Dec 29, 2001  Doodle:

Three weeks after I started a new job, I began getting a red rash on the front of my legs.  I also had a flu shot, and had a terrible reaction from that where my arm swelled up, got red and hot.  Didn't get better for 5 days.  Red rash, which seems to get worse every day, has spread all over my body.  It is unsightly and I seemed to get a little better after a weekend at home.  Now it seems to be there all the time.  The red spots actually look like they have lines of hemorrhaging from one spot to the other and there are new spider veins on my legs that are red, too.  All of the red dots eventually turn to brown and stay brown.  It looks terrible as I have always had perfect skin.  Never even had acne as a teenager.  I tend to think it comes from the place where I work, as when I come in each morning, and especially over the weekend, there is a strong chemical smell.  There is a large hole in the wall above me which goes to nothing but the other parts of the building (I'm next door to a printing company).  This is an old warehouse turned into half warehouse and half office.  There is also an old janitor's sink 4 ft. from my desk.  There are no windows, so I open the "garage type" door and leave it partly open all day.  This gets worse sometimes and I also have cramps in my legs, feet and neck at times.  Headaches have started now in the past few weeks (I have been there since Sept. 25, 2001).  My dermatologist sent me to Occupational Health Doctor and he looked at one arm and one shoulder and said it looked like sun damage.  It is driving me crazy with itching and just the looks of it.  Especially my face and chest.

Has anyone else ever had such a thing.  My boss seems to think I've lost it, but I can't wear my new New Year's dress because my chest is covered with hemorrhaging and red dots and brown spots.

Help, someone!

Doodle

I hope you didn't stay long at that work site. I would suspect you were getting exposed to some of the chemicals from the printing company. A rash is sometimes how a person's body complains about too much of some kind of chemical exposure .... AND ... so are headaches

 
I hope you check back and let us know how you are doing.  I would be very concerned about the work environment you describe.  Sounds like you are getting exposed to the print chemicals, and that can cause a lot of health damage, even more than you have described



Sandy worked at a print company, and I think it caused here to have serious autoimmune hemolytic anemia & memory problems

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This is the only post of "Doodle" on web help forum.  I strongly suspect she couldn't live much longer, and that she should have paid attention to her body,  and left the job immediately - before this post .... that had no replies to it

Even tumors and blood disorders would be possible

 

Rash - Need Help

Do we have some 'wrong medical views' today? 

Why Horrible Headaches?  *

Poster's Question:  medhelp.org/posts/show/241020?personal_page_id=189236&post_id=post_1604404