Pityriasis Rosea in pregnancy- can anyone fill me in?

[4529lat]

Hi,
First time posting, I have had quite a bad case of Pityriasis Rosea for going on 3 weeks now and they say the first ‘herald’ patch appeared I found out I was pregnant. I’m now nearly 8 weeks pregnant.
The doctor originally told me I’m sure it will all be fine and then phoned out of no where 5 days later to say I need to let my midwife know and that I will need to see a consultant to check as it impacts Fetal growth. Que lots of questions and him unable to answer I had a google (stupid I know). I’m now worried sick that this won’t be a viable pregnancy.

Can anyone shed any light?

Did you speak to a midwife ?

YES!

I had this at about 13 weeks. Utterly terrified myself with google. It lasted several weeks and went through itchy phases. Went to triage who had a look and said they thought it would be okay, but nobody seemed to know for sure.

My tip: stay away from Google and do not read that Italian study. The worry was insane.

It cleared up eventually and baby was born healthy and awesome two weeks ago. The rash is now like a distant memory but the worry was real. And the itch...

@Emerald89I’m waiting for them to come back to me with a consultants appointment but with the current crisis they aren’t sure when it will be.

@LividLaughLovely congratulations! I’m so glad your baby was born healthy this really reassures me that all will be okay.
I’ve read several study’s, stupidly but I’m trying to think positive.

I had this a few years ago - I wasn't pregnant at the time. It lasted for about 3 months. What worked for me washing using the very plain bottle of head and shoulders as my shower gel. Really helped to clear up itchiness and calm my rash down. I hope that might help you too whilst you have it. It's so annoying - mine crept all over and stopped short of my face. Hope you're ok.

Hiya! I had this after having shingles last year. Head and shoulders shampoo as both shampoo and shower gel helped me! But also, if you go into boots the chemist, tell the pharmacist you're problem they can give you cream over the counter which is similar consistency to Vaseline which really helps. They can also give you special bubble bath and body wash which helps.

It flares up more if you're stressed etc. Hard to do but try not to stress too much about it.

I'm 25 weeks pregnant and I had to tell my midwife I had it previously purely because I think it's classed under auto immune on the system. But it's not changed my care, I'm midwife led and low risk. They just like to know I think. X

@lovelyjubbly12 your case is really interesting cause when I went to the walk in clinic they though it maybe chicken pox as my little boy had just had it but they think my immune system was weakened by tonsillitis and stress 🤷🏽‍♀️
Thank you everyone you’ve all been a great help!

@4529lat yeah I had shingles and then the rash came back up but it was well spread (literally everywhere) so I went back all confused as to why I was still getting rashes and the doctor said that you can get this as an after affect from a viral infection such as shingles, chicken pox etc. So maybe you caught the strand but it's presenting now in a different form? X

@4529lat would you be comfortable offering an update? I've been experiencing symptoms since 11 weeks and after a sleepless itchy night I've terrified myself on Google 😢

I can’t really provide any medical knowledge myself, but I was concerned about this a while ago as I have had PR twice and thought it might be coming back. I had also terrified myself on google, but due to other risks I had an appointment with a professor of obstetric medicine who deals with illnesses affecting pregnancy and they seemed very laid back about PR in pregnancy and said it’s not really anything to worry about. I didn’t actually say ‘but what about all the stuff on google?’ But I guess they must know what they are talking about.

@4529lat I've got PR for the second time now, however this time i am 7 weeks pregnant and first gynecologist appointment is still 15 days away. Any chance we could get an update?
My partner said not to Google, but i couldn't resist and now I'm super concerned