Aerial, on 17 June 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:
Great idea!
Here's some of mine:
http://s1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/pinkgiraffe5/?action=view¤t=ScreenShot2012-05-31at100910PM.png (emerging)
http://s1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/pinkgiraffe5/?action=view¤t=ScreenShot2012-05-31at100910PM.png#!oZZ3QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1023.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faf355%2Fpinkgiraffe5%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DScreenShot2012-05-31at101025PM.png (older part of rash)
http://s1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/pinkgiraffe5/?action=view¤t=ScreenShot2012-06-17at55008PM.png (this is what it looks like when it's 'inflamed')
http://s1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/pinkgiraffe5/?action=view¤t=ScreenShot2012-06-17at55008PM.png#!oZZ2QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1023.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faf355%2Fpinkgiraffe5%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DScreenShot2012-06-17at54924PM.png (deflated and healing. sorry about the quality)
Brief history: I went gluten free Feb. '12 in an attempt to help relieve my GI 'issues'. Through the process I have discovered that being gluten-free has resolved *many* seemingly unrelated symptoms for me. I developed this rash after my first exposure to gluten (while gluten-free, approx. March '12). I get the rash in 3 different areas - it seems to be symmetrical. Responds well to low iodine and gluten-free.
I am not formally diagnosed as I am still searching for a competent doctor. I've got a lead on one (yay!) and plan to get the genetic testing done sometime in the near future.![:)]()
Edited to add associated symptoms: the rash is *extremely* itchy - wakes me up! It tends to appear all at once - like a volcano eruption. Triggers that I am aware of: gluten, gluten cc, iodine, nighttime, hot water and hot weather.
Here's some of mine:
http://s1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/pinkgiraffe5/?action=view¤t=ScreenShot2012-05-31at100910PM.png (emerging)
http://s1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/pinkgiraffe5/?action=view¤t=ScreenShot2012-05-31at100910PM.png#!oZZ3QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1023.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faf355%2Fpinkgiraffe5%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DScreenShot2012-05-31at101025PM.png (older part of rash)
http://s1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/pinkgiraffe5/?action=view¤t=ScreenShot2012-06-17at55008PM.png (this is what it looks like when it's 'inflamed')
http://s1023.photobucket.com/albums/af355/pinkgiraffe5/?action=view¤t=ScreenShot2012-06-17at55008PM.png#!oZZ2QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1023.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faf355%2Fpinkgiraffe5%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DScreenShot2012-06-17at54924PM.png (deflated and healing. sorry about the quality)
Brief history: I went gluten free Feb. '12 in an attempt to help relieve my GI 'issues'. Through the process I have discovered that being gluten-free has resolved *many* seemingly unrelated symptoms for me. I developed this rash after my first exposure to gluten (while gluten-free, approx. March '12). I get the rash in 3 different areas - it seems to be symmetrical. Responds well to low iodine and gluten-free.
I am not formally diagnosed as I am still searching for a competent doctor. I've got a lead on one (yay!) and plan to get the genetic testing done sometime in the near future.
Edited to add associated symptoms: the rash is *extremely* itchy - wakes me up! It tends to appear all at once - like a volcano eruption. Triggers that I am aware of: gluten, gluten cc, iodine, nighttime, hot water and hot weather.
Hey Aerial,
My rash looks almost exactly like yours. There is no question in my mind that we have the same rash.
I can also identify with the EXTREMELY itchy thing that wakes you up. And the volcano eruption description. Hot water really gets me, and hot steam (like with cooking) the hot water too but not as much. Sweating definitely makes it more pronounced (which I do a lot of in the summer).
I haven't been diagnosed as gluten intolerant or DH or anything. The rash has responded well to oral steroids and sometimes antihistamines.
I've never had any gluten symptoms before this. Definitely no GI problems at all. I've been mostly gluten free for about 10 days, and the rash has not gotten better. However, there have been fewer "eruptions". Besides that though, I don't feel any better... like sometimes people say they feel great when the stop eating gluten. Hasn't done a thing for me.
Interested to talk to you more