Any ideas ?

[Cas70]

Great summer marred by additional symptoms. I appear to have eczema on both hands now, with fingers splitting at the slightest contact. Then last week these welts appeared on my arms. They itch but I don’t scratch. Finally, after a 3 month wait, I have a Consultant who has ordered a battery of tests. I am very grateful but I have to wait for blood results before seeing a Dermatologist. Anyone else have something similar? I have also developed bruising on my inner thighs? No photos you’ll be pleased to hear. I was diagnosed with Discoid Lupus and Sjogren’s 2 years ago.

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Hi Cas. You have been so supportive that I looked at your posts. Went to a BSSA talk by the Scottish Sjögren’s rheum about skin manifestations of SS. There were so many including discoid Lupus, pompholyx eczema etc. Did you manage to find an answer for yours?

I had terrible eczema all the way up until menopause - then I stopped sweating in the usual places and the eczema went away. It came back a few years ago briefly on my palms and lower fingers but I got it under control with steroid cream and an anti fungal used for athletes foot. I knew it was pompholyx / dyshydrotic eczema having had this coming and going all my life on hands and feet. I think it’s often an allergic reaction to contact with oil paints and solvents for me but also hormones and sweat - usually get it worse in summer.

Perhaps yours could be Psoriasis if it’s not in sweat areas? X