Skin lesions

[Terry]

Do any of you have skin lesions? I was just telling my physical therapist the other day about these skin lesions I've been getting on my nose since the beginning of the year. These breakouts usually are in patches of three or four and are primarily on the left side of my nose. They are not zits, but blister-like things. Tonight I was reading a site about symptoms of W.G., and darned if it didn't list blister-like lesions. I was wondering if any of you have those lesions and what you think about it.

[andrew]

I have Cholinergic Urticaria: eMedicine - Urticaria, Cholinergic : Article by Robert A Schwartz

Could what you have be close to this?

[Terry]

Andrew, that seems to be saying they pop up and then go away relatively quickly. Mine take a couple of weeks to go away.

[andrew]

Mmm...yes that's true. However (something I should have added), mine popped up earlier this year and are still to go away :-) I have daily antihistamine which calms it down nicely.

[Terry]

Well, I'll just add it to the list of symptoms for the Rheumy to consider. The lesions started when my sinuses went all out of whack and seemed to be infected. I've had what I thought was a sinus infection since the first of the year. I thought the lesions were related to hormones and even stopped using my hormone creams but that didn't stop the lesions. I have four of them right now that are in the healing stage. When they're blistered out, I have to be careful not to mess with them. They heal much better if I don't rub them or anything.

[andrew]

Speaking of symptom lists, have the docs finalised a diagnosis yet?