I've developed this rash - like tiny midge bites over the last few weeks. Very itchy, respond to antihistamine cream. I think it must be midges - Scotland, warmer weather, it would make sense wouldnt it.
But it does coincide with starting injectable methotrexate. I'm getting 20 mgs which is the same as I took in pill form and am wondering if this actually means an increase in dosage, Do you think I should show it to my GP? It doesnt look much like the pictures you see online of mtxate rashes.
Yes given your history with rashes etc i think you should. 20mgs is a high dose of injectable MTX because its much more potent by injection so there's an outside chance it could be a reaction. Definitely worth flagging up as better safe and all that..! X
Not in May surely?!! And certainly not this May - its perishing! Tilda x
Weve got biting flying things in our laurel/clematis thing by my window. Hardy blighters!
Yes Cathie, we have the swarms of the little blighters in the garden, i think all this rain brings them out. I sometimes get red marks more like blotches around my ankles specially if i have had socks on that have irritated and the itch is terrible although i get it on my shins too.
Where areyou? They seem to have survived the winter here in edinburgh and have toughened up. Ill still check whether its got any relation to mtxate tho!
Yes best to get it checked anyway. I am in Glasgow Cathie, although we seem to get more rain here than you do in Edinburgh and it's brought the midgies are out in full force here. x
Bites on your ankles can mean fleas - they hatch out of carpets and jump on the nearest mammal, ankles are fair game! xxx
Yes I know about fleas because our cats once had them it was murder. Maybe I picked them up from a friends car because she has these lovely, smelly dogs... Just a thought! Thanks for that.
Hi Cathie
From time to time over the years I have had a similar rash exactly as you describe but it usually goes after a few days and I have always felt that it was drug related. But you've had some good advice and best to get it checked.
Ailsa
Thanks! I'll do what I've been told!! I can find explanations for it being both transmitted by friendly dogs, or our cat or drug related! So the cat gets flea treatment and I see the GP!
Hope you're doing well, Ailsa.
C
i've had a few weird bites appear over the past week too - there's definatly a plauge of midges in my garden but i don't remember being bitten 
they'r e not flea bites - at least i don't think so - i was wondering if it was some kind of mite biting me and i think they bit me when i was sitting on the step in my garden. i hope you find out what it is.
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