Weird Symptom

[Lainey3615]

Hi everyone, just a bit of a weird question, has anyone suffered with itching and weird heat like spots growing on the side where their Cancer is. I have six clusters on my left hand side of the body which look like heat spots and itching. It may just be a freak coincidence but thought I would ask 😄😄 xx

[tilstongal]

Hi Lainey,

Since my cancer I have had small red spots on my tummy and rh side like small blood blisters. They don't itch. I have also had an itch on my back same side which no amount of scratching helps, there is nothing to see but it has been there for several years. Are these connected to the cancer? Who knows?!

Tilstongal x 😊

[Lainey3615 in reply to tilstongal]

Hi Tilstongal, mine are more like heat spots but have, what looks like a scab, in the middle. Going to see my Dr on Wednesday so will ask her what it is. The itching is like coming off of morphine, a weird thing. Will let you know if it is just a freak coincidence.

Hugs Elaine xxx 😃

[Peterkin102 in reply to Lainey3615]

Could it be shingles? Most of us with cancer do have low immune systems and many developed this post chemo or surgery. My wife did after her lobectomy.

Best wishes

Peter.

[Lainey3615 in reply to Peterkin102]

Thanks Peter, not shingles, thankfully, as just at one side of the body and nowhere else.

Kind regards

Elaine x

[Lainey3615 in reply to Peterkin102]

Hi Peterkin102 it was Shingles after all that, horrible, nasty and very sore but glad it was something like this and not a sinister thing.

Kind regards

Elaine

[Peterkin102 in reply to Lainey3615]

Hope you get well soon.

Peter

[Lakeslover]

My husband had something which sounds similar. He saw his GP and a dermatologist and they said it was folliculitis caused by the tumour. Some steroid cream cleared it up.

[Lainey3615 in reply to Lakeslover]

Thank you for your reply, will mention this to my doctor and get some cream to help get rid of it.

Love Elaine xx

[Hoolet]

Hi, I had terrible itching and have had various rashes since having chemo/ radiotherapy. I was given gabapentin for peripheral neuropathy and the only thing these tablets have helped is the itching 😊

[Lainey3615 in reply to Hoolet]

Ho Hoolet, unfortunately Gabapentin I have a big allergy to. Seems to be a common problem with lung cancer patients so I am glad I am able to talk to people, like yourself, and not feel so ugh about it. I hope you are doing well 😄 xx

[Hidden]

Hi Elaine, I developed spots as you described all over the front of my torso about 5 weeks ago which the doctors diagnosed folliculitis and given a 2 week course of penicillin. The spots are just starting to ease of now.

Rab

[Lainey3615 in reply to Hidden]

Hi Rab, glad your spots are easing off now. Don't mind the spots but the itching is horrendous. Hopefully this will clear up with steroid cream or penicillin. Filled a hot water bottle with ice, put a tea towel around the bottle and put it behind my back, bliss for a while.

Thanks for reply and hope you are doing well.

Elaine xx