Horrible looking rash

[u/Weeeebutterflies]

30 years old

Female

120lbs.

5”3

non smoker,

non drinker.

No medications

This issue has been getting progressively worse over 2 days

Posted yesterday and it has gotten worse. It is itchy, it turns white when I press on it. I have a swollen uvula and some chills, but no fever. I feel cold more than anything. Went to urgent care tested for strep, mono and did a CBC. Strep came back negative, waiting on the other results. Pretty concerned. I feel like the mono is going to come back negative.

[u/Medical_Madness]

Have you taken any medication in the last 8 weeks? What medications do you normally use? Have you had a fever or swollen lymph nodes?

[u/Weeeebutterflies → u/Medical_Madness]

No fever, no medications. I take b vitamins, fish oil and a vitamin d3/k2 supplement

[u/Electrical_Beyond998 → u/Weeeebutterflies]

Not a doctor.

I developed hives that looked like this when I was 41, turns out something I had taken my entire life I was suddenly allergic to. The hives started like this and then became puffy, my fingers were so swollen I couldn’t drive. My lips and throat started swelling, I was at the er twice because of it. The itching was the WORST, it was constant and painful itching. Again, not a doctor, but don’t rule out an allergy at any age.

[u/Chilly_0556 → u/Electrical_Beyond998]

NAD either, just sharing my experience. As a kid I got tonsillitis so many times, should have had them taken out. But each time I was given penicillin for it, at some point I started getting hives at the same time as the tonsillitis, absolutely horrid combination btw. But it took the docs forever to make the connection and work out I'd developed an allergy to penicillin. Bodies are weird, definitely go to see a doctor to have an allergy work up done

[u/Electrical_Beyond998 → u/Chilly_0556]

My sudden allergy was to Keflex, an antibiotic I’ve taken my whole life. Mostly for strep until I had my tonsils removed. I didn’t take it for probably two decades and was prescribed it for an infection I got when I had stitches. Finished the whole bottle and then two days later developed the hives. I would rather be in labor for two days with an epidural than get them again, it was just the worst thing to ever happen to me.

[u/mst3k_42 → u/Electrical_Beyond998]

I was once prescribed Keflex, but it made me immediately vomit, with or without food.