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The Ashtapadan Chapter 21. Seeing TWO handsome men at the lecture? Gentry's not learning anything today!
2024.05.21 22:25 Silver_liver The Ashtapadan Chapter 21. Seeing TWO handsome men at the lecture? Gentry's not learning anything today!
chapters 1&2
chapter 3
chapter 4
chapter 5
chapter 6
chapter 7
chapter 8
chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
The lecture was supposed to be on Rationality 101, apparently not for Newcomers only. Serene was there to have her back but G was having a hard time focusing.
The boring black uniform more fitting for a hotel receptionist defaced the godlike beauty standing in front of a huge screen. Gentry couldn’t believe her eyes: this was the man she had her hands on a little while ago?
No, it couldn’t be.
It had been just an avatar, too perfect in its unblemished visage, too pure for this world. Yet the man whose face she remembered as if it was etched on the back of her eyelids, who she’d been constantly thinking about, who her hands itched to snatch, was standing right there, in the flesh.
Back in the dreamy simulated world she caught herself thinking that a trim waist like this couldn’t anatomically work on a human, yet here he was: a towering spread of fit shoulders perfectly balanced above the flexible whip of his midsection. The light-grey eyes that betrayed every movement of his pupils were as real as the ones that reflected the mock moon during her test. Below them lay the sharp slope of the cheekbones one could cut themselves on.
The only thing a bit different, apart from the outfit choice, was the young god’s hair. In the simulation, it was flowing and probably too long to be practical. This person’s mane was much shorter and fell down his neck in a neat ponytail, tastefully tamed with a single hairpin.
She had to get her hands on this treasure.
He was making last minute preparations for the lecture, looking through the papers on the desk, dark strands framing his face, light grey eyes sharp in careful concentration.
Professor Q, huh.
He said this was his name, and so did the note on the lecture hall door.
She was sure it was the man who had melted in her arms making the most delicious sounds a male throat could produce.
Had he recognised her?
Unlikely.
At the time of the simulation session, she didn’t have a camera that could pick up her facial features but just to be on the safe side, she decided to go by “G” in his class. There were bound to be lots of people with a name starting with a G, right? What would be the odds it was this particular newcomer that Q had tested that would end up in his class?
The man finally lifted his eyes at the audience and a gentle smile momentarily graced his features before disappearing as if he didn’t see someone he’d expected to.
The holoboard on the wall behind him obediently lit up following his nonchalant gesture. Gentry found it annoying that one needed a pair of special glasses to see all the augmented reality stuff and really navigate the city but again, with Sereen’s help she had more or less gotten used to it in the couple of days she had to deal with the necessities like settling down, getting food and finding her way around Ashtapada.
Still, could they use a piece of chalk or, at least, a marker to write on the board? No need to show off your Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism tech just to write a couple of notes on the board!
On second thought, high-tech-crazy or not, if this city brought up men like this one, she would definitely do her best to stay here to… reap the benefits!
They took a desk next to a huge clear floor-to-ceiling window that overlooked the winter garden.
“Professor Q seems a little distracted today,” Sereen said, swiftly tapping a couple of buttons on G’s wrist to show her how to confirm that she was attending the lecture. “He’s usually much more chatty and friendly. I wonder what got into him.”
“Is he?” Gentry responded with an artificial air of indifference. “I just hope he’s more open to a discussion than that Poe guy.”
“He is! And Professor Poe isn’t that bad,” Sereen reprimanded before chuckling a little — since his little secret became known to students, he became known as Holopoe. “Just wait and see, it’s gonna be a blast. Q’s lectures are always very engaging.”
It proved to be utter bullshit.
After fiddling with the symbols on the interactive screen for ten minutes into the class, students getting more and more agitated behind his back, the lecturer seemed to give up. Turning back to the audience, he absentmindedly nodded to a couple of people in the lecture hall and sighed with a painfully fake smile.
“For today’s class, we are going to need to read a certain extract from a book,” he said, tone apologetic for some reason, but it solidified G’s conviction that she already knew this person. “I’ve just sent it to each of your wristcomms. We’ll have some quiet time and read it by ourselves, alright?”
“Reading from the comm?” Sereen mumbled to herself. “Couldn’t he just print them out?”
The rest of the students’ grumbles showed that they shared her disappointment. Q could only hopelessly smile again before returning to his work on the board.
Reading from the little semi-transparent screens was indeed torture. Quickly giving up on trying to awkwardly use gestures for scrolling through the text, she looked out of the window to entertain herself with the garden outside. From the modest height they were sitting at, the people below were quite discernible, partly hidden by the greenery, spread here and there in small groups and pairs. Gentry longed to be there, too. What was the use of being here with the most attractive person in the whole world if the only thing she could see was his back?
Well, the back didn’t look half bad, if she was honest, and what was below also pleased the eye.
But still. It would soon bore even the most easily entertained.
Her gaze fell to a small clearing where a lone male figure was sitting, writing something in a notebook. By the looks of it, the notebook was a real paper-made thing without the bells and whistles usual for Ashtapada. The next thing G noticed was a pair of slender legs, barefoot, stretched to dip the toes into the clear water of the artificial stream.
God bless the urban designers of this place!
The figure lifted the head and in an inconceivably graceful motion, swung the long blond bangs away from the face.
G straightened her back. Was it... Ok, maybe Q was the most handsome man she’d seen in her life but this... This was the younger boy she’d noticed a couple of days back, the one in a plaid skirt, shamelessly flirting with everyone within reach. Today, he wasn’t wearing one but the blue jeans hugging his thighs, rolled up almost to the knees, presented a picture just as tantalizing. Even with the hair was a completely different colour, even though the half-up, half-down style kept his face hidden, she was absolutely certain it was the same person.
Just you wait, young beauty, as soon as this “lecture” was over, your princess in shining armour was coming to pick you up!
Suddenly snapping out of the dull weariness, she turned on the auglasses S helped her obtain earlier and tapped away on her comm screen.
What a chance to give the local text sharing feature a go!
“The garden is pretty, but with a blossom like you, it is truly breathtaking. I wonder if anyone has picked this sweet flower or if anyone dares to,” she typed a cheesy note and folded the message into a neat 3D figurine of an origami paper crane with her fingers in the air.
Was S watching? Screw it, even if she was, she couldn’t read the message with her glasses off, right?
Carefully aiming the device at the lone figure, she launched the crane downwards, and it fluttered like a weightless butterfly in spirals, through the glass and right into the young man’s lap, not disturbing the notebook pages. He started at first at the intrusion but then turned his own glasses on and unfolded the message. A shy smile appeared on his plump lips, and he looked flattered, turning his head around to see if the sender was in sight. Catching no one, he typed something below the initial message and deftly folded it back into a crane that, to G’s surprise, flew directly at her, in uneven spirals along the wall. The man traced it with a smile, propping himself back on his arms, his whole slim body and face on full display now.
God, was he good-looking.
Easily passing the physical border of the glass again, the crane crashed into Gentry’s wristcomm, dutifully delivering the message and betraying her tactical position at the same time. An amused kind of surprise showed on the young man’s face and he waved at her to show that she had been exposed. She waved back, trying to look nonchalant but probably failing miserably.
Very smooth, G, way to go.
The message read, “Is a flower only good for looking at? Not this one.”
Oooh, this boy was playing with fire!
“Hey, G,” Sereen nudged. “Have you finished reading?”
“Mm? Oh, yeah.” Gentry lied easily. She had skimmed the first couple of paragraphs and was sure she’d be able to come up with something if asked.
“Done everybody?” the deep gentle voice called from the holoboard and G’s attention snapped back to the dignified face.
The class murmured affirmatively.
“I’m sorry today’s lecture isn’t as fun as usual,” he admitted. “I must say I’m still unsure how to approach such complex topic as this one. But with your help, I hope we’ll figure it out.”
Everyone seemed to perk up.
“You just read an extract on paradoxes,” Q went on. “And you might be wondering why we are raising a philosophical topic on a rational thinking course.”
“There you go,” Sereen whispered. “He’s back to normal!”
G humphed. This did seem interesting. Was it a good idea to read the extract after all?
Q continued, “In the text, you might have encountered the definition of a paradox. Would anyone explain it with their own words?”
A raised hand and the lecturer’s nod brought some courageous soul to their feet.
“It’s when you start with the correct premises, use consistent logic but wind up with an impossible conclusion,” they said. “There are three types: falsidical, veridical and antimony-type, which are...”
“Correct,” Q smiled and nodded the person back down. It was a smile worth starting a thousand wars over.
“Now there’s a reason why I asked you to read about them. Why do you think people have been fascinated with paradoxes for such a long time?”
S raised her hand and received a kind invitation.
“I might be wrong,” she said. “But it seems that they point at the limitations of our thinking, things that seem rational but in fact aren’t. We feel that with our all-conquering logic we can solve any puzzle but it’s not always the case. Right?”
“This is very insightful,” the teacher confirmed. “It is believed by many that what’s rational is true and therefore what rationality cannot explain must be false.”
“I definitely know someone who would die on that hill,” Gentry grumbled under her breath.
“I’m sorry?” Q asked. “Is there something you wanted to add... sorry, I don’t know your name?”
Still half mad with professor Poe, Gentry stood up. “It’s G, I’m a Newcomer. I was saying how a human mind can fool itself into thinking it knows what it looks at as long as it makes sense. But in reality, it’s not there, like the sky.”
That was the only thing she remembered from that last lecture! She felt the tips of her ears heat up but the kind and considering look on Q’s face showed her gamble paid off.
“These are very insightful observations, G, why don’t we try exploring them together?” — he waived her to sit down and turned back to the class — “Five minutes to discuss how paradoxes might reveal the weaknesses of rational thinking. Send your answers to the board when you’re done.”
“Whoa, daring as usual,” Sereen smiled. “I knew you’d enjoy his class.”
“Now, consider these two questions,” Q said to another student who stood up at his hand wave. “If an unstoppable force meets an indestructible object, what is going to happen?”
The person seemed to contemplate it for a while and the teacher didn’t rush him.
“Isn’t it one of those which are impossible to solve because the existence of the one automatically disproves the existence of the other?”
Q nodded, “Correct. The second one about the barber in a small town is of the same sort. Sereen?”
S stood up too, “The one that shaves all and only men that don’t shave themselves?”
“Yes,” he confirmed. “At first, a premise like this seems perfectly reasonable, doesn’t it?”
“It does,” S responded, somewhat rashly. “But it’s clear that a barber like this cannot exist.”
“Wait, really?” Gentry whispered as Q nodded in satisfaction and urged her friend to go on.
“Yes, if we ask ourselves if this barber shaves himself. If he doesn’t, then he is part of the group which he does shave that do not shave themselves, but if he is in this group, then he does shave himself which makes it impossible for him to be this barber by definition.”
While the rest of the class was catching up with the logic, Q’s smile got only wider, more inviting.
“What does it tell us about the nature of the premise then?” he asked.
“That although it seems that it sounds logical on the surface, it is in fact nonsense and we don’t even need to hear the rest of the riddle to discard it completely,” S concluded.
The man chuckled.
“Well, I wouldn’t be that brash, to be honest, but on balance, you’re right,” he said. “If you stay after the lecture, I might recommend a couple of books on the topic. Your Newcomer friend is welcome to stay, too.”
G put up the best of the aloof fronts, “I’d be happy to, Professor.”
“Q is fine,” he smiled again and went on addressing the rest of the class that immediately exploded into a heated discussion.
***
“Basically, what I think we’re supposed to learn from this,” S concluded after a while, standing up so that everyone could hear her. “Is that before applying rationality, we have to make sure that all the premises we are dealing with are in fact realistic. Otherwise, there is no way rational thinking will help us.”
“Excellently put, as always,” Q applauded. “I’d love to see if everyone agrees or has something else to add to the discussion but our time is up. Feel free to write me a letter with your reflections on the topic.”
As interesting as the class was, the urge to leave the premises as soon as the teacher dismissed everyone seemed to be universal and applicable even to the Ashtapadans.
“I have to go now,” Sereen said. “Text you later, ok?” And with a reciprocal nod to Q, disappeared in the doors, joining the rest of the students.
Sadly, she couldn’t recall what they were talking about after the lecture, nor what titles Professor recommended for some home reading. She just hoped she didn’t make a fool of herself.
What Gentry did remember though was that after Q left as well and she came up to the panoramic window, Sereen and the mysterious flower boy were leaving the garden together. And it was hard not to notice that her new friend took off her wristcomm before they took off, and hid it in the tall grass.
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chapter 3
chapter 4
chapter 5
chapter 6
chapter 7
chapter 8
chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
The lecture was supposed to be on Rationality 101, apparently not for Newcomers only. Serene was there to have her back but G was having a hard time focusing.
The boring black uniform more fitting for a hotel receptionist defaced the godlike beauty standing in front of a huge screen. Gentry couldn’t believe her eyes: this was the man she had her hands on a little while ago?
No, it couldn’t be.
It had been just an avatar, too perfect in its unblemished visage, too pure for this world. Yet the man whose face she remembered as if it was etched on the back of her eyelids, who she’d been constantly thinking about, who her hands itched to snatch, was standing right there, in the flesh.
Back in the dreamy simulated world she caught herself thinking that a trim waist like this couldn’t anatomically work on a human, yet here he was: a towering spread of fit shoulders perfectly balanced above the flexible whip of his midsection. The light-grey eyes that betrayed every movement of his pupils were as real as the ones that reflected the mock moon during her test. Below them lay the sharp slope of the cheekbones one could cut themselves on.
The only thing a bit different, apart from the outfit choice, was the young god’s hair. In the simulation, it was flowing and probably too long to be practical. This person’s mane was much shorter and fell down his neck in a neat ponytail, tastefully tamed with a single hairpin.
She had to get her hands on this treasure.
He was making last minute preparations for the lecture, looking through the papers on the desk, dark strands framing his face, light grey eyes sharp in careful concentration.
Professor Q, huh.
He said this was his name, and so did the note on the lecture hall door.
She was sure it was the man who had melted in her arms making the most delicious sounds a male throat could produce.
Had he recognised her?
Unlikely.
At the time of the simulation session, she didn’t have a camera that could pick up her facial features but just to be on the safe side, she decided to go by “G” in his class. There were bound to be lots of people with a name starting with a G, right? What would be the odds it was this particular newcomer that Q had tested that would end up in his class?
The man finally lifted his eyes at the audience and a gentle smile momentarily graced his features before disappearing as if he didn’t see someone he’d expected to.
The holoboard on the wall behind him obediently lit up following his nonchalant gesture. Gentry found it annoying that one needed a pair of special glasses to see all the augmented reality stuff and really navigate the city but again, with Sereen’s help she had more or less gotten used to it in the couple of days she had to deal with the necessities like settling down, getting food and finding her way around Ashtapada.
Still, could they use a piece of chalk or, at least, a marker to write on the board? No need to show off your Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism tech just to write a couple of notes on the board!
On second thought, high-tech-crazy or not, if this city brought up men like this one, she would definitely do her best to stay here to… reap the benefits!
They took a desk next to a huge clear floor-to-ceiling window that overlooked the winter garden.
“Professor Q seems a little distracted today,” Sereen said, swiftly tapping a couple of buttons on G’s wrist to show her how to confirm that she was attending the lecture. “He’s usually much more chatty and friendly. I wonder what got into him.”
“Is he?” Gentry responded with an artificial air of indifference. “I just hope he’s more open to a discussion than that Poe guy.”
“He is! And Professor Poe isn’t that bad,” Sereen reprimanded before chuckling a little — since his little secret became known to students, he became known as Holopoe. “Just wait and see, it’s gonna be a blast. Q’s lectures are always very engaging.”
It proved to be utter bullshit.
After fiddling with the symbols on the interactive screen for ten minutes into the class, students getting more and more agitated behind his back, the lecturer seemed to give up. Turning back to the audience, he absentmindedly nodded to a couple of people in the lecture hall and sighed with a painfully fake smile.
“For today’s class, we are going to need to read a certain extract from a book,” he said, tone apologetic for some reason, but it solidified G’s conviction that she already knew this person. “I’ve just sent it to each of your wristcomms. We’ll have some quiet time and read it by ourselves, alright?”
“Reading from the comm?” Sereen mumbled to herself. “Couldn’t he just print them out?”
The rest of the students’ grumbles showed that they shared her disappointment. Q could only hopelessly smile again before returning to his work on the board.
Reading from the little semi-transparent screens was indeed torture. Quickly giving up on trying to awkwardly use gestures for scrolling through the text, she looked out of the window to entertain herself with the garden outside. From the modest height they were sitting at, the people below were quite discernible, partly hidden by the greenery, spread here and there in small groups and pairs. Gentry longed to be there, too. What was the use of being here with the most attractive person in the whole world if the only thing she could see was his back?
Well, the back didn’t look half bad, if she was honest, and what was below also pleased the eye.
But still. It would soon bore even the most easily entertained.
Her gaze fell to a small clearing where a lone male figure was sitting, writing something in a notebook. By the looks of it, the notebook was a real paper-made thing without the bells and whistles usual for Ashtapada. The next thing G noticed was a pair of slender legs, barefoot, stretched to dip the toes into the clear water of the artificial stream.
God bless the urban designers of this place!
The figure lifted the head and in an inconceivably graceful motion, swung the long blond bangs away from the face.
G straightened her back. Was it... Ok, maybe Q was the most handsome man she’d seen in her life but this... This was the younger boy she’d noticed a couple of days back, the one in a plaid skirt, shamelessly flirting with everyone within reach. Today, he wasn’t wearing one but the blue jeans hugging his thighs, rolled up almost to the knees, presented a picture just as tantalizing. Even with the hair was a completely different colour, even though the half-up, half-down style kept his face hidden, she was absolutely certain it was the same person.
Just you wait, young beauty, as soon as this “lecture” was over, your princess in shining armour was coming to pick you up!
Suddenly snapping out of the dull weariness, she turned on the auglasses S helped her obtain earlier and tapped away on her comm screen.
What a chance to give the local text sharing feature a go!
“The garden is pretty, but with a blossom like you, it is truly breathtaking. I wonder if anyone has picked this sweet flower or if anyone dares to,” she typed a cheesy note and folded the message into a neat 3D figurine of an origami paper crane with her fingers in the air.
Was S watching? Screw it, even if she was, she couldn’t read the message with her glasses off, right?
Carefully aiming the device at the lone figure, she launched the crane downwards, and it fluttered like a weightless butterfly in spirals, through the glass and right into the young man’s lap, not disturbing the notebook pages. He started at first at the intrusion but then turned his own glasses on and unfolded the message. A shy smile appeared on his plump lips, and he looked flattered, turning his head around to see if the sender was in sight. Catching no one, he typed something below the initial message and deftly folded it back into a crane that, to G’s surprise, flew directly at her, in uneven spirals along the wall. The man traced it with a smile, propping himself back on his arms, his whole slim body and face on full display now.
God, was he good-looking.
Easily passing the physical border of the glass again, the crane crashed into Gentry’s wristcomm, dutifully delivering the message and betraying her tactical position at the same time. An amused kind of surprise showed on the young man’s face and he waved at her to show that she had been exposed. She waved back, trying to look nonchalant but probably failing miserably.
Very smooth, G, way to go.
The message read, “Is a flower only good for looking at? Not this one.”
Oooh, this boy was playing with fire!
“Hey, G,” Sereen nudged. “Have you finished reading?”
“Mm? Oh, yeah.” Gentry lied easily. She had skimmed the first couple of paragraphs and was sure she’d be able to come up with something if asked.
“Done everybody?” the deep gentle voice called from the holoboard and G’s attention snapped back to the dignified face.
The class murmured affirmatively.
“I’m sorry today’s lecture isn’t as fun as usual,” he admitted. “I must say I’m still unsure how to approach such complex topic as this one. But with your help, I hope we’ll figure it out.”
Everyone seemed to perk up.
“You just read an extract on paradoxes,” Q went on. “And you might be wondering why we are raising a philosophical topic on a rational thinking course.”
“There you go,” Sereen whispered. “He’s back to normal!”
G humphed. This did seem interesting. Was it a good idea to read the extract after all?
Q continued, “In the text, you might have encountered the definition of a paradox. Would anyone explain it with their own words?”
A raised hand and the lecturer’s nod brought some courageous soul to their feet.
“It’s when you start with the correct premises, use consistent logic but wind up with an impossible conclusion,” they said. “There are three types: falsidical, veridical and antimony-type, which are...”
“Correct,” Q smiled and nodded the person back down. It was a smile worth starting a thousand wars over.
“Now there’s a reason why I asked you to read about them. Why do you think people have been fascinated with paradoxes for such a long time?”
S raised her hand and received a kind invitation.
“I might be wrong,” she said. “But it seems that they point at the limitations of our thinking, things that seem rational but in fact aren’t. We feel that with our all-conquering logic we can solve any puzzle but it’s not always the case. Right?”
“This is very insightful,” the teacher confirmed. “It is believed by many that what’s rational is true and therefore what rationality cannot explain must be false.”
“I definitely know someone who would die on that hill,” Gentry grumbled under her breath.
“I’m sorry?” Q asked. “Is there something you wanted to add... sorry, I don’t know your name?”
Still half mad with professor Poe, Gentry stood up. “It’s G, I’m a Newcomer. I was saying how a human mind can fool itself into thinking it knows what it looks at as long as it makes sense. But in reality, it’s not there, like the sky.”
That was the only thing she remembered from that last lecture! She felt the tips of her ears heat up but the kind and considering look on Q’s face showed her gamble paid off.
“These are very insightful observations, G, why don’t we try exploring them together?” — he waived her to sit down and turned back to the class — “Five minutes to discuss how paradoxes might reveal the weaknesses of rational thinking. Send your answers to the board when you’re done.”
“Whoa, daring as usual,” Sereen smiled. “I knew you’d enjoy his class.”
“Now, consider these two questions,” Q said to another student who stood up at his hand wave. “If an unstoppable force meets an indestructible object, what is going to happen?”
The person seemed to contemplate it for a while and the teacher didn’t rush him.
“Isn’t it one of those which are impossible to solve because the existence of the one automatically disproves the existence of the other?”
Q nodded, “Correct. The second one about the barber in a small town is of the same sort. Sereen?”
S stood up too, “The one that shaves all and only men that don’t shave themselves?”
“Yes,” he confirmed. “At first, a premise like this seems perfectly reasonable, doesn’t it?”
“It does,” S responded, somewhat rashly. “But it’s clear that a barber like this cannot exist.”
“Wait, really?” Gentry whispered as Q nodded in satisfaction and urged her friend to go on.
“Yes, if we ask ourselves if this barber shaves himself. If he doesn’t, then he is part of the group which he does shave that do not shave themselves, but if he is in this group, then he does shave himself which makes it impossible for him to be this barber by definition.”
While the rest of the class was catching up with the logic, Q’s smile got only wider, more inviting.
“What does it tell us about the nature of the premise then?” he asked.
“That although it seems that it sounds logical on the surface, it is in fact nonsense and we don’t even need to hear the rest of the riddle to discard it completely,” S concluded.
The man chuckled.
“Well, I wouldn’t be that brash, to be honest, but on balance, you’re right,” he said. “If you stay after the lecture, I might recommend a couple of books on the topic. Your Newcomer friend is welcome to stay, too.”
G put up the best of the aloof fronts, “I’d be happy to, Professor.”
“Q is fine,” he smiled again and went on addressing the rest of the class that immediately exploded into a heated discussion.
***
“Basically, what I think we’re supposed to learn from this,” S concluded after a while, standing up so that everyone could hear her. “Is that before applying rationality, we have to make sure that all the premises we are dealing with are in fact realistic. Otherwise, there is no way rational thinking will help us.”
“Excellently put, as always,” Q applauded. “I’d love to see if everyone agrees or has something else to add to the discussion but our time is up. Feel free to write me a letter with your reflections on the topic.”
As interesting as the class was, the urge to leave the premises as soon as the teacher dismissed everyone seemed to be universal and applicable even to the Ashtapadans.
“I have to go now,” Sereen said. “Text you later, ok?” And with a reciprocal nod to Q, disappeared in the doors, joining the rest of the students.
Sadly, she couldn’t recall what they were talking about after the lecture, nor what titles Professor recommended for some home reading. She just hoped she didn’t make a fool of herself.
What Gentry did remember though was that after Q left as well and she came up to the panoramic window, Sereen and the mysterious flower boy were leaving the garden together. And it was hard not to notice that her new friend took off her wristcomm before they took off, and hid it in the tall grass.
2024.05.21 20:13 Ill_Pie3839 Mysterious Full Body Itch
This is basically my last hope in finding a diagnosis.
I’m a healthy 21 year old male. And have had a full body itch for nearly 6 months.
Age: 21 Gender: Male Ethnicity: British Location: West London Prior
Areas affected, listed from most affected to least:
1) Upper legs (pictured) 2) Front torso 3) Chest 4) Upper arms 5) Lower legs 6) Lower arms 7) Hands and feet 8) Back (very rare) 9) Anything from my neck upwards experiences no itch
Observations:
1) No dry skin 2) No signs of infection (blister, puss, spots) 3) Hair follicles seems irritated 4) About 5 red lumps with no opening (0.5cm diameter) 5) Some small white lumps with no opening, almost like a stinging nettle rash
Sensation: Ranges from a light itch like a feather, almost like my body hairs are being stroked, to sometimes a very aggressive stinging itch.
Things that make it worse:
1) Heat 2) Sweat 3) Wearing clothes
Things that help (but don’t eradicate):
1) Moisturiser 2) Showering 3) Steroids (prednisolone)
Events to be noted that might be credited:
1) I moved to a new location 6 months prior to itching beginning 2) I began using topical minoxidil on my head 4 months prior to itching 3) I have supplemented with protein powder and creatine for 3/4 years
Further comments:
1) My diet is varied, ie good balance of protein, carbs and fat (have not changed diet in 6+ years) 2) I consume fruit and veg daily and supplement zinc, magnesium and multivitamin 3) I do drink alcohol and smoke electronic vapes (weekend only) 4) I exercise daily 5)I am not stressed or suffer from anxiety/ any other mental disorder 6) I wash clothes regularly and shower twice daily
I have been prescribed scabies treatment 3 times and followed procedures but to no avail.
I have attached a picture of my thigh.
I am in ongoing assessment by doctors but they keep giving me basic answers and don’t seem to want to help me.
Would appreciate any tips or ideas to research as nothing I find online seems to agree to my situation.
Thank you!
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I’m a healthy 21 year old male. And have had a full body itch for nearly 6 months.
Age: 21 Gender: Male Ethnicity: British Location: West London Prior
Areas affected, listed from most affected to least:
1) Upper legs (pictured) 2) Front torso 3) Chest 4) Upper arms 5) Lower legs 6) Lower arms 7) Hands and feet 8) Back (very rare) 9) Anything from my neck upwards experiences no itch
Observations:
1) No dry skin 2) No signs of infection (blister, puss, spots) 3) Hair follicles seems irritated 4) About 5 red lumps with no opening (0.5cm diameter) 5) Some small white lumps with no opening, almost like a stinging nettle rash
Sensation: Ranges from a light itch like a feather, almost like my body hairs are being stroked, to sometimes a very aggressive stinging itch.
Things that make it worse:
1) Heat 2) Sweat 3) Wearing clothes
Things that help (but don’t eradicate):
1) Moisturiser 2) Showering 3) Steroids (prednisolone)
Events to be noted that might be credited:
1) I moved to a new location 6 months prior to itching beginning 2) I began using topical minoxidil on my head 4 months prior to itching 3) I have supplemented with protein powder and creatine for 3/4 years
Further comments:
1) My diet is varied, ie good balance of protein, carbs and fat (have not changed diet in 6+ years) 2) I consume fruit and veg daily and supplement zinc, magnesium and multivitamin 3) I do drink alcohol and smoke electronic vapes (weekend only) 4) I exercise daily 5)I am not stressed or suffer from anxiety/ any other mental disorder 6) I wash clothes regularly and shower twice daily
I have been prescribed scabies treatment 3 times and followed procedures but to no avail.
I have attached a picture of my thigh.
I am in ongoing assessment by doctors but they keep giving me basic answers and don’t seem to want to help me.
Would appreciate any tips or ideas to research as nothing I find online seems to agree to my situation.
Thank you!
2024.05.21 19:18 prettytired25 Insane flares??? Help!
Hi y'all. I'm pretty much at my wits end.
I have a dermatologist appointment today but thought I'd ask around here anyway.
Backstory: I had eczema when I was really really young, honestly so young that the only thing I remembered of it was having a patch of it on my butt and my mom applying cream to it and then never really dealing with it ever again. She thought I had eczema on my face though it appeared as white patches and I vaguely remember this but for at least a decade or more I did not have eczema. My skin was perfect, genuinely so clear I didn't have to use much product on it.
Fast forward to November of 2019; I started taking hormonal birth control and noticed within a few months that I started getting eczema patches (also was having facial rashes but I thought this was due to trying out a new skincare) I went to the dermatologist who prescribed me Triamcinolone 0.1% ointment for my body rashes. I don't ever EVER remember using steroids much. I'd use it one to two days, and would stop when it starts to fade. Anyway my eczema was pretty lowkey in general and in 2021, we adopted a cat. I did notice my eczema worsening slightly ever since getting my cat but was managing with Triamcinolone (I think at this point my dermatologist prescribed me a tub of it I think December of 2021)
Again, I don't use steroid much and when I do I think it's really just for emergencies (my eczema was genuinely such a secondary aspect of my life I don't even remember much of how I managed it other than letting it ride and maybe applying steroid when needed). I remember the tub expired and I hadn't used even half of the ointment. I was also prescribed Mometasone and Fluoccionide? But I never used either of them as I didn't feel comfortable to.
In September of 2022, I caught COVID while overseas and it caused a pretty gnarly flare on the inner side of my elbows. Since I was overseas I just managed with moisturizing but I remember applying steroid when I came home. We adopted a second cat later this year.
Since then I think my eczema HAVE gotten worse, but there was a period of at least 6 months where I wasn't using steroid creams at all because I was either just dealing with it or it was barely there.
Fast forward to 2023.
I noticed a rash on the top of my right hand that I was initially managing with just moisturizing. But I remember having such intense itch on this rash that I kept itching, and at one point I itched with my shirt and it caused it to be infected. It was so gnarly, bright red, oozing, literally would not stop oozing, painful. I went back to my dermatologist 5 days later when I realized that oh this might be worse than just a regular eczema. She gave me Mupirocin and another tube of Triamcinolone (since my previous one expired) as well as a course of Doxycycline. I used the Mupirocin as directed for I think 10 days, and was not yet using Triamcinolone as I was worried about using it when it looked like there were still open wounds on it. I didn't finish my Doxy course because it was giving me horrible stomach pains. I came back to the dermatologist January 3rd and she told me it was OK to use Triamcinolone twice daily up to two weeks.
At this point I was already having eczema rash on my arms as well and some on my back but I don't think I was using Triamcinolone much on them (I'm pretty sporadic with using the steroid, I never really committed to the full 2 weeks)
Now, this is where things became a doozy.
January 5th: Caught strep, had difficulty breathing and had to go to urgent care. I was prescribed antibiotics, Prednisone (20mg, twice daily for 5 days), and Albuterol. I had asthma when I was younger and it's almost like it came back when I caught strep. My eczema was calm during this time and I thought it was because it rained a lot this week but now I realized it may be the Prednisone. Could not remember if I was using Triamcinolone as well on my hand during this time.
Sometime in early February: Went for a run and literally rolled my ankle so bad. Unrelated to everything else but my body sustained injury and looking back at old pictures I was starting to get patches of eczema on my legs.
Then I caught what felt like the flu in mid February and this is the first time my eczema flared to my face. My left eye was half swollen but at this time I thought it was from my sinus being blocked as it went away in a few days (though the rash stayed).
Early March: Got admitted to the hospital from Appendicitis. I spent 3 nights at the hospital and my eczema was literally non existent. No itchiness, just intense dryness but nothing else. I remember my friend noting my face was super dry but my rashes were slowly drying out. To be fair I was in so much pain the first day I was knocked out most the time from the pain medication they gave me and I was on a couple antibiotics due to the infection.
I came home from the hospital and this is when things start to really get insane. I got home, laid in bed, and immediately could not stop itching my neck and body. My face became swollen the next day but I was unable to take allergy meds because I was on antibiotics and had to wait for that course to be done. That eventually settled out.
I figured maybe I was having an allergic reaction to the cats (and thought maybe my mattress too, we had vacuumed it a few times and I suspected it disturbed the dust mites inside). I slept outside and on an air mattress for I think a few days, if not up to a week. The cats were still sleeping with me at this time and I was somewhat itchy but it wasn't the worst. Then I decided I was going to sleep in the bedroom again and this caused the worst flare I had ever ever EVER gone through. My face became so swollen, my left eye swollen again and it was oozing (this had NEVER happened to me before other than my infected hand) I don't know why this oozed since I never scratched my face, and my inner elbows, wrists and top of right hand got so red and puffy. At this point too my eczema on my right hand was starting to spread towards my palm. These areas also got pretty dry especially on my face. I called Teladoc Dermatology and they prescribed me Mupirocin for the oozing, Tacrolimus for the inflammation on my face and Triamcinolone for the body. He told me to apply Mupirocin first until the oozing calms, then stop and apply the other ointments.
At this point I had become SO SO SO terrified of TSW. It was all over my Tik Tok, my algorithm, I couldn't stop thinking and worrying about it and fearing that this flare is because I'm going through it. He told me to use Triamcinolone for twice daily for two weeks, then once daily for two weeks, then every other day for two weeks to help prevent rebound. I only used Triamcinolone twice daily for 5 days, then I did once daily for a few more days and by the time I saw my current dermatologist, I was using it every other day (I essentially tried to taper within the two weeks).
My current derma prescribed me Clobetasol and told me to mix 2oz of Clobetasol with 7.5oz of Vanicream or Cerave and smear myself in it once a day at night for one week, then once a day at night every other day for the second week. It was a very controlled instruction.
BUT I was SO afraid of TSW that I did not do this.
Instead, I took a one week break and I did 3 weeks of Triamcinolone, and even then I did it sporadically. I did about 10 days of once daily and then the second half I did twice daily. When I started doing twice daily was when I finally saw some improvements.
The problem is it has been a week since I last used any steroids and I have rebounded. Although my eczema rash genuinely looks so weird and I am having the dermatologist look at it properly today. My arms are constantly dry, my right hand (the problem spot since December) now have what looks like blisters on them and I never have eczema that look like this even though it's apparently common. The frustrating thing is that it feels like my eczema just keeps spreading. They are full body and it's freaking me out because it looks as if I have TSW even though I don't think I ever used steroids for that long at all, and I was only prescribed it back in 2020.
To be fair I thought I should've committed to the Clobetasol treatment because then we can see if the strongest steroid worked or not but I felt like I was going to flare again anyway and didn't want to use something really strong only for it to not work.
I had an allergy test done and I am allergic to both species of dust mites, dogs, cats, along with some other environmental things. I just don't understand why I am only now flaring uncontrollably like this. I am 95% covered in eczema. Either spots or just straight up long red rash. I am taking antihistamines daily and have been taking Probiotic pills pretty consistently (partly because I was on so many antibiotics back to back). I've been using Hyphocolorus Acid Spray as well.
On Sunday night, I tried to sleep over at my friend's place who did not have cats to test and see if my cats are my main trigger and I kept waking up itching myself, both my arms and legs and my chin and neck started oozing again. Which was INSANE as I did not itch either of them. The oozing on both have mostly stopped (I've only used Mupirocin and Vaseline to help control the infection and moisturize) but I just don't understand.
I'm scared, I have never had eczema become so severe so fast and I'm genuinely so scared. Something feels wrong but I don't know what it is. The way my eczema looks look like a combination of an allergic reaction and just a rash but I don't understand how I can have such an intense allergic reaction towards things I've been around all the time. We've lived in the same place since June of last year and the only thing I can think of is that we had the heater on almost daily in the winter and we found out end of April that our heater is incredibly dusty.
I'm getting my IUD removed next week as well as I'm confident birth control has something to do with my eczema coming back, and I plan to get allergy shots.
I'm just tired, it's consumed my life and it's causing me a lot of health anxiety. I look so genuinely terrible I can't even understand it.
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I have a dermatologist appointment today but thought I'd ask around here anyway.
Backstory: I had eczema when I was really really young, honestly so young that the only thing I remembered of it was having a patch of it on my butt and my mom applying cream to it and then never really dealing with it ever again. She thought I had eczema on my face though it appeared as white patches and I vaguely remember this but for at least a decade or more I did not have eczema. My skin was perfect, genuinely so clear I didn't have to use much product on it.
Fast forward to November of 2019; I started taking hormonal birth control and noticed within a few months that I started getting eczema patches (also was having facial rashes but I thought this was due to trying out a new skincare) I went to the dermatologist who prescribed me Triamcinolone 0.1% ointment for my body rashes. I don't ever EVER remember using steroids much. I'd use it one to two days, and would stop when it starts to fade. Anyway my eczema was pretty lowkey in general and in 2021, we adopted a cat. I did notice my eczema worsening slightly ever since getting my cat but was managing with Triamcinolone (I think at this point my dermatologist prescribed me a tub of it I think December of 2021)
Again, I don't use steroid much and when I do I think it's really just for emergencies (my eczema was genuinely such a secondary aspect of my life I don't even remember much of how I managed it other than letting it ride and maybe applying steroid when needed). I remember the tub expired and I hadn't used even half of the ointment. I was also prescribed Mometasone and Fluoccionide? But I never used either of them as I didn't feel comfortable to.
In September of 2022, I caught COVID while overseas and it caused a pretty gnarly flare on the inner side of my elbows. Since I was overseas I just managed with moisturizing but I remember applying steroid when I came home. We adopted a second cat later this year.
Since then I think my eczema HAVE gotten worse, but there was a period of at least 6 months where I wasn't using steroid creams at all because I was either just dealing with it or it was barely there.
Fast forward to 2023.
I noticed a rash on the top of my right hand that I was initially managing with just moisturizing. But I remember having such intense itch on this rash that I kept itching, and at one point I itched with my shirt and it caused it to be infected. It was so gnarly, bright red, oozing, literally would not stop oozing, painful. I went back to my dermatologist 5 days later when I realized that oh this might be worse than just a regular eczema. She gave me Mupirocin and another tube of Triamcinolone (since my previous one expired) as well as a course of Doxycycline. I used the Mupirocin as directed for I think 10 days, and was not yet using Triamcinolone as I was worried about using it when it looked like there were still open wounds on it. I didn't finish my Doxy course because it was giving me horrible stomach pains. I came back to the dermatologist January 3rd and she told me it was OK to use Triamcinolone twice daily up to two weeks.
At this point I was already having eczema rash on my arms as well and some on my back but I don't think I was using Triamcinolone much on them (I'm pretty sporadic with using the steroid, I never really committed to the full 2 weeks)
Now, this is where things became a doozy.
January 5th: Caught strep, had difficulty breathing and had to go to urgent care. I was prescribed antibiotics, Prednisone (20mg, twice daily for 5 days), and Albuterol. I had asthma when I was younger and it's almost like it came back when I caught strep. My eczema was calm during this time and I thought it was because it rained a lot this week but now I realized it may be the Prednisone. Could not remember if I was using Triamcinolone as well on my hand during this time.
Sometime in early February: Went for a run and literally rolled my ankle so bad. Unrelated to everything else but my body sustained injury and looking back at old pictures I was starting to get patches of eczema on my legs.
Then I caught what felt like the flu in mid February and this is the first time my eczema flared to my face. My left eye was half swollen but at this time I thought it was from my sinus being blocked as it went away in a few days (though the rash stayed).
Early March: Got admitted to the hospital from Appendicitis. I spent 3 nights at the hospital and my eczema was literally non existent. No itchiness, just intense dryness but nothing else. I remember my friend noting my face was super dry but my rashes were slowly drying out. To be fair I was in so much pain the first day I was knocked out most the time from the pain medication they gave me and I was on a couple antibiotics due to the infection.
I came home from the hospital and this is when things start to really get insane. I got home, laid in bed, and immediately could not stop itching my neck and body. My face became swollen the next day but I was unable to take allergy meds because I was on antibiotics and had to wait for that course to be done. That eventually settled out.
I figured maybe I was having an allergic reaction to the cats (and thought maybe my mattress too, we had vacuumed it a few times and I suspected it disturbed the dust mites inside). I slept outside and on an air mattress for I think a few days, if not up to a week. The cats were still sleeping with me at this time and I was somewhat itchy but it wasn't the worst. Then I decided I was going to sleep in the bedroom again and this caused the worst flare I had ever ever EVER gone through. My face became so swollen, my left eye swollen again and it was oozing (this had NEVER happened to me before other than my infected hand) I don't know why this oozed since I never scratched my face, and my inner elbows, wrists and top of right hand got so red and puffy. At this point too my eczema on my right hand was starting to spread towards my palm. These areas also got pretty dry especially on my face. I called Teladoc Dermatology and they prescribed me Mupirocin for the oozing, Tacrolimus for the inflammation on my face and Triamcinolone for the body. He told me to apply Mupirocin first until the oozing calms, then stop and apply the other ointments.
At this point I had become SO SO SO terrified of TSW. It was all over my Tik Tok, my algorithm, I couldn't stop thinking and worrying about it and fearing that this flare is because I'm going through it. He told me to use Triamcinolone for twice daily for two weeks, then once daily for two weeks, then every other day for two weeks to help prevent rebound. I only used Triamcinolone twice daily for 5 days, then I did once daily for a few more days and by the time I saw my current dermatologist, I was using it every other day (I essentially tried to taper within the two weeks).
My current derma prescribed me Clobetasol and told me to mix 2oz of Clobetasol with 7.5oz of Vanicream or Cerave and smear myself in it once a day at night for one week, then once a day at night every other day for the second week. It was a very controlled instruction.
BUT I was SO afraid of TSW that I did not do this.
Instead, I took a one week break and I did 3 weeks of Triamcinolone, and even then I did it sporadically. I did about 10 days of once daily and then the second half I did twice daily. When I started doing twice daily was when I finally saw some improvements.
The problem is it has been a week since I last used any steroids and I have rebounded. Although my eczema rash genuinely looks so weird and I am having the dermatologist look at it properly today. My arms are constantly dry, my right hand (the problem spot since December) now have what looks like blisters on them and I never have eczema that look like this even though it's apparently common. The frustrating thing is that it feels like my eczema just keeps spreading. They are full body and it's freaking me out because it looks as if I have TSW even though I don't think I ever used steroids for that long at all, and I was only prescribed it back in 2020.
To be fair I thought I should've committed to the Clobetasol treatment because then we can see if the strongest steroid worked or not but I felt like I was going to flare again anyway and didn't want to use something really strong only for it to not work.
I had an allergy test done and I am allergic to both species of dust mites, dogs, cats, along with some other environmental things. I just don't understand why I am only now flaring uncontrollably like this. I am 95% covered in eczema. Either spots or just straight up long red rash. I am taking antihistamines daily and have been taking Probiotic pills pretty consistently (partly because I was on so many antibiotics back to back). I've been using Hyphocolorus Acid Spray as well.
On Sunday night, I tried to sleep over at my friend's place who did not have cats to test and see if my cats are my main trigger and I kept waking up itching myself, both my arms and legs and my chin and neck started oozing again. Which was INSANE as I did not itch either of them. The oozing on both have mostly stopped (I've only used Mupirocin and Vaseline to help control the infection and moisturize) but I just don't understand.
I'm scared, I have never had eczema become so severe so fast and I'm genuinely so scared. Something feels wrong but I don't know what it is. The way my eczema looks look like a combination of an allergic reaction and just a rash but I don't understand how I can have such an intense allergic reaction towards things I've been around all the time. We've lived in the same place since June of last year and the only thing I can think of is that we had the heater on almost daily in the winter and we found out end of April that our heater is incredibly dusty.
I'm getting my IUD removed next week as well as I'm confident birth control has something to do with my eczema coming back, and I plan to get allergy shots.
I'm just tired, it's consumed my life and it's causing me a lot of health anxiety. I look so genuinely terrible I can't even understand it.
2024.05.21 17:47 mermaidlawyer Has anyone experienced PMLE for the first time while pregnant?
Hi all- I am 35 (F), and 22 weeks pregnant with my second child. Over the past 2 weeks, I've had 2 outbreaks of what I suspect is PMLE- first on my arms, then later on my chest and neck. I went to the dermatologist for the arms, because it was so itchy and I wanted to know what was happening. He suspected PMLE based on the appearance of it, where it presented on my arms, and the fact that we couldn't identify a substance that could be causing contact dermatitis or some other itchy rash. I sat in the sun for a little while this past weekend to read my book (when my arms were mostly healed up, still itchy but looking much better 9-10 days after they flared up initially) and I wore a ton of sunscreen all over thinking that would help prevent any recurrence. Now, my chest and neck have the same rash. So I'm thinking that PMLE (especially after reading about the difficulty that others have with sunscreen not always helping that much) is a pretty likely culprit.
Has anyone else here ever experienced their first PMLE reaction while pregnant? I'm wondering if the timing is just a coincidence, and this will be a recurring issue for me, OR whether it's wrapped up in hormones or my skin being extra sensitive right now. I was pregnant during the same time of year 2 years ago (with my first) and I had none of these issues.
Thanks in advance for any input or advice!
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Has anyone else here ever experienced their first PMLE reaction while pregnant? I'm wondering if the timing is just a coincidence, and this will be a recurring issue for me, OR whether it's wrapped up in hormones or my skin being extra sensitive right now. I was pregnant during the same time of year 2 years ago (with my first) and I had none of these issues.
Thanks in advance for any input or advice!
2024.05.21 17:02 Haistur Swelling in my right temple, jaw, and neck. Doc said it might be shingles. I've never had chicken pox and have been vaccinated
27F - Four days ago I woke up with swelling and pain in my right temple, jaw, and neck. It also hurt to open my mouth and chew. I also had what looked like the start of a rash on the right side of my neck as well.
The ER doc said it might be the start of shingles and prescribed three days of Prednisone. I've never had Chicken Pox and have been vaccinated against it as well.
I also tried Advil, Tylenol, Benedryl, and Claritin. Nothing seems to make it feel better but it hasn't gotten worse, either.
I brought up giant cell arteritis, but they said I was too young and dismissed that quickly.
Any ideas? I have an appointment with my primary care doctor but that's over two weeks from now and I'm worried about waiting that long.
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The ER doc said it might be the start of shingles and prescribed three days of Prednisone. I've never had Chicken Pox and have been vaccinated against it as well.
I also tried Advil, Tylenol, Benedryl, and Claritin. Nothing seems to make it feel better but it hasn't gotten worse, either.
I brought up giant cell arteritis, but they said I was too young and dismissed that quickly.
Any ideas? I have an appointment with my primary care doctor but that's over two weeks from now and I'm worried about waiting that long.
2024.05.21 16:23 kissanpoikanen Help needed - heat intolerance and nonenal/aging odor
I am 42 and still having periods, but I am experiencing some signs of menopause - the hair is almost fully grey and I have even less tolerance left with heat than the little I ever used to have. I’m from a Nordic country and thus not used to heat waves or high temperatures and this summer I will travel to US to much more warmer environment.
Even though I don’t yet have night sweat or hot flashes, any temperature over 70 F (21 C) degrees makes me super uncomfortable. It has been like this my whole life - I feel like my body is slowly shutting itself down when it’s too hot. During the summer I am participating on a sitting retreat for a week (outside, in a tent) and I assume that the temperature can go as high as 95-100 F (35-37 C). I have no idea how to cope. Any advice, any help, any guide or tips?
I’m sorry this sounds so whiny! I’m just hoping that I could find some kind of tools and guidance to ease myself. The heat makes me itchy, I already have rash (allergic/atopic eczema and dry and sensitive skin) and sweat makes it so much worse. Are those small air fans good? I think I saw years back some kind of scarf you could put in the freezer beforehand, has anyone any experience of those? Maybe I could just sit with ice packs against the neck, under the arms, and in the groin area…
And then there is the stink. I think I have started to smell bad. It’s not happening every day, but I assume it could be nonenal, and I was curious if you fellow wonderful women here would have some experience with persimmon soap/products? Before last year I never used to have much body odor and didn’t even need deodorant most of the time. Now I use deodorant daily in fear of maybe smelling bad. My kids and husband have assured that I don’t smell bad, but I still can smell myself. Especially under the breasts and on the groin there is this new scent I definitely didn’t have couple of years ago. I shower every day (which is not good for dry and allergic skin) and always have clean clothes, but this is causing me a lot of stress. I have been using glycolic acid (from The Ordinary) and it is helping little, mostly with armpits. But it’s not taking away all the smell from the groin area and under boobs - maybe because I don’t put deodorant to those areas. Any tips for this embarrassing problem?
Thank you for any kind of help!
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Even though I don’t yet have night sweat or hot flashes, any temperature over 70 F (21 C) degrees makes me super uncomfortable. It has been like this my whole life - I feel like my body is slowly shutting itself down when it’s too hot. During the summer I am participating on a sitting retreat for a week (outside, in a tent) and I assume that the temperature can go as high as 95-100 F (35-37 C). I have no idea how to cope. Any advice, any help, any guide or tips?
I’m sorry this sounds so whiny! I’m just hoping that I could find some kind of tools and guidance to ease myself. The heat makes me itchy, I already have rash (allergic/atopic eczema and dry and sensitive skin) and sweat makes it so much worse. Are those small air fans good? I think I saw years back some kind of scarf you could put in the freezer beforehand, has anyone any experience of those? Maybe I could just sit with ice packs against the neck, under the arms, and in the groin area…
And then there is the stink. I think I have started to smell bad. It’s not happening every day, but I assume it could be nonenal, and I was curious if you fellow wonderful women here would have some experience with persimmon soap/products? Before last year I never used to have much body odor and didn’t even need deodorant most of the time. Now I use deodorant daily in fear of maybe smelling bad. My kids and husband have assured that I don’t smell bad, but I still can smell myself. Especially under the breasts and on the groin there is this new scent I definitely didn’t have couple of years ago. I shower every day (which is not good for dry and allergic skin) and always have clean clothes, but this is causing me a lot of stress. I have been using glycolic acid (from The Ordinary) and it is helping little, mostly with armpits. But it’s not taking away all the smell from the groin area and under boobs - maybe because I don’t put deodorant to those areas. Any tips for this embarrassing problem?
Thank you for any kind of help!
2024.05.21 15:46 wereheretobeus Rash on neck
 | What could this neck rash be? It has appeared before in a different spot on the neck and gone away within a couple of days but seems to appear quite suddenly, not itchy or sore submitted by wereheretobeus to DermatologyQuestions [link] [comments] |
2024.05.21 14:29 VariousRain631 Does Sutter Urgent Care accept UC SHIP?
My body has been experiencing rashes and nonstop itching since sunday night, and I’ve been very uncomfortable with it. It doesn’t stop itching, and my body is now full with red marks. Yes, whole body is itching (head, underarms, chest, back, upper thighs, arms, feet, belly, legs, and neck). I scheduled an appointment with my PCP at wellness center, but it’s not until the 30th. I’m afraid if I go to urgent care, I might pay a lot of money. I just really need to not scratch my body anymore. I couldn’t even focus studying because my attention is solely focused on my itching body. If ever Sutter Urgent Care accepts UC SHIP, do you think I would need to pay a lot?
PS: I am sure they do, not just sure how things work. I might give them a call later this day. Just really worried about the co-pay because this is something that I am not prepared for 😩
Edit: I have a midterm today. Thank God I have accommodations, because if not? I would be itching all throughout the exam and I don’t want to make the person next to me uncomfortable.
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PS: I am sure they do, not just sure how things work. I might give them a call later this day. Just really worried about the co-pay because this is something that I am not prepared for 😩
Edit: I have a midterm today. Thank God I have accommodations, because if not? I would be itching all throughout the exam and I don’t want to make the person next to me uncomfortable.
2024.05.21 13:02 AdComfortable5453 Suncream for rosacea/spot prone/allergic skin/dermatitis
Hi all, Looking for both face and body suggestions for sunscreen -UK.
I'm 49 and have always had sensitive skin but it's got worse the last couple of years (along with getting food allergies to almonds and wheat and rice) and I seem to have now developed perhaps a sun allergy? Ie I get red itchy blotches/rash on my chest and neck and arms when I wear sunscreen and it looks awful. But just generally my chest area is always blotchy from normal products (even natural ones) and I get lots of large bumps (not spots)as well if I put anything oily on at all but my skin there looks dry if I don't moisturise it So...
BODY sunscreen - I've tried a few in the part including:-
No7 soltan sensitive (itchy) Tropic (brings me out in hives 😭 ) Green People (horrible to put on and leaves skin dry and white cast) Bondi sands hydra (itchy) Piz buin sensitive
Currently trying Emotopic but that takes an age to rub in and it's a small tube so the jury is still out on this one.
I was looking at the eucerin one. Im pretty sure I've had it before but there is a gel cream which I don't think I've tried but some people say it stings as it's got alcohol in??
FACE - (need something suitable for rosacea and for spot prone skin) no almonds/rice or wheat in.
I do use the rodalique one for rosacea which is lovely and doesn't give me spots but it's tinted and sometimes I just want a plain one to top up at home so I don't get super orange from multiple layers 😂 (it's anti redness).
Tried KALM but that's too orange for me and again, tinted.
Just bought the new boots no 7 future renew defence shield but omg, I get so many spots from it 😭 so now cannot use it.
Thank you so much 🤞🤞
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I'm 49 and have always had sensitive skin but it's got worse the last couple of years (along with getting food allergies to almonds and wheat and rice) and I seem to have now developed perhaps a sun allergy? Ie I get red itchy blotches/rash on my chest and neck and arms when I wear sunscreen and it looks awful. But just generally my chest area is always blotchy from normal products (even natural ones) and I get lots of large bumps (not spots)as well if I put anything oily on at all but my skin there looks dry if I don't moisturise it So...
BODY sunscreen - I've tried a few in the part including:-
No7 soltan sensitive (itchy) Tropic (brings me out in hives 😭 ) Green People (horrible to put on and leaves skin dry and white cast) Bondi sands hydra (itchy) Piz buin sensitive
Currently trying Emotopic but that takes an age to rub in and it's a small tube so the jury is still out on this one.
I was looking at the eucerin one. Im pretty sure I've had it before but there is a gel cream which I don't think I've tried but some people say it stings as it's got alcohol in??
FACE - (need something suitable for rosacea and for spot prone skin) no almonds/rice or wheat in.
I do use the rodalique one for rosacea which is lovely and doesn't give me spots but it's tinted and sometimes I just want a plain one to top up at home so I don't get super orange from multiple layers 😂 (it's anti redness).
Tried KALM but that's too orange for me and again, tinted.
Just bought the new boots no 7 future renew defence shield but omg, I get so many spots from it 😭 so now cannot use it.
Thank you so much 🤞🤞
2024.05.21 12:56 SpiritualDysfunction Can rosacea really cause this kind of flare up?
(Seeking opinions based on personal experience, not diagnosis)
Long story short: I've had Sebhorric dermatitis and eczema flares since teen years. The past month I've had two random allergic like reactions presenting on my face (eye swelling/hot and red face/rash on neck).
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Long story short: I've had Sebhorric dermatitis and eczema flares since teen years. The past month I've had two random allergic like reactions presenting on my face (eye swelling/hot and red face/rash on neck).
- The first instance, the doctor suggested it likely wasn't allergy if I hadn't changed anything and said that (what I thought was adult acne) was in fact rosacea and he thought this allergic looking reaction was actually a rosacea flare. He prescribed doxycycline.
- I've been on doxycycline and the pustules have improved, but yesterday morning I had another "flare" (pictured). The doc has doubled down on it being rosacea and has prescribed 1% Ivermectin Cream.
2024.05.21 12:16 Significant_Ice856 ATI RN MEDICAL SURGICAL 2023 WITH NGN (100 questions) level 3. DM!! nyalandojulian@gmail.com
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2024.05.21 10:10 fxjhn Insights on this
May i ask ut thoughts, 2 weeks after my last encounter. I got tested for hiv and it was negative.the problem is since the day after we had sex of that guy, there's a presence of mucus like or yeast in my stool as of the moment, i dont have any rash or other symptoms. All i have is (yeast presence on stool based on stool analysis required by my doctor) one time i also had blood in my stool but the blood is just one time , i also kinda looking for other possible reason for this and i saw that diabetes can be related to this.i hope to get ur insights to this. In addition to this, rn im experiencing like something is in my throat but i can't release it.
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2024.05.21 07:39 dehydratedhouseplant I went to the doctor requesting more Lyme testing and he tested me for HIV
Ok soo.. this has been such a shit show trying to be taken seriously about my symptoms. No I didn’t have a bullseye rash but I had all the symptoms for a few days and still some fatigue. I went to my doctor who only tested me for 2 types of Lyme variants … since I know nothing about Lyme testing I thought this was normal… they came back negative which means nothing as most of you know since testing early on for Lyme is unreliable. I insisted I wanted doxy just to be safe and he refused to prescribe it to me. He instead did another physical exam on me and referred me back to Labcorp to get more testing done for Lyme. I was surprised because I thought he tested me for all Lyme variants already? Nope. On my way to get tested I noticed on the lists of tests he sent out , one was for HIV. I was shocked because we NEVER had any conversation about this ?! Like this never came up. He’s been super dismissive and condescending. I’m on Medicaid so my options are limited when it comes to finding a primary care doctor in my area. They had to draw 6 huge vials of blood this time and I’m assuming a lot of that was for the HIV test. Is this ethical ?? That he added that test without telling me or having a conversation about it ?? Now I’m all paranoid and anxious waiting for my test results , it’s been days and I still haven’t heard anything. Wtf. Im really upset about this situation and being treated like this. After my last visit with him before I got my recent blood tests done , I went straight to urgent care determined to get doxycycline since my doctor still refused to give it to me. They gave it to me but only for 10 days. The first day I threw it up cuz I stupidly didn’t eat before taking it. So now I only have 9 days worth which just seems so pointless. I asked my friend who lives in Mexico to send me some but they didn’t end up sending it …. lots of people on here have sent me links of where to get it online. I’m going to check that out next I guess. I just feel like giving up though. Meh.
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2024.05.21 06:01 Moist_Psychology8635 Is this Herpes or dermatitis?
Exactly one week since I noticed these rashes on my buttocks and inner thighs. Could this be herpes or just dermatitis or others? This is the first time Im having these so Im nervous. The rashes arent itchy or painful at all. I am applying hydrocortisone cream to lessen its redness.
I also got tested for HIV and syphilis yesterday. Both came out nonreactive so I think theyre out of the question.
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I also got tested for HIV and syphilis yesterday. Both came out nonreactive so I think theyre out of the question.
2024.05.21 05:52 PursePractioner What could be going on with my 6m old’s skin?
 | we have an appointment with her pediatrician tomorrow afternoon The red area on her upper lip seems to align with where she rests her hand when she sucks on her thumb. She’s had a few small red spots come and go before, but this is by far the worst it has looked. She also has a rash in one of the folds of her neck that led us to visit urgent care last weekend. It looks different than the red spots and has improved significantly with frequent applications of Aquaphor. She is teething and has been drooling a lot so we think that may be a contributing factor, but I’m not sure whether this new rash could be related. Obviously it doesn’t seem to bother her, but I’m still concerned! submitted by PursePractioner to DermatologyQuestions [link] [comments] |
2024.05.21 05:13 Low-Mulberry-8230 Backed taxes and health problems. I don’t know what to do.
I don’t really know where to begin, but I’ll just start off my saying I’ve been into LOA for many years probably close to a decade. Researching the works of Florence Scovel Shinn, Neville Goddard, Helene Hadsell, etc. I’ve had some successful manifestations but when it comes to large things (important things) it’s seems I have had trouble bringing those things to life. Let me share some of my story and struggles as maybe that could help shine a light to any blockages that I’m not seeing.
One thing is my finances, I am severely behind paying taxes (I’ve never filed or paid since I was 18, I’m 27 now) and know I need to get caught up somehow but don’t know where to start. I work a serving job where on average I’ve made $48k-$52k per year and get paid $2.13 an hour. But because of my backed taxes they garnish my wages, not that it really effects me as I get cash every night, but it keeps me from getting an hourly job during the day because I know the job will be garnished. I also am having trouble renewing my liquor license because of my backed taxes which puts my job in jeopardy. I’ve moved into a friends apartment and am staying in their sunroom to try to cut down on living expenses but because of the economy it’s been difficult to try to get ahead.
Second thing my health. A few years ago I tested positive for HIV, but because I “make too much” I didn’t qualify for any assistance and because of my backed taxes I can’t sign up for the affordable care act and I can’t get health insurance otherwise because it’s considered a “pre-existing condition” so health insurance won’t insure me for care. I try to eat healthy and eat organically and take vitamins; but it gets expensive and I get tired of taking 20 vitamins morning and night just to feel normal. If I don’t take all the vitamins/supplements I feel tired all the time, I get sick easily, I get skin rashes. So because I can’t get treatment, taking all these vitamins is the only way I can treat myself and see/feel results. Sometimes I feel so tired I have to call off from work; which isn’t great because I need to make more money to try to get on top of my finances, but I realize rest is really important too, especially with having HIV. Because of this disease my teeth are also experiencing rot and decay, even though I brush and floss daily and use a water flosser. 3 of my teeth have large cavities (holes to the pulp) which also cause me a lot of pain daily.
I’ve been visualizing and trying to manifest a large windfall of money for a while as I see it as a way to solve a lot of my problems. I know money can’t fix everything in life; but it can help. If I can manifest a large enough sum of money I can pay off all my tax debt, get the healthcare I need, and get my teeth fixed,get my own place, amongst other things in my life.
As far as career, I want to be a designer for my job, both in fashion and home design, and I’m rather good at it (not to sound conceited) but because I’m tired a lot of the time because of my untreated disease it makes it harder to pursue those things while maintaining my serving job that provides me my income. My brain isn’t as sharp as it used to be I’ve noticed, not sure if that’s linked to the HIV or not, I used to have more stamina and drive, I used to be more social and outgoing, but I just don’t have the energy to be myself anymore, which makes me sad.
I really don’t know where to go, or what to do. All I ask for is for my previous backed taxes to be resolved, access to healthcare so I can feel better, getting my teeth fixed, getting my own place, and getting my energy back so I can focus on the things in life that bring me joy & fulfillment. When I go to bed I visualize perfect health, wealth and happiness. I just wonder when it will come my way.
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One thing is my finances, I am severely behind paying taxes (I’ve never filed or paid since I was 18, I’m 27 now) and know I need to get caught up somehow but don’t know where to start. I work a serving job where on average I’ve made $48k-$52k per year and get paid $2.13 an hour. But because of my backed taxes they garnish my wages, not that it really effects me as I get cash every night, but it keeps me from getting an hourly job during the day because I know the job will be garnished. I also am having trouble renewing my liquor license because of my backed taxes which puts my job in jeopardy. I’ve moved into a friends apartment and am staying in their sunroom to try to cut down on living expenses but because of the economy it’s been difficult to try to get ahead.
Second thing my health. A few years ago I tested positive for HIV, but because I “make too much” I didn’t qualify for any assistance and because of my backed taxes I can’t sign up for the affordable care act and I can’t get health insurance otherwise because it’s considered a “pre-existing condition” so health insurance won’t insure me for care. I try to eat healthy and eat organically and take vitamins; but it gets expensive and I get tired of taking 20 vitamins morning and night just to feel normal. If I don’t take all the vitamins/supplements I feel tired all the time, I get sick easily, I get skin rashes. So because I can’t get treatment, taking all these vitamins is the only way I can treat myself and see/feel results. Sometimes I feel so tired I have to call off from work; which isn’t great because I need to make more money to try to get on top of my finances, but I realize rest is really important too, especially with having HIV. Because of this disease my teeth are also experiencing rot and decay, even though I brush and floss daily and use a water flosser. 3 of my teeth have large cavities (holes to the pulp) which also cause me a lot of pain daily.
I’ve been visualizing and trying to manifest a large windfall of money for a while as I see it as a way to solve a lot of my problems. I know money can’t fix everything in life; but it can help. If I can manifest a large enough sum of money I can pay off all my tax debt, get the healthcare I need, and get my teeth fixed,get my own place, amongst other things in my life.
As far as career, I want to be a designer for my job, both in fashion and home design, and I’m rather good at it (not to sound conceited) but because I’m tired a lot of the time because of my untreated disease it makes it harder to pursue those things while maintaining my serving job that provides me my income. My brain isn’t as sharp as it used to be I’ve noticed, not sure if that’s linked to the HIV or not, I used to have more stamina and drive, I used to be more social and outgoing, but I just don’t have the energy to be myself anymore, which makes me sad.
I really don’t know where to go, or what to do. All I ask for is for my previous backed taxes to be resolved, access to healthcare so I can feel better, getting my teeth fixed, getting my own place, and getting my energy back so I can focus on the things in life that bring me joy & fulfillment. When I go to bed I visualize perfect health, wealth and happiness. I just wonder when it will come my way.
2024.05.21 04:16 sunbathingturtle207 Toddler seemingly allergic to sunscreen- help?
Hi. So my 14 month old appears to be allergic to sunscreen. We have tried babyganics, copper tone pure & simple, aveeno, and all leave her with patchy scaly eczema like rash on her arms, neck, and face. I'm assuming allergy because she has the same reaction to polyester. They have to use it at daycare, and I just don't know what to do because it's messing with her skin and I know it must hurt, because I am also really sensitive to sunscreen (I can't even apply it to my kids, I have to use sprays and have someone else do it if I have someone around to help), and also have eczema like her.
I do okay with SPF oils, but I'm only finding SPF 30 except for $50 brands from sephora. Would SPF 30 oil be okay to try given her reaction to everything else? She's so fair.... but her skin is a disaster right now and I need a solution.
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I do okay with SPF oils, but I'm only finding SPF 30 except for $50 brands from sephora. Would SPF 30 oil be okay to try given her reaction to everything else? She's so fair.... but her skin is a disaster right now and I need a solution.
2024.05.21 04:15 p0ttedplantz What is this rash
3, Male, non smoker, 9 apgar, no medications, otherwise healthy
My son presented with a rash on both his biceps about 10 days ago. The rash did not itch, was not raised, no texture but does blanche. It was perfectly symmetrical; appearing in the same place at the same time on opposite sides of his body. It would appear and disappear all day. It eventually spread to his shoulders down to his hands after about a week. It then moved to his jaw, and cheeks, its now on his neck, legs and butt. So far his trunk is still clear. We will hit 2 weeks on Wednesday the 22nd with this rash. The original patch has since disappeared but is outlined with the original rash pattern (see photo). His skin looks tanned/discolored where the original rash was (we havent been able to “tan” yet where we live). No fever, lymphnodes not swollen, is acting completely normal.
Link to image
https://imgur.com/a/inbYkOQ
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My son presented with a rash on both his biceps about 10 days ago. The rash did not itch, was not raised, no texture but does blanche. It was perfectly symmetrical; appearing in the same place at the same time on opposite sides of his body. It would appear and disappear all day. It eventually spread to his shoulders down to his hands after about a week. It then moved to his jaw, and cheeks, its now on his neck, legs and butt. So far his trunk is still clear. We will hit 2 weeks on Wednesday the 22nd with this rash. The original patch has since disappeared but is outlined with the original rash pattern (see photo). His skin looks tanned/discolored where the original rash was (we havent been able to “tan” yet where we live). No fever, lymphnodes not swollen, is acting completely normal.
Link to image
https://imgur.com/a/inbYkOQ
2024.05.21 02:41 lightningfries Recommendations for a hi-vis, mesh "cruiser vest" for back-country field mapping? I need one that can handle high heat, a pack, and hardcore bush-whacking!
 | It's finally happened - after 12 years of faithful service, being subjected to sun, sweat, sticks, and being stuffed full of rocks, my backcountry field vest has given up the ghost. RIP orangey - I never did get that one blood stain out. submitted by lightningfries to geology [link] [comments] My old one was a vintage 1980s jim-gem vest, gifted to me by my advisor, so I can't do a straight up replacement. I'm pretty sure this is the same model I had - this is the general style I'm looking for So I'm turning to you, comrades-in-rocks for any thoughts or recommendations on the best back-country, hot-weather field vest I can get. My needs are:
From my initial 'oogling, it looks like Jim-Gem may still be the way to go, either the 8-pocket mesh vest or the surveyor's vest with mesh back. Specific thoughts on those builds appreciated. Thanks in advance! |
2024.05.21 01:45 Ok-Champion6245 Longtime twitcher - new type of twitching
Let me start off by saying that I am diagnosed with health anxiety since 18 years old and I’m now 38. Before ever twitching or worrying about xxx, I had episodes where I worried I had HIV, Mad Cow, and th brain eating amoeba - to name a few. I’ve seen a psychologist (seeing a great one currently) and taken a variety of psych meds also over the years. I also have gotten quite familiar with the power of psychosomatic symptoms.
I’ve also had two pretty severe episodes of twitching and xxx related anxiety, in 19 and 22. Both times, I had the full battery of tests - ECG, EMG/NCV, brain MRI, neuro clinical, etc - all clean. Bloodwork never showed a relevant deficiency either. I was diagnosed with BFS. Also, both times I was CERTAIN I was going to get the bad news.
For the most part, in between episodes, I still had twitching, but it faded to the background. A couple of months ago, I came back from a trip home to Greece with some sort of virus, doctors gave me two unnecessary antibiotics, and I had a mild STD anxiety episode. As I was starting to get over the anxiety for that, the twitching started again. I’ve been doing my best to not panic or go down rabbit holes as in the past. Also been trying to avoid reassurance seeking and practice acceptance.
I’ve had the constant calf twitching, pre-cramp feeling for the first time ever, and twitching in a bunch of other places - thighs, glutes, abs, triceps, back, neck, shoulders. I’ve also had various paresthesias - pain primarily, like strong pinches or stings, sometimes dull aches, but also vibrations, internal tremors, numbness, burning sensations.
The last couple of days though, I’ve had a really strong twitch in my right shoulder. It’s much stronger than the constant calf twitches and it’s rapid fire and goes on for 10-20 seconds. It’s so violent the muscle feels sore afterwards. Anybody else felt this?
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I’ve also had two pretty severe episodes of twitching and xxx related anxiety, in 19 and 22. Both times, I had the full battery of tests - ECG, EMG/NCV, brain MRI, neuro clinical, etc - all clean. Bloodwork never showed a relevant deficiency either. I was diagnosed with BFS. Also, both times I was CERTAIN I was going to get the bad news.
For the most part, in between episodes, I still had twitching, but it faded to the background. A couple of months ago, I came back from a trip home to Greece with some sort of virus, doctors gave me two unnecessary antibiotics, and I had a mild STD anxiety episode. As I was starting to get over the anxiety for that, the twitching started again. I’ve been doing my best to not panic or go down rabbit holes as in the past. Also been trying to avoid reassurance seeking and practice acceptance.
I’ve had the constant calf twitching, pre-cramp feeling for the first time ever, and twitching in a bunch of other places - thighs, glutes, abs, triceps, back, neck, shoulders. I’ve also had various paresthesias - pain primarily, like strong pinches or stings, sometimes dull aches, but also vibrations, internal tremors, numbness, burning sensations.
The last couple of days though, I’ve had a really strong twitch in my right shoulder. It’s much stronger than the constant calf twitches and it’s rapid fire and goes on for 10-20 seconds. It’s so violent the muscle feels sore afterwards. Anybody else felt this?
2024.05.21 00:52 Jay0100 Feeling Delusional Today
Hello, I am now 24F and have been experiencing symptoms for a few years now (since 20) and I feel.. for lack of a better phrase.. crazy.. because all these tests come back normal. I deal with chronic fatigue/exhaustion, paired with joint pain/inflammation, rash/hives, GI upset, chest pain and more. I’ve had a rheumatologist run tests and everything is negative. I’ve had a I specialist do a colonoscopy and endoscopy. Negative. X-rays of my joints on my right, nothing. MRI had nothing worth noting. The only single item to stand out was a slightly elevated CRP. I don’t know how much longer I can deal with always being in pain and there being no real reason. My joints crack and pop painfully and some days are incredibly stiff, I’d rather not move. I get a rash on my neck and arm that’s.. relatively mild. I could sleep for a whole weekend and I’d probably still be exhausted. I live a relatively healthy lifestyle. I’m semi-fit, excellent blood pressure and oxygen absorption, yada yada. From the outside, I look like a perfectly normal 24 year old but on the inside, I feel 65. Is there any hope in all of this? It took 4 doctors for even 1 to consider what i was saying so for everything to come back normal, can’t help but feel so invalided. I am hoping I am not alone here. End rant.
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2024.05.20 23:32 midito421 31nb - wasp sting (?) site now purple under skin one week after sting - help!
My partner (AFAB nb, 31) noticed swelling, redness, and pain on their right forearm on Tuesday 5/14 AM. The area became extremely painful and they did a telehealth visit. The NP diagnosed a wasp sting. They were doing yardwork the previous day and it was reasonable that a wasp stung them. They didn’t notice at the time of the sting but that’s not usual for them (often bruising without noticing bumps).
The NP prescribed prednisone (the usual 6-5-4-3-2-1 dose), a nondrowsy antihistamine, and famotidine (supposedly also helps with reactions?). After three days, they had a rash on their neck and chest, and the swelling and pain was worse. Telehealth NP 2 started methylprednisalone on Thursday.
Now the rash is gone, swelling is down, but there is a purple blotch under the skin. It doesn’t look like a bruise - there’s a defined line around the purple spot. There is still quite a lot of pain even without moving/touching the arm.
Pic: https://ibb.co/VTQqsHn
Trying to avoid an ER visit. Any advice? TIA :)
Medical history: high cholesterol (treated with Crestor), anxiety (Prozac). Generally sensitive skin. Seasonal allergies.
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The NP prescribed prednisone (the usual 6-5-4-3-2-1 dose), a nondrowsy antihistamine, and famotidine (supposedly also helps with reactions?). After three days, they had a rash on their neck and chest, and the swelling and pain was worse. Telehealth NP 2 started methylprednisalone on Thursday.
Now the rash is gone, swelling is down, but there is a purple blotch under the skin. It doesn’t look like a bruise - there’s a defined line around the purple spot. There is still quite a lot of pain even without moving/touching the arm.
Pic: https://ibb.co/VTQqsHn
Trying to avoid an ER visit. Any advice? TIA :)
Medical history: high cholesterol (treated with Crestor), anxiety (Prozac). Generally sensitive skin. Seasonal allergies.