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Hard to treat ringworm

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YukoandHiro · 15/12/2022 21:41

I have ringworm (I think, looks exactly like it but have only had phone consultations with dr due to nhs crisis obvs).
I've been treating it with cream for about 2.5 weeks and a week ago was out on oral fluconozole, one 150mg tablet a week for 2-3 weeks then told to call back if still an issue.
I'm due my second tablet tomorrow but in the last week, even since starting oral treatment, irs gone wild. New lesions every day all over my chest, now spreading to back and my neck has gone wild. The itch is unbearable and it's so digusting looking on my neck. There must be 25 lesions or more.
I don't think I can have anything stronger than fluconozole because I'm breastfeeding my toddler.
I've left another message to the dr but has anyone else had any experience with this? I'm worried as nothing seems to be stopping the spread
I can't disinfect the whole house as my tumble dryer is broken and we have builders in so we're basically camping out in one room at the mo - it's all v uncomfortable.
Nobody else in the family has caught it yet oddly, but I don't think it's eczema as it started with one clear patch on my arm thet I thought was a burn and didn't treat early enough so it's my own fault it's so deep in my system now.
Ughhh. Any advice? I feel hideous and dirty.

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Gobbolino7825 · 15/12/2022 21:48

It might not be ringworm. I thought my son had it but it turned out to be Pityriasis Rosea - which comes on after a virus.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/pityriasis-rosea/

Lots of ringworm type patches came up all over his body - but it wasn't ringworm (thank god!)

YukoandHiro · 15/12/2022 22:01

Oh that's interesting as we've all been unwell lately.
How is it treated? (If at all)

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cofeetablebook · 15/12/2022 22:03

You can use selsun gold to treat this. I've had it before.

You put in on your skin and let it dry, then shower it off. It takes a few days but it does work.

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YukoandHiro · 15/12/2022 22:04

Thanks @cofeetablebook I'll look that up

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Gobbolino7825 · 15/12/2022 22:31

@YukoandHiro no treatment apart from mild moisturiser like aveeno.

This was after two weeks of antifungal treatment which didn't seem to work, and the rash kept popping up everywhere!

It's still there a few weeks later but vert faded and much better. Actually got much better once we stopped the antifungal cream!

(I'm not a doctor though, so not diagnosing in any way!)

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