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Ringworm- help!

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koalaoala85 · 08/10/2018 20:54

Sadly I’ve been inflicted with the delight that is ringworm. It started at the beginning of July with one small patch on my stomach. The nurse at my GP surgery confirmed ringworm and told me to use over the counter anti-fungal cream. Since then, it’s spread like wildfire all across my stomach and down both legs to my knees despite trying five different types of cream. Three weeks ago, after breaking down in dispair (constant putting on cream, always doing laundry and washing my hands several hundred times a day), I called the GP who prescribed me timodine cream. That didn’t shift it either and last week the GP put me on a 4 week course of terbinafine. I’ve been taking it for a week now and there doesn’t appear to be any change- if anything, it’s got worse.

Has anyone else been through this nightmare before? I’m desperate to see some kind of light at the end of the tunnel!

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dementedpixie · 08/10/2018 21:46

Could it be discoid eczema rather than ringworm?

BrokenLink · 08/10/2018 21:48

I am also thinking it's not ringworm. Or the anti fungal cream would have worked. Could you ask for a dermatology referral?

koalaoala85 · 09/10/2018 08:35

Just looked up discoid eczema. Although it looks similar, it’s not overly itchy like discoid eczema is. It’s maddening. I’m paranoid my 1 year old is going to catch it and I haven’t let my husband near me. Very ready for it to be gone.

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 09/10/2018 13:27

A nurse practitioner diagnosed me with ringworm (I was not at all convinced at all because I had a herald patch on my stomach). A subsequent referral to dermatology confirmed it was not this but pityriasis rosea (for which cream is absolutely useless).

I would also be asking for a referral to dermatology. Nurses are not always conversant fully with skin problems and you may have been misdiagnosed.

koalaoala85 · 09/10/2018 15:05

I forgot to add that the GP took a scraping last week so I’m assuming that if it’s not fungal, they’ll find that out. It’s just all so horrible.

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 09/10/2018 18:04

I would be asking the GP practise if your skin scraping result has come back from the lab. If not I would try and get a referral to a dermatologist. In my experience it took a dermatologist to diagnose my skin complaint properly; the nurse I saw misdiagnosed me completely.

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