Weird Rash

[NightShiftNurse 11]

I noticed this morning that I had a weird rash break out all over my abdomen. Anyone else have anything like this? It's not itchy, but hundreds of red bumps. Already took some Benadryl with no effect. Guess I'll call the doc in the morning.

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Weird, but I have similar and have for a couple months. Is your skin extremely dry around the bumps?

[NWgirl 574]

I have eczema and if it gets bad it does what you've described.

[NightShiftNurse 11]

Well I don't think it's eczema. This appears like an allergic reaction to something... I think it's funny that it's occurring on the place where I had surgery.

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That's exactly what I think I might have, stephyanders. What weird is, it's on my abdomen and it's only started over the last couple months since surgery. That's why I was wondering if NightShiftNurse has similar.

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NightShiftNurse, is yours around the incisions specifically? Mine is in blotches across my lower abdomen.

[NightShiftNurse 11]

It's on my abdomen and both flanks. Reddened, raised, dry. It's diffuse throughout and I'm wondering if it's a reaction to the IV antibiotics I got in the hospital or the pain meds. Though, I've never had a reaction like this to oxycodone. Hmmm.

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Sounds like mine almost exactly. I have been putting lotion on it and keeping it very clean, but it's been there for a couple months now.

[ellendeette 1]

I can relate to these posts. When I had my first band placed, a day or two out of the hospital and I was at home, I discovered itchy little bumps filled with Fluid. Wouldn't you know it was a Saturday. I thought I would go insane with the itching. I also took Benydryl. Nothing I took made a difference. It was on a Sunday when it was really getting bad so I called my dermatologist, internist, and bariatric surgeon. Do not take a hot or overly warm shower. It made it worse! I would put the shower on my chest but it just pounded with pain.

I was bent on going to the ER with it but my dermatologist told me to come in the following morning. I seemed to make it barely through the night without going to the ER. She treated me for the rash. I think she put my anti-biotics and a rash cream.

To this day, I do not know what caused it. My doctors came up with all kinds of reasons. In my heart of hearts, I really thought I was allergic to the band! It was a foreign object and plastic that maybe my body was rejecting. I was thinking some pretty strange things.

After the rash left, my internist said it could have been from being put under (the drugs they used) or the pain medication in the hospital. I took no pain medication after my surgery so that could not have been it. I have had four prior surgeries on my knees and I never had a reaction like that before. It really freaked me out. My dermatologist is the one who treated me. I went around and around on the phone with my internist. They thought maybe I caught something in the hospital.

It finally went away but I will never forget that itching. I was so miserable! I would suggest if its driving absolutely mad, to go to the ER otherwise hang in there until your doctor can look at it. Good luck! Please post again to tell us how you are doing.

[Kristih 2]

That happend to my aunt after her surgery...it was a latex allergy....u might have had the same reaction....

[GermaineF 25]

that happened to me few days after my surgery. it was HORRIBLE...Benedryl did not work. Had to go back in to my surgeons office and he removed the glue on my incisions, but me on a steroid and it cleared up in a few days...

[amandacoop 6]

I had a red bumpy diffuse rash all over my belly the day after surgery. I think it was from the betadine they swab you with before surgery but couldn't be sure. It itched a tiny bit but not too bad, went away at about ten days. Not sure but it can't be the oxycodone because I am still taking that at nightime only.

[kadeez 2]

I had these too & only had them on my upper abdomen where my incisions are. I was banded on the 23rd & they are just now going away. They never really itched or anything, so I just figured they were a reaction to the adhesives on the bandages they used which I have had before.