coastgirl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2006
Who wants to spend a day of vacation calling the insurance company and going to a clinic with all the fuss that entails...not me! But I can't find a "matching malady" from Doctor Google, and if I can't figure it out soon, I may have to trudge off to a clinic.
I have itchy spots that keep showing up in different places. It started after an evening walk on the beach and playing in the waves...lots of itchy marks on my ankles, which I presumed were some kind of bug I'd run in to on the beach. That was 5 days ago, and those spots are getting old, itching only occasionally, though they look worse now. Then I had a bunch develop on my forearm, then the other forearm, and now my chin and a few more on my face. I seem to be getting more daily. I looked up all kinds of things--doesn't look like chicken pox, or scabies (thank GOD!) or even heat rash, because of the locations (not in the folds of skin like elbow or armpit, or areas that are covered). Heat rash seems the most obvious, as it's VERY hot here this week, but it doesn't fit the locations I see in the descriptions. I suppose it could be a coincidental combo of things--bug bites on my ankles and something else on my arms and face.
Anyone run in to this? If it was going away I wouldn't be worried, but it seems odd that it is popping up in other places. I figure someone must've run into this before?
No one else in the family has developed any of this, and I'm not particularly sensitive generally, so probably not soap or some other contact irritant.
Help!
I have itchy spots that keep showing up in different places. It started after an evening walk on the beach and playing in the waves...lots of itchy marks on my ankles, which I presumed were some kind of bug I'd run in to on the beach. That was 5 days ago, and those spots are getting old, itching only occasionally, though they look worse now. Then I had a bunch develop on my forearm, then the other forearm, and now my chin and a few more on my face. I seem to be getting more daily. I looked up all kinds of things--doesn't look like chicken pox, or scabies (thank GOD!) or even heat rash, because of the locations (not in the folds of skin like elbow or armpit, or areas that are covered). Heat rash seems the most obvious, as it's VERY hot here this week, but it doesn't fit the locations I see in the descriptions. I suppose it could be a coincidental combo of things--bug bites on my ankles and something else on my arms and face.
Anyone run in to this? If it was going away I wouldn't be worried, but it seems odd that it is popping up in other places. I figure someone must've run into this before?
No one else in the family has developed any of this, and I'm not particularly sensitive generally, so probably not soap or some other contact irritant.
Help!