01@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:



Since I'm picking your brains anyway.

I've NEVER been the sort to get rashes.

(okay, except for the crushing romantic blow which brought on a
shingles attack, and haunts me to this day)...the shingles, not the
blow.

STOP Snickering please! My brother got shingles over a CAR he lusted
after when he was 16. ;)

You dont get shingles from lusting after a car! Shingles is a virus,
related to the Chicken Pox herpes virus. If lusting after a car gave
ppl a virus, nearly every male from the age of 12 and up would be
covered in em!


People get a shingles outbreak (for lack of a better word) for any
number of reasons,

But before any of thoes reasons can cause one, exposure to the virus has to happen.

and emotional upset can cause a case to occur (or
should I say re-occur?). So, it's possible that the brother wanted
*that* car particularly badly, and was "devastated" when he couldn't
have it (or do males 12 and up not get devastated?).

Oh, 12 yr old males get seriously devastated daily! But without exposure to the virus, they can be devastated to the end of time & still not get shingles! Same w/chicken pox...ya cant get em cuz of being upset. Ya gotta be exposed, and then you can get em. Viruses are not self generating, they dont appear outta nowhere. If they did, HIV would be spread further then it already is.


Then there are those like me, no one knows why I developed them, or why
I ignored them for so long, or why they went away untreated (except for
a grayish "thing" that stayed under my left arm for ages after - until
I used steroid ointment then it too went away).

Theyre hell. My aunt got them badly not long before she died, and she said there were few things that hurt as badly and deeply as they did. I dont wanna know what its like. But she HAD to be exposed, even if ya cant track down the exposure, its there. Shingles cant exist without exposure.





SO..............................

While on morphine, I started breaking out in BRIGHT
red itchy rashes....just a few small bumps, but BIG patches of
skin....they'd come and go
just as mysteriously, only to return the next day or day after.


While I was on Morphine Sulphate, my eyeballs would itch so bad, I'd
want to take them out and just scratch them (and ya can't do that).


Nothing new "environmentally" or medically except morphine.


When the doc switched me back to oxy, they went away.....for two
weeks.

He'd also given me Zyrtec, which seems to clear them. We were almost
certain it was a reaction to morphine, but that can't BE if they're
showing up again now, can it?

OR

Is this just another manifestation of Fibro I've yet to run across in
reading?


Heck, after reading the fibro group, I'm not sure what all can happen
because of it. I know that my RDs diagnosed me as having (along with
RA, Osteo-arthritis, bursitis, and a couple of other fun diseases...)
fibro, but from what some of the symptoms are, I don't know anymore
(though I've got 18 or 18 tender/painful spots), I have the "fog" and I
have the totally screwed sleep pattern. Not sure about substance "P"
(I think it is) since neither I nor my docs want to do a tap and find
out.


Thanks for any and all help,

codeee


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