We take our skin organ for granted don't we? 

When you are checking reactions to things, you might include what cleaning & maintenance products you use. Many have 2-butoxyethanol (aka ethylene glycol monobutyl ether) and when you have been around too much, it causes a rash. This rash can go away, and then when you get too much of any chemical in your system (even medications) it can signal your body that 'you had better stop that'

Use this chart to check for this chemical in things you could be using every day CAS #111-76-2 and for its compound form 112-34-5 Any concentration 5% & more is not safe for home use; maybe 2.5% on the complex version.

If you must use them (not recommended by EPA & CA study done ... avoid if possible) be sure to have ventilation equivalent to outdoors; and wear goggles and chemical retardant gloves.

Sounds like you had too much chemical exposure in the second shot you got. A friend of mine told me that long years ago her sister had an allergic reaction to penicillin. When she told her doctor he ignored her complaint and gave her another shot of it; the family believes it caused her to have lupus & she was ill ever since then.

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Here's a 'head start'

http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/products_hazard_chemicals.htm

In the case of 2-butoxyethanol, someone said it kills the fat cells,

and that is why the skin thereafter is 'leathery' 

That there is a common name used in the oil industry for such.

2-8-04