Red hot flushing to the face

[yorkshiregirl44]

Does anyone expereince a red hot burning feeling to the face. It lasts only seconds but is intense.

[PMRpro]

Does the skin also flush? If you are on pred it could be rosacea. I had it whilst I was on a higher dose of pred (20mg) without really realising what it was but it has faded as I have reduced my pred dose. Various things can trigger the flushing - including being in the sun and it is recommended that patients taking pred should use a good sunblock even if you don't normally bother. If you are on high doses of pred then the GP can even prescribe a Factor 50 sunblock for you to use.

These are two good reliable links:

nhs.uk/Conditions/Rosacea/P...

patient.co.uk/health/Rosace...

[yorkshiregirl44 in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks no not on meds....searching to get a diagnosis....flushing does go red and hot usually when i am near heat..the sun or eating something hot...iv always been a very cold person so this is quite unusual for me...first noticed it last summer when i could not tolerate the sun at all.

[AllyGY2013]

I was diagnosed with rosacea years ago, my face would go red for no reason but it didn't burn.

When I was diagnosed with vasculitis I had a red butterfly rash appear on my face which now occurs regularly, especially if I go out in the sun or on a windy day. My face burns when I have this rash. It seems to be less frequent when I am taking plaquenil but never goes away completely lasting hours or days at a time.

At this time of year people assume I've been out in the sun and burnt my face which I haven't and I make sure I use sun cream, cover up and wear a hat to try to protect my face.

[BronteM in reply to AllyGY2013]

This is exactly the same for me....I could have written your post myself. For years I've had a sun rash up my arms and on my legs at the beginning of every summer; after a long cool spell I'll often get a second one. As if being 'inoculated' each year against the sun. Never go brown!

[yorkshiregirl44 in reply to AllyGY2013]

Thanks again..all this is very helpful to me.....for years i was fine in the sun then i noticed red blotchy markings on my shins and feet like i had been burnt yet i had only been in the sun a short while. I also come out in a rash on my face with the sun and lasy year i was overwhelmed by the sun and heat when most could tolerate it.

[PMRpro in reply to yorkshiregirl44]

I have this suspicion that more autoimmune conditions than just lupus make people sensitive to sun - and it is definitely part of lupus. All these things sit on a shelf next to one another and the effects/symptoms get handed down willy-nilly. Which you are diagnosed with depends on which symptoms predominate!

[Hidden]

Very true PMRpro. I posted on here months ago about " hot sweats " etc and I have developed an intermitent facial rash/ redness over the past few months. Unfortunately us females get tagged with pre menopausal or menopausal cause of some of these symptoms. Am making sure that I apply plenty of sunblock this year, that's if Scotland gets any sun.

[PMRpro in reply to Hidden]

Don't tell me about that "it's your age" thing! It infuriates me that as soon as you are over 40 ANYTHING is put down to "your age" or "depression". The fact that all these things involve something going on in the endocrine system as either cause or effect seems to be immaterial. So if you are over 40 and have no "abnormal" blood tests - you can't be anything other than depressed or attention seeking. And the other day on another forum we were discussing how taking a male with you concentrates the mind of far too many doctors and initiates discussion about the problems they dismissed with a roll of the eyes when you were last there alone! Gaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

[AndrewT]

Not much that I can add, to the above, except I 'love' PMPpro's comments- on being over forty...Worse when your over fifty mind!!!

[PMRpro in reply to AndrewT]

PMRpro is now the wrong side of 60 - so I've had all the options for "what do you expect at your age?"

[AndrewT in reply to PMRpro]

Oh I'd better shut up then hadn't I? Hope that you are 'well' now- some joke. kind regards AndrewT

[Wellsie]

I go grey on chemo day and cherry red for 48 hours after my big methyl pred infusion.

I also get very bad head sweats too these days. I mowed the lawn last weekend and after my hair was soaked through. You become quite self conscious.

[PMRpro in reply to Wellsie]

Had I mowed the lawn it wouldn't have just my hair that was wet!

What about an ice-filled scarf like the tennis players were using between games yesterday?

[PhoebeO]

Thanks for this post. My husband has rheumatoid vasculitis and RA and his face gets very red sometimes and I do worry about him. He was only recently diagnosed after being unwell for some time and is now on numerous medications including prednisolone (20mg), methotrexate (25mg), gabapentin, sulfasalazine and hydroxychloroquine. I wonder if it could be the methotrexate that could be causing the redness. He also gets very depressed. He will be changing to methotrexate sub-cut from next week and I have heard that side effects are less than being on the tablets.