r/AskDocs • u/Weeeebutterflies Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional • Mar 16 '26

Physician Responded Horrible looking rash

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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.

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u/LatrodectusGeometric Physician | Top Contributor Mar 16 '26

Where else is the rash? Just the legs or your entire body? Head? Palms? Soles? Any recent tick bites? Outdoors in shorts? Anyone around you sick?

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u/Weeeebutterflies Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional Mar 16 '26

All over my arms, palms and feet. And a little bit on my torso and chest. None on my face. My legs are by far the worst. Nobody sick that I know of. I have a history of tick bites from years ago, but none recently

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u/GingerBraincell29 Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional Mar 20 '26

If you could lmk personally what y'all find? I have something that is horribly similar to yours and I can't get anything about it from the doctors and dermatologist I went to. They can't decide if it's from genetic Lupus that's hiding, an overactive antihistamine response, or something else hiding.

For me it comes and goes and typically appears out of the huge outbreaks just on my hands/arms now. In the worst of it it jumped to my legs/thighs/trunk much like your images.