Please please please is there someone out there going through what I am going through, last Sunday I devolop a rash over my operated leg. Phoned 111 told to go to,pharmacy get anithystermine, no good. Tuesday due physio they looked at it said have bloods done. Nothing showed up. Wed went too a and e doctor looked said he didn't know what it was or why I got it an alergic reaction. Made app to see surgeon, Fri saw surgeon he said he had done over 2000 operations and never seen this. A it hystermi e and quaterzone creme. Been woken up by this bloody rash again, hence this blog has anybody else suffered by this rash. Very itchy, raised like blisters. Burning. Now I have to wait till I can see a dermatologist. Please help some if u have any comments or ideas to sort this out
Hi Chris
I have heard of people having an allergic reaction to the metal in the knee but this sounds so bad if your in the UK i would go to A&E and wouldn't move until they have sorted it out.
Good luck i hope all goes well.
Yes it sounds like a reaction to the metel
Is this rash JUST on your operated knee?
Were you using any different lotion, soap, or substance ON the area?
Could you have rubbed against any plant such as poison ivy or poison oak?
Do you have a fever?
A skin rash often is the result of CONTACT WITH some substance, plant, lotion that causes irritation. If the rash is ONLY on your operated leg, it doesn't sound like anything you may have EATEN.
To me it sounds like something you have rubbed on gotten near, or placed on your leg that irritated it.
I became allergic to Neosporin and Bactyricin one summer after using it for many years! Our son had a similar reaction. We think they may have changed the formula somehow.
Let us know what you discover. There are MANY things that can cause rashes unfortunately!
I'm pretty sure someone else had a rash over their knee (I think it was just over the knee) over this past week. Was it the lady with the spot looking like a little boil, who's doctor put her on antibiotics? I know the rash went down after that, but that's all I can remember. Hers sounded the same. I don't know what it can be though, unless it's heat coming from the knee as it's healing, so a sort of 'heat rash'. I don't know if you had oral tablets but if not it might be worth trying Piriton or something like that. I know I would be very anxious though - we just don't know how wide the range of 'normal' is!
YesI had a rash and a really red itchy knee, I just put it down to the pink coloured anti septic they use instead of iodine in theatre nowadays.
I drove myself mad rubbing it, the only time I got relief was when I was icing it.
Eventually the very top layer of skin peeled, a bit like sunburn does, and that was the end of it.
Have you ever had Impetigo Chris? In the distant past?
That shows as very itchy, almost like blisters, & can come back when you are very low or rundown.
Other than that I don't know.
The only reason I thought of that is I had it some years ago & it has come back. I have a chest infection & feel really rough. How do you feel? Do you feel ill with it?
I hope you get it sorted soon.
Marilyn
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My hospital, when I went for 'pre-op day' swiped two different substances over the inside of my wrist to see if I was allergic to anything. Did anyone else get this?
No, miy hospital didn't do anything like that.
I wonder if it's generally done then? I had to roll my sleeve up and they swabbed with two different things to see if either came up red.
Don't know, but I was covered in the stuff when I came round, and the itchy rash lasted a few weeks.
Mine had been cleaned off when I got with it again, but it does seem a good idea for hospitals to check that people aren't allergic!
It does. My itching might not have been down to that, but that's what I thought at the time, because one of my visitors thought it was my leg that was inflamed and asked a nurse, who xplained that it can dye the skin for a day or two.
It sounds as though it could have been that then, doesn't it.
Yes, hope you get yours sorted out, itching is awful at night especially, when you get warm in bed it won't let you sleep.
When you say, raised like blisters, are they fluid filled? Or just bumps.
If fluid filled, try not to break the skin..
No didnt have that
WOW- perhaps Barlborough is the only place where they check for allergies to the stuff sloshed on you then!
Hey Chris,
I actually got a rash on my knee, if you want I can send you pics of my knee for you to see. I went to my knee Dr and he told me that it was a 95% chance that I was allergic to my ice pack they gave me at the hospital. He gave me a 6 day prediscone pak, took them for 6 days, went back to the Dr for a checkup on it, 3 days later I got the rash back again. My knee Dr then sent me to the dermatologist which called it Contact Dermatitis. He gave me a steroid topical ointment, put that on twice a day and it was all cleared up in 4 days, and knock on wood has not returned. I changed ice bags and no problem now. Hope this helps. If u want pics let me know so u can compare it to yours. Good luck!!
Hi thanks for your reply saw the surgeon on Friday and he said he hasn't seen this before, gave me some hydraquatorzone creme and anithystermine, but it's now appearing all over my body, in my head, shoulders back arm and legs I am going crazy, said I need to see the dermatologist but cannot get an appointment, will try again tomorrow x
Just a thought - you're not allergic to penicillin are you? I had this sort of thing many years back and went through all the washing powder issues etc. and couldn't find out what the problem was. It actually went on for two years!!! Terrible!!!! But then a doctor suggested avoiding anything with possible penicillin in - non-organic milk, any cheese, beef, pork and all sorts and within a couple of weeks it had calmed down! I can eat some products without a problem now. Are you on ANY mediction that has this as a side effect?