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I was diagnosed with pityriasis rosea almost 6 weeks ago. Apparently it takes 6-8 weeks to disappear, but I keep finding new spots every time I shower, new red spots seem to pop up. The first ones I got seem to keep changing. Does anyone know what these spots are meant to look like before they just disappear?
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I have suspected PR again - I had it 4 years ago and it lasted about 10 months. I linked it to a strep throat. My friend is a dermatologist and suggested dermovate which I m trying. This time my rash is more joined up on my chest and stomach, back with small er spots inside arms and on my legs. I feel so peeved. I m trying to avoid sugar to try and treat from outside in. I m planning on trying aloe Vera drink and Topical from the plant itself. I wondered about echinacea to boost immunity. Trying garlic cloves and cinnamon ( anti bacterial/ fungal/ viral). I'm taking an an anti-histimine morning and night. I have tried Vosene ( dandruff shampoo) but not continued and have Aveeno and Bio oil. I might try oatmeal baths as I did for my children when they had chicken pox. I m 41 relatively fit slim white skinned. I also tried a bit of sun. Really sad as off to Spain in 2 weeks but will look like a leper ( apologies for offending) in my bikini. Trying affirmations from Louise Hay. A bit of Reiki on myself. Medical, Emotional, and googling like mad. Hard not to get despondent and depressed. Trying to stay positive, sending those vibes to all of you struggling with this right now too:-)))
July 5, 2016 - 3:09pmThis Comment
I've had mine for 12 weeks and it's finally starting to go away. The spots get flaky and dark coloured. Next time I notice they are just gone. This has been utterly miserable.
June 30, 2016 - 12:20amThis Comment
I'm so sorry you had to go through it, but thank you for posting this. I am in week four and my spots have just started to go dark and flaky. They also rarely itch anymore, sometimes at the end of the day if I'm warm and wearing pantyhose. I'm hoping that this means that I am nearing the end. It has been absolutely miserable dealing with this. Thank you for the advice.
January 29, 2019 - 4:16pmThis Comment
i have been diagnosed with PR 24 days ago. it is utterly the most miserable and depressing condition I have ever had. Nothing seems to help me, I am not sleeping because I can't stop itching, I can barely focus at work because of how tired I am. I have to wear loose clothes, no bra, and find myself very depressed. The rash is not subsiding at all... After each (warm, which is miserable) shower that I take, I become even more irritated... I just bought CERAVE cream, which helps me in the day time, but come the night I just can't sleep with it on my body...
June 29, 2016 - 8:05amThis Comment
I've had PR for about 9 weeks now, and its just starting to dissapear. It's been horrible to look at, feel & discover when/if theres new spots. Things that helped me were: Diet, eating basic/healthy foods (not too strict, yet trying to avoid foods that make me feel bad) I felt like cutting down /out dairy. Lotions/Soap, I had to use a soapless bodywash, it made my skin feel more "pure" I guess you could say. For lotions, I had to find a purfumeless , hydrating and sensitive skin cream. I found a tub of Aveeno, which was amazing - and lathered it on my body quick after drying off from a shower. It made my skin itch less and feel better. If itching was really bad, I'd have an antihistamine tablet and I tried out some low steroid cream.
So I'd say stay away from purfumes, soaps and things that make you feel bad. I really dislike the sight of my PR. But it really does start to go away. Mine showed no signs of change (it just got worse and worse, spreading further down my arms and legs, where people would see) then one day, it began to change colour, which was scary, and looked like it might scar. But after maybe 2 weeks, it started to shrink and dissapear completely.
July 4, 2016 - 2:54amThis Comment
Omg I've had PR for three weeks already,
April 10, 2017 - 7:11pmI feel as though this will NEVER go away.
It's so embarrassing too.. The Dr gave
me Prednisone, but it doesn't seem to be working.. I also changed my soap to Dove
Sensitive skin....
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Try taking Benadryl at night. It's the only way I could sleep. If that doesn't work your dr should give you an rx that does.
June 30, 2016 - 12:21amThis Comment
I also had this pr and it is really difficult the rash and the itching . The dr. Gave me some lotion and creams and antihistamine but what really help me is making my body healthy dirnking vitamins and antioxidant ...and also i drink turmeric the pure one...and now i see the results for just 4 weeks the marks are fading and im very very happy...
June 16, 2016 - 7:58pmThis Comment
I am a 29 year old male and I just found out I have pr. Never had it before and it just popped up one day. About a week later I got really sick, throwing up, severe headache, and extreme joint and body pain all over my body. After that day of being sick I know that this disease is caused by something that happened in our bodies long ago and stays dormant until the right conditions are met. Stress, poor diet, lack of physical activity, and warm weather seems to bring the disease out of its dormant stage. I have found great success with a healthy diet, excersise, and direct sun light and it looks my pr is going away after only a week of getting sick. I believe this disease is a result of one of the many unnessasary vaccines or medical procedures (wisdom teeth removal) we received when we were kids. I am in the medical field and I know for a fact that the top doctors in our country know the cause of PR. To call it a Virus is laughable because viruses act certain ways and are contagious. PR is not. PR is a result of the multitude of unnessasary actions taken upon this most recent generation. Vaccines and unnessasary medical procedures are surely to blame for this disease. The only way to get rid of it is by resetting the homeostasis of your body with a healthy organic diet and excersise.
May 23, 2016 - 6:33amThis Comment
Clearly you are not in the medical field, nothing you just said was medical. No one with a medical education would ever say that vaccines and wisdom teeth removal are unnecessary. Vaccines are preventative, based on endless research and evidence in immunology, and wisdom teeth removal is only done when wisdom teeth are causing problems. PR also was first described in 1860 (and it existed before its first clinical description, obviously). That means PR predates vaccines and wisdom teeth removals by many decades at least. It cannot be caused by things that it predates in existence.
July 12, 2016 - 5:21pm"Resetting the homeostasis of your body" doesn't make sense. That's not how homeostasis works. It's a consistent effort on the part of your body to maintain standard conditions. In some cases, like hypertension, the body has become used to conditions being abnormal and has altered its homeostatic response, (i.e. not lowering the blood pressure even though it is high. But note that if it spikes even higher, the body will still respond normally, it is just that the baroreceptors specifically, due to the constant pressure, have stopped reacting to the "normally" high bp someone with hypertension experiences. They would still respond to changes in pressure.) but this is an example of a medical condition in someone that has caused the body to slowly change its reaction over a long time, not something that can be applied to the general population.
Healthy diet and exercise is always a good idea for everyone.
Research actually doesn't say PR is viral, it just says it isn't bacterial or fungal or allergen-based. It is potentially linked to a virus, but it is unclear and the rash itself is not the virus.
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