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13 July 2007 @ 02:51 pm
Lupus Rash PHOTOS!  
So I finally got around to taking a photo of my hardcore rash, caused by FLUORESCENT lights.

I had to sit in the doctor's office for two hours under fluorescent lights without any sort of protection. I didn't apply my sunscreen, because I'm a lazy jackass, and I don't have a wide brimmed hat yet. No before photo, but I guarantee my face didn't look like THIS before.

This is the original photo - which doesn't really show the rash very well, due to the bright lights in the bathroom AND the camera flash.





and this is the version where I just magnified the reds in the photo, to make the rash easier to see.



the rash on my face is called Acute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus.

but i also get Chronic Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus all over my legs and my ears sometimes. (i'm working up the courage to post a photo of my legs. they are torn to bits.)
 
 
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fibro witch[info]fibro_witch on July 14th, 2007 03:50 am (UTC)
Nooooooooooooooooo
I hate lupus, I hate lupus, I hate lupus.

Please please please do not get systemic lupus.

please?

I think I posted a picture of what SLE does to my body once, the bruises, the cysts. Stupid lupus.
Swisss Misss[info]swisss_misss on July 14th, 2007 03:55 am (UTC)
Re: Nooooooooooooooooo
yeah, it rules. i actually do already have SLE.. i've started developing cysts on my lips, and my legs are just awful with bruises.. my back and chest as well. yech!!!
(Anonymous) on July 15th, 2010 12:55 pm (UTC)
Re: Nooooooooooooooooo
Hello, Are you saying you get rashes and bruises where the skin is covered?? I just had my first rash on my covered back, from the bra line to the pant line. Large and the next day it was encircled with a bruise. The new Rheumy said: "you must have fallen and not remember it". WTH. Who would not remember such an event. I had been out in the sun..
After 18 yrs with lupus, this was my first sun rash event. Strange. And bummed with having to find a new Rheumy... I even took a picture to him of the rash..
(Anonymous) on July 26th, 2007 10:22 am (UTC)
I wish there was a third picture where you looked like you used to. You'd be beautiful in all three, but I could see you completely healthy and free from any worry about your health.
Swisss Misss[info]swisss_misss on July 29th, 2007 06:03 am (UTC)
How do you know what I used to look like? Hmm.. Secrets! Thank you for the compliment.

I have no photos of myself as an adult without being sick - that's never really happened.
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[info]ixi_moron on January 14th, 2009 11:37 am (UTC)
it feels so good looking at your picture...odd thing to say i know,but it was some sort of twisted-relief to find you while searching for info.
the thing is i have had that rashes, or i dont know how to name them yet, since i was 19 or so,now i'm 26 and things are getting worst about many things concerning my health overall.about the rash, i've never understood what it was,thought acne,but it didn't felt like it or look like it to me,until my current doctor told me something about a "butterfly mark" and after years of seeing doc's about this rashes and other stuff, she tells me i have an autoimmune disease...and i get all freaked about the term and i get to research on my own just to get more freaked ahahaha...
i always felt so misunderstood about this thing in my face,and actually took pics of myself when i was so disturbed about not knowing what it was and why it was so uncomfortable and annoying situation...
now, i'm confused of how to feel,how will i treat this...all sort of stuff and watching your photos and reading your words helped me calm down and try to see things differently and not feeling so alone and misunderstood...

Thanks for sharing!¡!i'll be cheking more of your articles i have the feeling it will be helpful ^...^

PD: sorry if i spelled words badly, i have rusty english ...


O...o
ixi

Swisss Misss[info]swisss_misss on January 15th, 2009 08:11 am (UTC)
Thank you for the encouragement - something we all need. I'm sorry to hear about your health problems, maybe my new blog can help you better: http://xoswiss.blogspot/com

Best of luck. :)
Swisss Misss[info]swisss_misss on January 15th, 2009 08:12 am (UTC)
(Anonymous) on January 17th, 2009 11:06 am (UTC)
your diagnosis
my name is Jenny and I suffered from all of your ailments also with rashes but I was severely bed ridden for almost 12 years of my life last year 12/08
I stopped all meds and today I suffer from not one thing at all <3

but I do have scars on my legs and arms also this was caused by meds fibromyalia is an emotional syndrome ``broken heart `` syndrome not a disease I would like you to contact me if youd like <3

I had every test imaginable leading to all of my diagnoses
I was told it was in my heart and my brain but what actually was in my brain were the thoughts of others not qualified in what stress chemicals and maybe sometimes sadness leads us to <3
(Anonymous) on April 21st, 2009 04:57 am (UTC)
Re: your diagnosis
FIBRO IS MORE THAN A EMOTIONAL SYNDROME. YOU HAVEN'T
DISCOVERED THE RIGHT DOCTOR YET! ALL OF THOSE IDIOT
DOCOTORS WHO USED TO SAY IT WAS IN OUR HEADS ARE NOW
FINDING OUT OTHERWISE. I HAVE HAD 2 DOCOTRS CALL AND
APOLOGIZE TO ME FOR TREATING ME THE WAY THEY DID.
(Anonymous) on June 6th, 2009 06:44 pm (UTC)
Re: your diagnosis
it's a very sad thing to say but many dr's including the Mayo Clinic. will diagnose women that they don't know what to do w/ as fibro! leading to the bad rep as an emotional or fictional problem!! it's soo sad i know people who actually have fibro and people who've been misdiagnosed just because their dr didn't know what to do w/ them!! a complete disservice to both types of patient!! i was one fo the people that they tryed to push the false diag. on!! thank god i had great drs who said yes some of ur symptoms r similar but it's not fibro. i have over the last few years started developing the lupus rashes still going threw the whole diagnos process, lupus, RA, 2 older sisters that have been given diagnoses, of lupus and nonsyrum RA. interestingly enough i was ignored by drs because my chiro was the one that put the symptoms together and told me to get to dr immediatly!! u would think the fact that a chiro was saying get to the dr and go threw treatments we really don't approve of should have made tham more concerned!!
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(Anonymous) on May 20th, 2009 02:24 pm (UTC)
lupus rash
hi there thanks for your post.
Ive had lupus for about 8 years. I started getting this ?rash, more like isolated big acne pimples in odd spots. They are gross. I'm 45 and they are not like normal pimples. is that the rash you are talking about.
Or are you talking about the fine red rash on your cheeks? Is that lupus erythematosous?

cheers Andrea
(Anonymous) on March 10th, 2010 04:36 am (UTC)
Rash
I know what exactly you are going through. I have had lupus for 3 years now and it has been an absolute hell. I have the rash as well and sometimes swelling in my face. When I first flared my whole body got a rash,face blew up like a pumpkin. I am only 30 years old and have had blood clots, hip replacement,knee surgery, and is on about 10 pills a day. I sure wish that they could find a cure for this aggravating disease. I think there is one, but no one wants to market it cause then we would not need the doctor anymore. That is just my personal opinion. Good luck to all with the silly disease.
(Anonymous) on March 23rd, 2010 05:51 am (UTC)
Hi
Ive just got those rashes on my face its a different one to the rest of my body its itchy as they gave me tablet and a steiroid cream im like u i hate the lupus thing all together is yours like this i swell up as well not suppose to be in the sunlight either any help be great im new at this
(Anonymous) on April 12th, 2010 09:26 pm (UTC)
actual lupus skin cycle
Hi, I was just wondering if your symptoms went in a cycle. For example, appear like raw red spots, then peel over, and then almost completely go way. Then start all over again. I had a biopsy done 2 weeks ago and still no results. My doctor said he is checking for everything. I of course dont want it to be skin cancer, but also no lupus. Were your sypmtoms the same? Thanks Michelle
(Anonymous) on May 4th, 2010 05:07 am (UTC)
Re: actual lupus skin cycle
I actually have been scared i have a huge red bump on my chin that is hard and just hurts then the peeling pimple like rash discussed here ....my doctors thought i had chlymida, then syphlis but after reading and finding this page it has to be this .... thanks :)
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Wendy Byrd-Meldrum[info]Wendy Byrd-Meldrum on July 17th, 2011 12:37 pm (UTC)
lupus
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