Tired of all those straightforward and cognizant questions? well here's one from left field (unless maybe you've read some of my prior topics )
For the past two months or so I've noticed these weird looking patches of brown spots on my skin in many different places. My skin in those areas looks a little like convoluted checkers board with the spots interspersed with regular skin coloring. The spots are rough but not raised, or barely raised so as not enough to notice it. The color is scab-like but maybe a bit lighter.
More spots appearing seems to correlate with me feeling bad to some degree.
But the weirdest thing is that when I scratch them they turn into a kind of whitish powder which is kind of creepy.
Has anyone had this, or know what it is from?
Thanks much,
john duncan
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TerryK
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Sorry, I don't know what they are but if you are in treatment with abx or any other prescription medications I hope you call your doctor. Some rashes need to be known about ASAP since there are a few that are dangerous. Terry I'm not a doctor.
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Yeah-I got kind of excited when I noticed them on me-dermatologist told me they were "Barnacles of Age" What a bummer.
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The only thing is I'm not that old... maybe unless you think age is a state of mind?
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Areneli
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Pityriasis versicolor?
See a dermatologist
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Thanks TerryK, CobWeb and Areneli. I think at my next visit (sometime next week) I will ask my llmd to refer me to a dermatologist. My mind seems more blurry than usual & really woozy(for example I had to retype this paragraph a couple times because I was having the infamous problems with using the word you are thinking).
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My husband has gotten something similar two times. Last spring he got big brown splotches, they looked like overgrown freckles with lines of normal skin in between. Several doctor saw them and shrugged. They eventually cleared up. I noticed that he seems to be getting a lighter case of it again this spring.
Maybe its annual dermatological spring rite of passage for the lyme?
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I'll get a bump, almost like a zit, then when it goes away it leaves a shiny brown flat spot, looks like an age spot only after a long time will finally dry up and flake off like a scab.
I have these spots on places that haven't seen the sun for years.
Mostly, though, it happens on my arms.
It's just one more weird thing.
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I get these too - exactly as you desrcibed and as others have described. Sometimes they go through what seems to be a pimple-like stage and then turn into it, and other times they just appear.
This started with me when I was on tetra many years ago. Since then, different abx seem to trigger it for me. Sometimes it feels like a rash that is like a detox reaction and then turns into these bumps. It is becoming more and more with me - my skin used to be very smooth and now it is becoming bumpy.
I had a dermatologist remove one that came from doxy and sun that was not cancerous but maybe pre-cancerous. The rest are like that but smaller.
I do not know what they are and neither do my dermatologists. But I know they are related to Lyme or the meds. Especially the tetra / doxy family but now it is happening with zith.
I know I haven't helped, but that is my experience. I would see a dermatologist just to be safe.
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lymewreck36
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I have the same spots, exactly as you describe.
Probably from years of sun exposure, medications, and lyme.
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