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(Message started by: athos on Dec 21^st, 2004, 10:20am)

Title: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by athos on Dec 21^st, 2004, 10:20am

Weird symptoms
Congestion off an on... sore tongue, throat, itchy ears and throat, malaise, Occasional nausea, red blotchy patches that sometime coinsode with itching and pain patches have only occurred on head, hands, back and lower torso. Other areas do not turn red, just painful

Areas of Pain (range from slight ache to can’t walk):
Note: Painful areas also swell. These can be both joints and muscle
Right arm ache starting in the thoracic spine down
Left thumb red and swollen
Left and right ring fingers starting at the second joint down with swelling
Left are right palms with painful red blotchy areas
Right Calf
Back and below belt hive looking welts that last about 2-3 days
Left arm inside from elbow to wrist
Top of left and right arms from elbow to wrist.
Rectal area
Throat was swollen for one day
Tongue painful several different days.
Right 4th toe.
General body weakens malaise feel flu-ish
Light fevers 1-2 degree for a couple of hours at a time

Went to ER on Thursday... said this is not an emergency - here is an antibiotic go home.

Went to ER again on Sat and they said, "This is very Strange" They had 3 different docs look at the red patches, and finally called it Erythema Multiforme. Labs were fine... one enzyme was slightly off, not enough to be an issue I think that he was guessing because blood test came back normal

I am concerned that it might be Rhabdomyolysis, but not sure.

Title: Re: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by floridian on Dec 21^st, 2004, 12:23pm

Erythema Multiforme is like hives or a reaction to a drug or infection. It usually is a rather mild condition, rarely it becomes serious, turning into EM-major or Stevens-Johnson disease. About 1% of people who visit dermatologists do so because of the mild form of EM - only about 1 or 2 people per million get EM Major. http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic173.htm

Verapamil can sometimes cause a rash-like problem called lymphomatoid papulosis - which is more like huge pimples.
http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic254.htm

Quote:

J Neurol. 2004 Apr;251(4):473-5.

Verapamil and lymphomatoid papulosis in chronic cluster headache.

Afridi S, Bacon CM, Bowling J, Goadsby PJ. Headache Group Institute of Neurology and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.

PMID: 15083295 [PubMed - in process]

Title: Re: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by TomM on Dec 21^st, 2004, 12:24pm

Sounds like a rash or infection. IMHO.
TomM

Title: Re: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by Ree on Dec 21^st, 2004, 1:42pm

Sounds like shingles........which is a variant of chicken pox for our age group... hope not it can last a while... My son just had these and it is very painful... Let us know... ree

Title: Re: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by athos on Dec 21^st, 2004, 4:44pm

well it seems to get worse if an area has a lot of preassure applied to it... My feet, my back after i had my daughter use her elbow on a sore muscle I had a hughe red and swollen area that itches like crazy

Title: Re: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by Kris_in_SJ on Dec 21^st, 2004, 8:10pm

Have you been tested for Lyme's Disease? Just a thought ....

Kris

Title: Re: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by Redd715 on Dec 21^st, 2004, 8:26pm

on 12/21/04 at 20:10:28, Kris_in_SJ wrote:

Have you been tested for Lyme's Disease? Just a thought ....

Kris

Ken now that I think about it thats exactly the same things my friend Bill went threw with Limes....

Great catch there Kris!

Title: Re: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by Giovanni on Dec 21^st, 2004, 8:47pm

Ditto on Kris

Check this out:

http://alohamedicinals.com/guest/lymes.htm

John

Title: Re: Need some help identifing a health prob
Post by Mr. Happy on Dec 21^st, 2004, 9:42pm

Lyme's is a good thought, but it's more of an east coast kind of thing. I get to deal with it a couple times/year. Filthy deer ticks love my pagen white meat. A form of POX hits closer to home, but who know's what kind of pox.

Quote:

Sounds like a rash or infection. IMHO.
TomM

Thanks for narrowing it down. Sheesh. Lawyers....(and their future Ex spouses.)

Quote:

"The longer the tick stays attached, the more likely you are to get sick. If I found an engorged tick on me, I'd simply treat myself for Lyme disease" (this quote is taken directly from the medical journal - Journal of Infectious Diseases 175: 996, 1997)

When in doubt, treat it with $20 of anitbiotics for 2-3 weeks. Beats the shit out of the alternative.

No idea what the hell you have, Ken.........but knowing you, it'll be something worth noting.

It's always something,
RJ