Rash

[cmclien]

This is an update to a post I had last week.

I developed a rash on my torso and ankles on Sunday.  Thinking it was a medicine allergy I went off my plaquenil.  I am taking some claritin but the rash is only getting worse.  It doesn't itch but is fairly red and mottled looking.  It is now pretty much everywhere except my face, butt and only very light on my arms.  It is lots of little red dots, some raised now. 

It doesn't itch at all.  Have any of you had this?

After I walked my dog the other day it showed up on my chest and my face cheeks looked flushed though thats gone now.  Last night after walking my dog at 6pm, cloudy, my chest did look worse.  My chest area has always been sensitive to the sun and I should always wear sunscreen because the skin there is so thin.  I've had prickly heat type rashes when I was younger and on meds that made me sensitive to the sun but they itched terribly.

My rheumatologist wants to see me and look at it so they squeezed me in this afternoon.  I'm freakin out and afraid he will tell me its a lupus type rash though I have zero other lupus symptoms or something but I don't know anything about them.
I'm wondering if this could just be sun sensitivity from the plaquenil but its everywhere not just areas that have been touched by the sun.  Can SJS have rashes?

Any thoughts?

[Epson]

I'm plagued with rashes and had several biopsy's that were inconclusive, my dermatologist was sure it would come back positive for Lupus.  My medicine drawer has a half a dozen prescription creams and ointments with no luck.  I started seeing a different doctor and it seems like we have a handle on it.  The new theory is that I have a reaction to the yeast that is found on normal human bodies.  The doctor said that she see a lot of folk with AIs that have rash, many of the which are from unknown origins.

[cmclien]

Finally saw my rheumy this afternoon.  He said definitely an allergy rash and prescribed me a medrol pack.

I know he's disappointed as thats one of the few decent solutions out there for sjs.  Eventually when/if I develope more severe symptoms we will have to look at alternative treatments.