Boots nor Superdrug couldn't diagnose this, maybe one of you can?

[chatenoire]

I've got this rash that doesn't go away even after finishing the treatment. (It comes and goes). It spread to my face at times and right now I can feel how half my face is getting dry and my eye is throbbing. Have called 111 hoping I'll get seen but not hopeful.

Easy one to try- nail varnish reaction. My rashes and itches were like your photos. Removed nail varnish and all gone in a couple if days- like magic

Don’t know if this is an option but can you go direct to an allergist for testing? I woke up with a crazy rash/swollen eyes etc a couple of months ago and it turned out to be a bunch of food intolerances. I’d assumed it was something on my skin but no. And they are all foods I’ve eaten for years, so it was very surprising. I got some treatment and have had to eliminate foods for now; will be seeing allergist again this week for next steps.

Yours looks similar and the rash does look like hives/a histamine reaction.

Skin things very often have their origin in the gut so someone with that expertise will have a very different perspective to a pharmacist who is more likely to consider topical solutions. You need to get to the root cause.

I’m not in the Uk and am used to having to pay for even the GP, so it made sense to me to go straight to the allergist. Appreciate that might not be an option for you though.

Yeah I guess we are all different. That's why I said it sounds and looks like it - it's very similar to when I had it

Contact dermatitis

Agree with peri as it can cause skin changes

Hives, heat rash, nickel allergy, irritation from glasses frame, clothes labels, bites. I'm not a medical person but have been brought out in rashes from all of the above.

You need to keep going gave to the GP. Once they've tried everything and nothing is working, that's when you'll get a referral to derm.

Most doctors don't tell you this explicitly but this is how it works. They just assume that if the treatment they give you doesn't work you'll go back but lots of people think that's it and there's nothing else and they don't go back.

The NHS is a try one thing at a time service!

I have chronic health conditions and can assure you that you just need to keep going back! Also if you get stonewalled by one doctor, just go and see another.

It looks like it's developing a new layer of skin. Eye still feels super dry.

GP couldn't diagnose it either, just vaseline for my eye and stronger corticoids :/ .

I have cold urticaria and if I'm exposed to the cold or wind (and I've not had my anti-hist), I break out in something that looks just like that. I mainly get it in my limbs (legs, feet, hands and arms) and it starts with an itchy tingle before spreading into a rash and little raised bumps (hives) that itch like MAD.

I take a prescription anti histamine every morning and rarely have issues now.

I should add that over the counter anti-hists didn't help. I take 180mg of Fexofenadine which I get on prescription.

I actually suffer from a similar thing, but get it in my stomach and legs. I take antihistamines pre-emptively and I prevent it from triggering that way.

So my cousin (a dermatologist) told me that it was appalling their best advice was to apply vaseline. So she told me I should try a couple of ointments that are normally prescribed for conjunctivitis.

I've called the GP and asked them for the prescription, but I'm not very hopeful!

@chatenoire I too thought shingles.

I had shingles mis diagnosed by a pharmacist.

EARLY antivirals can help as shingles is absolutely agonising / a deep gnawing, burning pain like sunburn and toothache and wasp stings all rolled into one.

Shingles is only ever on one side of the body- in dermatomes.

I have it on both sides though....

I’m still waiting for the patch tests but will let you know!

Could it be linked to the sun?

Unlikely... If anything sunshine made it better

This is what it evolved to since the last time I posted. I finally have an appointment with a dermatologist who's doing bloods. (No idea what for!)

Gosh, I don’t know what it is either but they’ll know what they’re doing

Possibly linked to hair dye????

I hope so! But I'm also not super hopeful, just in case they turn out to be the "one issue at the time" doctor

Try taking your jewellery off. I saw an Instagram post a few days back and this helped the young woman in question. She had experienced a reaction

I've taken it off and it had made zero difference

I've taken it off and it had made zero difference