I Woke Up This Morning...

[Mike Spinak]

I woke up this morning absolutely covered with an itchy, blotchy, red rash. Thousands and thousands of splotches. What the heck is going on?! This has never happened to me, before.

AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! This is very unpleasant.

Hey, Asher, could you use some medical pictures of this for your records? Describe to me what you need, and I'll make the pics for you.

AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!

Mike

www.mikespinak.com

[Cem_Usakligil]

Get well soon Mike. Hope you don't try using the PS cloning tools to get rid of the unwanted splotches but go see a real doctor instead ;-).

Cheers,

Cem

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

I hope it's not poison ivy/oak, 'cause there is really no cure except for the purely symptomatic itching relief...
Been doing any bush-waking by any creeks lately?
Wish you get better soon in any case!

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

Get well soon Mike. Hope you don't try using the PS cloning tools to get rid of the unwanted splotches but go see a real doctor instead ;-).

Cheers,

Cem

Very a propos :-)!

[Mike Spinak]

Nikolai,

This is not poison oak. As a nature photographer in the Western US, I spend most of my life with some poison oak. I'm quite familiar with it, and this is totally different.

Mike

www.mikespinak.com

[Ray West]

I think its an allergic reation to something, maybe an insect bite, maybe washing powder. I get hayfever antihistamine mayl help, but will not harm, but check with phamasist/doctor. My wife, a nurse, says you're a man, so yo can't be pregnant... What you describe is exactly how I was some years ago due to a reaction to penicillin.
Best wishes,

[Mary Bull]

I think its an allergic reation to something, maybe an insect bite, maybe washing powder. I get hayfever antihistamine mayl help, but will not harm, but check with phamasist/doctor. My wife, a nurse, says you're a man, so yo can't be pregnant... What you describe is exactly how I was some years ago due to a reaction to penicillin.
Best wishes,

My late husband, in 1953, had just such a set of symptoms with a penicillin reaction.

His physician prescribed oatmeal baths--dump a carton of rolled oats (Quaker oats, for instance) in a bathtub of warm (not hot, more like tepid) water and get in and soak.
Would relieve the itching temporarily. But was weeks before he was well of the worst of it.

My best thought to Mike: Present yourself in person at the Emergency Room. Get your personal physician to meet you there.

Concerned in Tennessee,

[Roger Lambert]

at least call your doctor's office, and talk to a nurse to see if you can start to take Benadryl, or the generic form, which is an antihistamine. - she will tell you if it is OK to take it.

She can also get you right in to see the doc, if it is possible - don't deal with the receptionist. :)

[Gary Ayala]

Can we take this offline guys? It's making me itchy. :-(

Nill
~~
www.toulme.net

Yeah... maybe he's Contagious!!!

-G-

[Asher Kelman]

We're in contact, great thoughts from a community that is considerate! Asher

[Roger Lambert]

How is he doing?

[Sean DeMerchant]

Well Mike, I hope you made it to the doctors today. Anyway, take care of yourself and get better.

best wishes,

Sean

[Asher Kelman]

Under control. Will keep you guys informed. :)

Asher

[Mike Spinak]

It looks like there is wireless available in the emergency room. I must look quite dramatic; they were afraid to let me into the emergency room, then they gave me a mask I have to wear, and directed me to what appears to be my own private quarantined area.

I am still waiting to see a doctor. I don't feel awful.

I'll keep you informed. Thanks for the good wishes, everybody, and special thanks to Asher for true friendship as well as informed help.

Mike

[Asher Kelman]

Don't worry. The two most worrysome problems are dealt with by antibiotics.

Rashes always frighten people. email me w84u at mac.com

Waiting for the call!

Asher

[Anita Saunders]

Good wishes going out to you Mike.

I hope it's nothing too serious. Allergic reactions can develop at any time throughout life eg you may eat prawns for years and be fine but one day an allergy develops.

Thinking of you cooped up in quarantine :(

[Mike Spinak]

Thanks, G.

It does not appear to be an allergic reaction.

More, soon.

Mike

[Mary Bull]

Thanks, G.

It does not appear to be an allergic reaction.

More, soon.

Mike

Sincere and on-going good wishes to you.

I'm so glad you went to the ER.

When I had pneumonia last August but didn't know it, I whined around to some mailing-list friends for over a week before I finally did the sensible thing and went to a doctor. Was the advice, delivered with a light touch, of a practicing surgeon in that particular group of friends, that tipped the balance and sent me for practical help.

Get well soon, Mike!

Best wishes always,

[Roger Lambert]

Hot tub episode?

[Mike Spinak]

I've been discharged from the ER, now. By all appearances, I should be fine when I follow the two week course of antibiotics.

Thanks for good advice and warm wishes.

Mike

www.mikespinak.com

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

Good to hear you're back and getting better!
Get well soon! :-)

[Mary Bull]

Good news, Mike!
Please keep on taking good care of yourself.

[Diane Fields]

I've been discharged from the ER, now. By all appearances, I should be fine when I follow the two week course of antibiotics.

Thanks for good advice and warm wishes.

Mike

www.mikespinak.com

Glad to hear it. I've been following your woes. Be well.

Diane

[Asher Kelman]

I'm glad I spoke to Mike and suggested the diagnosis and had him not wait.

A warning, however nature loving we are, rememeber, to protect your self.

I'm starting a new thread for this!

Asher