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Yes, I'll try to make an appointment with my doctor tomorrow. This rash is not at all itchy but feels a little like a rug burn. My problem is that it is that I need a little warning to take time off work: to book a supply teacher and to prepare in a different way. If I call in the morning, and the doctor says "Can you come in within the hour?" I have to say "No". Or if I take the whole day off as a sick day I call in at 7:00 a.m.....and then at 8:00 a.m. may find out that I can't get in to the doctor at all that day. That's why I opted for the Saturday walk-in clinic, but I don't think it did the trick. I told my sister that I am disappointed that medicine seems to be a very inexact science. Your diagnosis seems to depend on who you go to, not necessarily the symptoms and the science behind it. There...my rant for the day. From now on, I'll be nice.
 
Even a fairly mild case of shingles is fairly painful, at least from my experience. I had pain at a level that required ibuprofen and acetominophen rotation for about 4 weeks to cope. It's a nerve-type pain that seems to "go deep", depending on which nerve is affected. My rash finally broke out on my back, just below my shoulder blade, after at least two weeks of pain that I described as "feeling like a critter was trying to eat its way out of my rib cage". As soon as the rash emerged, I put two and two together and got in to see my GP in a big rush.
 
I had the sores first (at age 24) and thought that it was a flare up of my ever-present eczema. It was a mild case; I was young and otherwise healthy... but I was exhausted from the pain.
 
Nancy, I hope it's something that you can treat fairly easily and that it doesn't cause you too much grief!
I hear you on the disappointment in how accurate diagnoses can be hard at times.
 
New doctor, new diagnosis: shingles. This diagnosis doesn't surprise me. I too had them in my early twenties and they were not painful at all. We'll see, this time around.
 
Nancy said:
New doctor, new diagnosis: shingles. This diagnosis doesn't surprise me. I too had them in my early twenties and they were not painful at all. We'll see, this time around.
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Hopefully it's the same this time!
 
Hilary said:
I had the sores first (at age 24) and thought that it was a flare up of my ever-present eczema. It was a mild case; I was young and otherwise healthy... but I was exhausted from the pain.
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What clued you in that it was something different? I'm already playing guessing games with my skin. Apparently there's even a combined form of eczema and psoriasis - had that this past summer on top of 'just' eczema and psoriasis.

Shingles is something that concerns me, especially since I don't know how quickly I would recognize it.
 
ChemGal said:
What clued you in that it was something different? I'm already playing guessing games with my skin. Apparently there's even a combined form of eczema and psoriasis - had that this past summer on top of 'just' eczema and psoriasis.

Shingles is something that concerns me, especially since I don't know how quickly I would recognize it.
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I looked it up on line. lots of great rash pictures.
 
Laid up for a couple of days with a lovely flare-up of gout. Not sure how that will effect my going to seminary this Wednesday. I'll call the professor tonight.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Laid up for a couple of days with a lovely flare-up of gout. Not sure how that will effect my going to seminary this Wednesday. I'll call the professor tonight.
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Sorry to hear that Jae, have you been able to figure out some of your specific triggers?
 
ChemGal said:
Sorry to hear that Jae, have you been able to figure out some of your specific triggers?
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Thank you ChemGal :)

No, I don't know what my triggers are. I know that before it happened I had been eating a lot of dairy foods, and deep fried foods. I guess I'll have to make some changes in my diet, and work on losing weight.
 
ChemGal said:
What clued you in that it was something different? I'm already playing guessing games with my skin. Apparently there's even a combined form of eczema and psoriasis - had that this past summer on top of 'just' eczema and psoriasis.

Shingles is something that concerns me, especially since I don't know how quickly I would recognize it.
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I knew that I hadn't been eating any of my eczema's trigger foods. So it had to be either a) a new trigger, or b) not eczema.
It was limited to a spot that I couldn't reach to scratch between my shoulder blades. I couldn't properly see it but could tell that it wasn't as dry as my skin usually feels during an outbreak. I got on medication early enough that the sores healed within a week, but the pain in my upper back and shoulders lasted much longer.
 
Gout - I'm sorry to hear that Jae. Years ago my big toe joints became swollen, red, and extremely sore. I could barely manage to wear slippers and walk on my heels. The original diagnosis was gout. Tests proved otherwise - another form of arthritis connected with a flare-up of Crohns. But if the pain of gout is anything like the pain I experienced I know how you are suffering. Get better soon.
 
I hear gout is extremely painful. When my Dad had it, they said it was from eating too much 'organ' foods (liver). I bet that idea has changed over the years.
 
When my doctor thought I had it I was advised to be careful with - liver, rich fatty foods (like butter and cream), spices, processed meats.
 
Some say Urea is complicated in the causing ofde da'wid to arrest dancing ... and thus the downright rest as well as the upright dancing in separate positions to avoid sexs with sects! Perhaps da'wid is the forerunner from out there (broad-based) that gave birth to the concept of dawid as amon to bring on de Sol-omon? Tis a warning concern of ominous nature ... prescience in a world that suppressed fore thought with knowledge being a general humility of pathological amnesia or the pain being misplaced in S(x) {integral unknown} as mortal analgesia? It'll return if partaken without forethought ... so Eire can be unlearned as in err?

Thus internalized comprehension to a point of near eternal extinction ... and absolute zero is said to be unattainable in reality ... the virtue thus lies unseen ... quantum nature? Kinda frothy thoughts in polity!
 
Take care of yourself, @Pr. Jae . Gout can be quite serious. Hope you recover soon.

I looked kind of funny going into the drugstore today. A snow storm has just started to hit the area. Wind is up, light flurries, cold air.
I went in with sandals on. Hey..I just got a pedicure. Got a few strange looks.

Just about ready to go. Bit of laundry still...and looking for missing sandals somewhere in the house. Dang.
 
Bon voyage pinga - don't forget your sunscreen!

Take care jae - hoping a few days off your foot and on your meds will help that gout - pretty painful from what I hear.

And Nancy too ... feel better soon ... I hope the meds will help quickly for you.
 
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