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Pityriasis rosea

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AK4:

--- Quote from: newoldstock on March 20, 2012, 11:33:48 PM ---the reasons that I received a medical deferment from the draft. I also had severe eczema at the time along with high blood pressure and some hearing loss in the right ear (turned out to be excessive ear wax  :P). I would have been on my way to Viet Nam. I was miserable with it. I think that I was taking cortisone and pain medication such as Percocet. I also used Calamine lotion. I have never had a re-occurrence. God bless.

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Hi Newoldstock and welcome to the family

Wow, six months?!! Oh i know the crying on the inside (and maybe the outside) you did for it to last that long.  I did read somewhere that some do get muscle pain from this but fortunately i havent had that yet. 

I just recently like three days ago started taking the prednisone again because my mother kept nagging me to take it anyway.  But before that it seemed i was starting to get into the healing process where it was scaling up everywhere.  The itching has stopped pretty much and i find myself scratching just from habit most of the time.  My chest and stomach are starting to clear up except for the dark scars but theyre fading day by day.

I guess you can help me out on what was some of the signs of the final stage was for you because i tried to look this up and and couldnt really find anything on it except that when the itching starts subsiding and the scaling starts then this may be the final stage... maybe.

 If i may ask, did you have lasting scars from the spots? (Not the scars that come from scratching too much).  How long did it take for those to clear out?  Im a black male (caramel complexioned) so the spots that are in the middle of all these "ovals" are literal black so i (to quote everyone who has seen me) "look like what you would picture a leper from the bible would look like" lol :'( :'( :'(. So i just wonder how long these spots may last.  And what was or how was your final stages?

Thanks for sharing.  If you dont mind i may more questions for you.

Anthony

ps Going from the day i went to the doc and they diagnosed it, it has been about 6 weeks but when i go back and think of when i first saw that first "bump" its been about 8 or 9 weeks. (that was also info i couldnt really find when researching this).

newoldstock:
Well, it was a long time ago as I was then 22 and now 66 years old. Mine was aggravated by my stupid use of Jade East soap on a rope that belonged to my roommate. I really broke out then and the stuff came back with a vengeance. At the end of it's run the itching slowed and stopped, the sore dried up and went away, and no scars except two bad ones where the doctor took out plugs to send off for analysis. Sounds like yours is going away. You should not have scars unless you really scratched very hard. I think your bad days are almost over. Praise God.

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