I had similar, years ago, and was diagnosed with Ringworm.They are bigger than golf balls now, more like large fried eggs.
Dafuq is wrong with me?
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I had similar, years ago, and was diagnosed with Ringworm.They are bigger than golf balls now, more like large fried eggs.
Dafuq is wrong with me?
I had similar, years ago, and was diagnosed with Ringworm.
I've got 3 or 4 red welts or blotches in a cluster about an inch away from my navel.
It's as if a biting bug lives in my belly button, and creeps out at night to munch 3 or 4 times and then goes back into hiding. (No, I don't actually believe there's a biting bug in my belly button).
I can't see any entry/exit or puncture wounds. They are blotches that are almost circular but not quite, they are not at present uncomfortable. They look like a larger red blotch in the mirror.
I used to get these when I attempted to start running (a couple of months' endeavour that ended in a huge crash). I thought it was some kind of exercise intolerance 'cos I would get a burning throat too. These ones would hurt in a painful pain/itchy mix.
The doctor said it was friction burns and to add vaseline or something or wear looser clothing. So, to test this I did my next run in the nude (don't worry, I stayed indoors!). Still got the rashes. They take 3 - 5 days to subside.
Don't know what's caused them this time, although I have been gardening and may have overdone it without realising (been using opiates to mask the PEM).
Also. I have a painful similar welt on the tip of my left thumb. Not sure if it's related, but it's like a bite or area of inflammation underneath the skin at the tip of the thumb.
Any thoughts?
ThThey are bigger than golf balls now, more like large fried eggs.
Dafuq is wrong with me?
Here is my inner elbow yesterday:
Is your treatment this time the same as the last time you had it? When did you first/last have it?