Need Medical Advice.

[Shauna]

Yes, I am asking medical advice from Newgrounds. Why?

1. I'm cheap and don't want to pay the doctor 20 bucks plus the cost of blood work.

2. There's actually intelligent and fucked up people that could possibly know what it is.

So here's my issue. I'm itchy. All over. Really fucking fuckingnhedhfszfs itchy. I'm bloody all over I'm itching so much. My muscles ache and I'm tired. Really tired. Been this way for the past two weeks. I've tried creams, allergy meds, etc. It doesn't work.

No I haven't changed my laundry detergent, wear or eat anything different. Everything I use is the same. I thought perhaps bed bugs but I get the same reaction no matter what bed I'm sleeping in. At my friends or my house.

HALP ME NEWGROUNDS, SADLY YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE.

Til payday.

[benmitchell0036]

Go to the doctor.

[homsarrunner3]

Could it be... lupus?

No, it's never lupus.

[georgesodini]

sounds like crabs..
then again this is NGs where every user is incel

[BlackHoleLogic]

You are.. allergic to yourself.

[saltovergray]

Please note: I am not a doctor, just a very paranoid and anxiety inflicted hypochondriac. Among other things.

I can think of numerous diseases I've wikipedia'd, but when you said rash for some reason my mind was driven to HIV. Like i said, I'm not a doctor. But I would go to one, and go get some blood work done.

[homsarrunner3]

At 1/25/12 06:46 PM, georgesodini wrote: sounds like crabs..
then again this is NGs where every user is incel

No, stupid. Crabs are just fleas that live in your...
wait.

[Shauna]

At 1/25/12 06:48 PM, SaltshakerClock wrote: Please note: I am not a doctor, just a very paranoid and anxiety inflicted hypochondriac. Among other things.

I can think of numerous diseases I've wikipedia'd, but when you said rash for some reason my mind was driven to HIV. Like i said, I'm not a doctor. But I would go to one, and go get some blood work done.

You have to have sex to get HIV. I haven't had sex in an entire year. Probably longer.

[saltovergray]

At 1/25/12 06:52 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 1/25/12 06:48 PM, SaltshakerClock wrote: Please note: I am not a doctor, just a very paranoid and anxiety inflicted hypochondriac. Among other things.

I can think of numerous diseases I've wikipedia'd, but when you said rash for some reason my mind was driven to HIV. Like i said, I'm not a doctor. But I would go to one, and go get some blood work done.

You have to have sex to get HIV. I haven't had sex in an entire year. Probably longer.

Then it's most likely not that.

Could be an allergic reaction to a food you ate. I know you haven't changed anything, but your body could potentially develop an allergic reaction to something almost immediately. Care to share what kind of rash it is? Like, pattern wise, coloration, etc.

[Razz]

You've been poisoned with a low dose of arsenic, the key ingredient in rat poison. I'd suggest seeing someone sooner than later.

[desert116]

You have xeroderma pigmentosum. You have to spend the rest of your life in a dark room. Good day.

[Lunaful]

At 1/25/12 06:52 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 1/25/12 06:48 PM, SaltshakerClock wrote: Please note: I am not a doctor, just a very paranoid and anxiety inflicted hypochondriac. Among other things.

I can think of numerous diseases I've wikipedia'd, but when you said rash for some reason my mind was driven to HIV. Like i said, I'm not a doctor. But I would go to one, and go get some blood work done.

You have to have sex to get HIV. I haven't had sex in an entire year. Probably longer.

Blood contamination too.

Maybe this, I had this problem. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth /PMH0001848/

[Shauna]

At 1/25/12 06:57 PM, desert116 wrote: You have xeroderma pigmentosum. You have to spend the rest of your life in a dark room. Good day.

The funny thing is, when the lights are out, my skin doesn't itch that much.

[homsarrunner3]

At 1/25/12 07:00 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 1/25/12 06:57 PM, desert116 wrote: You have xeroderma pigmentosum. You have to spend the rest of your life in a dark room. Good day.

The funny thing is, when the lights are out, my skin doesn't itch that much.

Maybe it's a psychological thing then. Seeing the rash makes you feel itchy.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and if I were, my patients would be dead.

[Shauna]

At 1/25/12 06:55 PM, SaltshakerClock wrote:

Could be an allergic reaction to a food you ate. I know you haven't changed anything, but your body could potentially develop an allergic reaction to something almost immediately. Care to share what kind of rash it is? Like, pattern wise, coloration, etc.

I don't have a rash. I've just itchy...no joke. No bumps. Incredibly itchy is all.

[Gasthecar]

Fleas maybe?

[sweet21]

Bloody all over? GO TO THE DOCTOR!

On a side note I have hyperhydrosis and my old doctor didn't tell me, and instead sent me to specialists, my new doctor told me right away. So I get the part where "they might know but not tell."

[desert116]

At 1/25/12 07:04 PM, Gasthecar wrote: Fleas maybe?

Hmm. Could be sarcoptes scabiei.

[Shauna]

At 1/25/12 07:12 PM, hiddeninthecrowd wrote:

At 1/25/12 06:43 PM, Shauna wrote: 1. I'm cheap and don't want to pay the doctor 20 bucks plus the cost of blood work.

health insurance

That is with health insurance genius. You must live with your parents still.

[Rallard]

Pay the $20, and definitely don't rely on the knowledge of a predominately teenage userbase.

I had a somewhat similar problem where I couldn't afford to go to the doctor immediately. Instead, I self-diagnosed myself by looking it up on the internet. Not only was I wrong (I guessed it was an allergic reaction - it was actually a bacterial infection called Hot Tub Folliculitis), but by waiting it just got worse. Way worse.

Have someone loan you the money and go to the doctor. Seriously.

[desert116]

At 1/25/12 07:22 PM, Rallard wrote: Have someone loan you the money and go to the doctor. Seriously.

No, you should wait and blog about it. And remember to film everything if your skin starts to fall off.

[Squidbit]

I think bed bugs stay on you, even if you went to your friends house, you probably just gave them bed bugs too. Ask if they've been itchy at all since you went over there.

Also I made your sig :(

[Shauna]

At 1/25/12 07:24 PM, Squidbit wrote: I think bed bugs stay on you, even if you went to your friends house, you probably just gave them bed bugs too. Ask if they've been itchy at all since you went over there.

Also I made your sig :(

You made my snow sig too? Did you make my summer sig too? lol

[Squidbit]

At 1/25/12 07:43 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 1/25/12 07:24 PM, Squidbit wrote: I think bed bugs stay on you, even if you went to your friends house, you probably just gave them bed bugs too. Ask if they've been itchy at all since you went over there.

Also I made your sig :(

You made my snow sig too? Did you make my summer sig too? lol

I only made the one with the leaf

[Squidbit]

At 1/25/12 07:45 PM, Squidbit wrote:

At 1/25/12 07:43 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 1/25/12 07:24 PM, Squidbit wrote: I think bed bugs stay on you, even if you went to your friends house, you probably just gave them bed bugs too. Ask if they've been itchy at all since you went over there.

Also I made your sig :(

You made my snow sig too? Did you make my summer sig too? lol

I only made the one with the leaf

I just refreshed the page after reading your post, it still had your old sig in my cache, I see the snow one now. My bad.

[CoCo]

I had similar problem once. I had to go to the doctor and got a prescription cream that worked pretty well. You can't just buy it anywhere. So I'd recommend going to he doctor

[Vidaria]

There are lots of things this could be. Two weeks seems to be a long time for an allergy if you've tried eliminating allergens.

Do you have a fever? Do you actually have any hives or other features on your skin? What about any pain/swelling in your joints? do the muscles just ache or do they feel weak as well?

We just did rheumatology and autoimmune diseases in med school so that might be clouding my judgement at the moment...but it sounds like its pretty systemic which suggests in my limited knowledge the need to rule out infection (maybe a flu or other virus? bacterial?), autoimmune like SLE or arthritis, collagen vascular disease, and/or cancer.

again take this with a grain of salt...don't really have enough training to definitively give u answers...

[robotking98]

At 1/25/12 06:52 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 1/25/12 06:48 PM, SaltshakerClock wrote:

You have to have sex to get HIV. I haven't had sex in an entire year. Probably longer.

HIV can have quite a long incubation period before any symptoms of it actually show up.

[RabiesIsMe]

Lose some fucking weight

[Dubbi]

At 1/25/12 09:09 PM, robotking98 wrote:

At 1/25/12 06:52 PM, Shauna wrote:

At 1/25/12 06:48 PM, SaltshakerClock wrote:

You have to have sex to get HIV. I haven't had sex in an entire year. Probably longer.

HIV can have quite a long incubation period before any symptoms of it actually show up.

Yeah, it most likely would take over a year for rash like symptoms to appear. But I doubt it's actually hiv - but that or hepatitis is a possibility if you have any past experiences with unprotected sex, even if it was years ago. Are you experiencing any pain, any short fevers, loss of appetite? If you have any of these symptoms, contact a doctor immediately.