Just wondered if anyone has any bright ideas.
I think I'm someone in relatively ok health, never had any major issues and nothing recently except a vile virus in February which laid me low for weeks and ended up diagnosed as glandular fever.
I've been feeling wonky for 3 days. Like a hangover but without the drink! Muzzy, tired, headache, irritable and intolerant, just want to go to my bed and hide but nothing more specific. Today I got up feeling fractionally better than the previous two days, but had a horrible tingly corner to my mouth. Having remembered the 'treat the tingle' adverts, I clicked it might be a coldsore (I think I have had one before, but not since my teens) and got myself pronto to the chemist who gave my Zovirax which I've been putting on every 4 hours. Forgotten how irritating and sore they are!!
I've also had this weird thing on my chin, periodically, since I got married 3 years ago. Its much like a coldsore (only no tingle, not like I've had today anyway) it appears like a small red blister, gets bigger, pops and forms a nasty crust. If I knock the crust off it reforms only bigger, and sometimes I get 2,3, 4 of the buggers in a cluster. I saw the gp last year who gave me antibiotic cream (saying it was a strain of impetigo) which did little good. The only thing which seems to work is rubbing the area with antibacterial gel (bizarre I know).
I don't think it is impetigo. No one else in the family ever gets it (and I thought it was highly contagious) and I go months with very clear skin before it pops back up again in exactly the same place with pinpoint precision. I thought impetigo was an infection.... It wouldn't come back in the same place after 12 months away, surely?
I'm wondering if the two things are somehow related? The weird chin thing is here at the moment too, which is making me wonder. Seems a coincidence that I've got both at the same time.
Anyone got any ideas what's going on? I am going to go to the GP next week but will be unlikely to get an appt before Tuesday earliest.