Rash around eyes

[lesleyc]

hi everyone, for a few years i've been getting a rash around my eyes. it's red puffy and scaly.
sometimes it's fairly mild and lasts a few days and ohter times i've had it for months at a time.

it doesn't seem to matter if i wear makeup or use soap, so i don't think it's an allergy.
my old doctor told me it was ezcema, but the $100 tube of cream i got for it never worked and she didn't seem to care.

i'm waiting now to see if it gets a little worse so i can go to the doc's and hopefully get an answer. it's so embarassing, some people think i've been crying, but it's just a rash.

does anyone else get anything like this?

thanks
lesley

[halfpintfl]

style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wavey.gif Hi there, The first thing that I would do is to ask your GP for
a referral to be seen by a dermatologist. If you have almost anything in the connective tissue, Fibro, or Lupus family, a Dermy is going to be your best friend. Your insides are the speciality of your Rheumy.
Your skin is the speciality of your Dermy, and believe me, from my own experience, he can become your best friend. If he thinks something is suspicious, he can take a biopsy. He has given me creams that can go only on the outside of my mouth (my lips crack open at the sides, and he gives me something seperate, that is safe enough to go on the inside of my mouth (mouth sores ). I do hope that all works out for you.



Be well and keep posting. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif

[Clare.T]

I'd have thought the chances are good that it's lupus related especially since you already have discoid lupus. Do you mean on eyelids as well ?

I have quite bad SCLE lesions, not right under my eyes but on the boney area just below socket. There can even be discoid on eyelids, like blepharitis.

Protecting your eyes as much as possible might help, with a very broad brimmed hat and UV reducing glasses and plenty of first rate sun block on those areas, which you might have to renew more frequently than elsewhere. It's a nuisance because you don't want the sunblock to get in your eyes. That area isn't easy to make up well either.
See your doctor.

Clare

[lesleyc]

thanks everyone, as usual you guys don't make me feel stupid or like a hypocondriac (sp?) and it's very much appeciated!!


clare t,
i do get i on my eyelids too it starts either on top or right underneath my eyes and goes around the rim. right now it's under my eye in the inner corner. it's very irritating, and embarrassing.

and yes sunscreen is so important, i have gotten it in my eyes, wow that stings.

i have a dermy, but i haven't gone for so long i'll have to get another referral i guess.

thanks
lesley