Random raw skin thing - ideas?

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So I realised my skin on my stomach felt wet and assumed I'd spilt something...

Its like a burst blister thing?? And some lumpy skin around it??

Any idea? I don't remember doing anything to it... 😳

(some of the flakiness I think might be where the plaster was.)

So current photo (there was sooooo much pus coming out I wish I'd got that photo for people who like the ick! I found a similar one on reddit where there was pus under a hydrocolloid dressing.)

I have a minor injuries unit appointment to see a nurse and I feel silly. Its just a scrape really that I covered up?!

The middle wound is about 2.5cm long. The whole red bit about 10cm. It's bumpy around the wound.

(the fibrey bit is because I dabbed it with loo roll to when it oozed everywhere!)

Have you tried anti histamine cream? Like you put on bites. You can try a test patch to see if it works.

I wouldn't recommend that on an open wound

Gosh I hope you managed to get that looked at today. What did they say?

I don’t like the look of that at all! Did you manage to get seen?

Yes through minor injuries - a lovely nurse saw it but was baffled . I took the dressings I'd used and reacted to so she gave me a different one. She cleaned it out (thankfully I had no feeling to it!) and they're an isolated unit and she couldn't prescribe cream so through 111 asked a dr to prescribe it and I pick it up tomorrow.

She thought from my photos it could have started from a burn from a hot water bottle. Or I do inject mounjaro - so perhaps an injection site reaction but I record the area I inject so that general area was 3 weeks ago - she wondered if it had been festering under the skin and then burst. Then I complicated things with dressings I was allergic too?

Im still not entirely happy. I'm going to show the pharmacist tomorrow (if they'll look) and Monday am I have my local nurse at the gp appointment but at this stage as the other nurse wasn't sure I'd like a dr to see it. She did say if it doesn't clear up in a week show my GP.

Its tricky being a weekend because it wasn't an emergency and priority I guess is to clean /dress it and I will have antibootic/antiseptic cream on it all tomorrow.

I've taken an antihistamine as the red around it is still there (presumably reacting from the dressings) but it doesn't look any different yet.

Ho hum. It now seems quite a big angry thing on my stomach and I'm not keen.

I'm not hot, blood pressure okay, etc.

It's kind of bigger than it looks in my photo too 😬. I have a large stomach area (obese/bit like a pregnant belly) and it's covering a palm sized area I'd say.

Surely you’d know if a hot water bottle had caused it? Have you had a really hot hot water bottle in that area?

I did wonder about an autoimmune pemphigus type disorder, there is a drug induced type of pemphigus which has been linked to different drugs inc mounjaro and ozempic. It can start with a single large blister though I’d have thought wide spread blistering was more common.

No that's why it was so weird as first I knew was it was wet! (and guessed burst blister). I do use hot water bottles (and when I thought it was wet assumed it had leaked tbh) but it has a cosy on it and had been there some time. Perhaps if I'd leant against it for a whole and somehow not noticed burning??? But they aren't usually hot through the cosy

I was thinking maybe a random spider bite...

Oh gosh I really don't want to have a "disorder" but I was wondering whether I "had something" while the 2 nurses stared at it.

I really really don't want to have to come off mounjaro. It's been life hanging. I assume if I have got something it won't go away on a week and I'll know.

Obviously whatever it was I made it worse with the 2 types of dressing and I assume my skin reacted to both. I've never reacted before.

I took an antihistamine yesterday afternoon so can't take one til this afternoon and had hoped it would reduce the unhappy skin

Hopefully the fuci - something I'm getting in a moment helps but I'm nervous if it's the wrong thing if we don't know what it is.

Yeah I wouldn’t stop anything for a one off thing but bear in mind if it continues. Fucimide is a good anti fungal with some antibiotics in it too. So hopefully works well.

Thankyou so much @ElbowsUpRising . I think as it's gone on and not just been "ooh look random blister thing" I have started to get worried as its really weird and I just want to know what it is now.

I did Google the pemphigus and it did look like how the blister started. And then scared myself. But it is just the one blister. Also MJ wise I've had 10 injections so far. I certainly won't inject anywhere near it... I also started elvanse recently so there's all sorts in my body that didn't used to be.

I am morbidly obese though and that in itself is a risk for everything so desperately want not to be and it become healthier.

I don't like having an unidentified patch of wrong on me.

I guess now it's not urgent though I'll go to my nurse app at the doctors as originally planned on Monday and perhaps try and see my own Dr. (usually a 4 week waiting list).

I guess it would be a dermatologist I'd need to see? At least no ones suggested an urgent app under a 2 week wait so have to be greatful for this!

Just had a thought.

Maybe it was simple friction. My pants come across there and on the first photo there was a red mark across there (cheap pants - elastic round the top).

I've started walking in the last couple of weeks (previously couldn't walk more than 10minutes Mounjaro seems to have made it possible!!) so I have been intentionally walking much more than I used to. Maybe the repetitive movement rubbed it...

Here's today's photo.

The "squares" in the wound are from the dressing.

I'm off to get cream....

Oops photo

Ouch that does look nasty. Could be friction I guess. Well done on the weight loss and starting mounjaro though.

Whatever caused the initial wound I don't like the look of it now, the redness around it looks infected to me. Definitely keep your appointment tomorrow, tbh I'd want to see a DR as I suspect you will need antibiotics.

I'm not familiar with how MJ injections work, is it a new needle each time and do you clean the skin with antibacterial wipes or anything first? I'd suspect an injection more that the chafing. I think if anything had rubbed to the point of rawness you would have felt it getting sore.

I would have like to have seen a dr yesterday tbh. I don't like it at all 😬. I don't think I class as emergency though to access one.

I'm seeing a nurse tomorrow as I had that booked before I took the dressing off and realised how bad it was - I'm hoping I can make a dr app before 4weeks off the back of that maybe?

Most of the red I think was reaction to the dressings - you can see the wavy outline of the hydrocolloid dressing (can't describe the shape - like a long oval with a circle in the middle) like a kids drawn round it in red. That wasn't happy at the edges of the dressing which was why I took it off! I don't have any of the right vocabulary!

The big red rectangle reaction to the first dressing has gone though yay! (I took antihistamine and will this afternoon).

Maybe the nice cream will ease the red. The middle looks like a pit of doom to me and not like anything I've ever had before so I don't like it.

Oh fun fact - she did a thing where she prodded it and I couldn't feel her prodding in the actual wound at all! Just when she prodded the skin around it.

I'm both weirdly fascinated (hence the original posting under sporners) and quite anxious as I want to know what it is.

I guess yes to injection - but it appeared nearly 3 weeks later. It's all sterile packaged needles and I have alcohol swabs too and it's a tiny needle. Maybe it did a weird thing? Thankfully the 3 I've done since have been fine! Google suggests injection site reactions aren't unusual with mj but that's more an itchy rash and to take antihistamine rather than exploding stomach of doom.

I agree that you’d benefit from oral systemic antibiotics rather than just the cream but I’m no doctor. I’d certainly be wanting to see one tomorrow.

I think the cream will have some magic in it but I had initially wondered about antibiotics yesterday (I've gone from avoiding drugs most of my life if I can help it to mounjaro, elvanse and now wanting antibiotics in a few months!)

I'm not working in person til 3 tomorrow so maybe if the nurse is sufficiently horrified at 9am I'll get a same day appointment??

On the plus side I've not got a temperature, it's not spreading... (My brain leads to quite anxious at times and I'm telling myself this to reassure myself I'm not actually ill ill.... Yet)

Thankyou all. I know it's become super gross but it kind of feels less lonely with it sharing it!

Oh that looks painful. Is it the camera that is giving it a green hue? Or some cream that's been applied?

If you are picking up the creme from a pharmacist I'd ask them to take a look just to be sure

Do you not have a minor injuries unit near you? If you can't see a GP easily that's where I would go. It's not emergency worthy, but it is 'can't wait a month' worthy imo!
I guess if you also reacted to the adhesive in the blister dressing it may have angered it (!) So hopefully will settle with time now you have removed it.
My sister who had a reaction (sore, blistering) to the adhesive in dressing post surgery was in her 30s, has had minor irritations to plasters before but nothing major. So these things can develop and get worse, just because it was OK before doesn't mean you can't react to it now

• yes it was/is a weird color. Sort of greeny!
• I did go to minor injuries yesterday! That's where I saw the nurse but there was no GP there so she asked a 111gp to later prescribe the cream. I'm hoping the nurse at my gp tomorrow will be helpful. /get me a quicker app if nec at my surgery.

-it first reacted to the normal guaze dressing. I did ask the pharmacist if they had any more of what I've got! They haven't...

• really interesting your sister did too! I hadn't really realised you could start to react out the blue!

I've put cream on again and it looks weird to me. Hopefully nurse can say soemthing tomorrow! It looks shinier and redder (!) but I guess that could be the cream on it.

So daily update!

Saw the nurse - it still looks gross to me but she was happy with it. Says it's healing and most of the issue is the rection to the adhesive dressing. She's prescribing the special dressings and says to come back if it gets worse or I'm concerned. She's lovely and it's much easier to get a nurse app than a dr one!