![]() ![]() I'd be interested to hear from anybody who has this and also has 'the itching' (skin sensitivity) as a primary symptom.Įrik Johnson says that this was a very common symptom in the Lake Tahoe epidemic in the 1980's, and that it is specifically associated with the biotoxin that he believes to be responsible for the severity of the epidemic. There was some interesting breakthrough research in eczema last year regarding 'tight junctions' which may be relevant.Īnyway, it's interesting that so many of us have this. In my case, my main painful symptom is allodynia/hypersensitive skin, and for various reasons I suspect that the source of my problems may be some kind of breakdown in - or destruction of - a sub-dermal layer, removing a layer of protection from my skin. I think they may be a symptom of excess production of keratin, and my recollection is that this excess production may be associated with a reaction to fungal/mold infections. But mentioning known 'trivial' issues like this tends to only help with a hypochondriasis diagnosis with a lot of GPs.nevertheless, it seems likely they are associated with something significant, for a subset of us at least. Never managed to find anybody else non-ME/CFS who has them, mind you. Like others have said, I was told they are very common and nothing to worry about. They definitely waxed and waned along with the rest of my symptoms. Some of them were also little raised bumps so that my skin was rough to the touch, and some of them were a bit like scabs in that they could be 'picked' (or scraped off). The description above (somewhere) of tiny blood-red spots like a speck of blood just beneath the skin, fits for me. The closest I ever got to a name for my tiny red spots on my upper arms was keratosis but again the picture isn't quite accurate. ![]()
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