Serial Starters

I'm back at the gym, still walking, counting calories and beginning to see the scale inch downwards. Feeling encouraged!

Hi all, Happy Friday,

It has been a while since I posted last, I hope everyone is well and would like to say hi to any newcomers.

...boy oh boy have a got a whopper of a story...sorry for how lengthy it is...

Well since my last post I became very ill, my skin broke out. I have had psoriasis & eczema since I was about 14 ish, has always been the same patchy scaly breakouts mixed with the eczema, no biggie right...however the past couple years I have noticed something different with my breakouts but nothing alarming, just thought I was experiencing more eczema breakouts that psoriasis.

This past Feb my skin broke out with the same red liquid filled bubbles as it has a couple time in the past couple years, even my dermatologist had no clue what it was I was sent to an allergy dr who couldn't test for anything because by the time I saw him my skin was clear. Well my skin started to break out again in July, just before our possession date of our new house (great timing right!!), I contacted my dermatologist on a Friday and got in to see her the same day, she took a biopsy and said she would let me know the results when she received them. Over that weekend my skin flared up so bad, imagine a sunburn with blisters, so sore then the blisters dry up and the skin starts to peal and becomes extremely itchy that you have no control over scratching because you have to...but when you do it feels so good for a split second, then becomes so sore while still not satisfying the itch!

This started out on my lower torso then moved to my upper torso, my arms, then neck & shoulders at this point on the Monday I contacted the dermatologist and found out she doesn't work on Mondays so I had to go to my regular dr. because I was so swelled up I couldn't fit any of my work clothing & called in sick to work & of course needed a dr. note (really bad timing because my manager thought I was faking it because I needed to prepare for my move), as soon as he saw me he wanted to put me in the hospital because he had no idea what was going on or what would cause a react like this. I convinced him not to put me in the hospital on the terms that I would see the dermatologist and send her pics of my skin.

I did just that & she called me into the office the next morning, obviously biopsy still hadn't come back & we didn't know what was going on, so she prescribed me medication and issued me more cream as I went through my whole 450g tub over the weekend...this lasted about 2-3 weeks from the time I started noticing my skin breakout....I was off work for that week, (any longer I would need to go on short term disability & didn't want that). We moved that weekend and I felt horrible because I couldn't even help...I was more in the way than anything & my skin was still breaking out, but it was starting to heal on my torso and other areas that were first affected. And so the saga continued I was broken out on my upper legs progressing downwards so I went back to work for 1 day (it was a Monday just after our move). I was so unbelievably uncomfortable the swelling has progressed downward even more and my legs were like tree trunks I could hardly walk, actually there was a few days I could only handle walking to the washroom...or more waddle & even then it felt like my legs would split open from the pressure (if I didn't know any better my first thought would have been renal failure as my legs looked exactly like my mom's did when she started swelling up due to her renal failure) I was supposed to work on the Tuesday and had booked holidays for the rest of the week. Lets just say I was in tears by the time I got home (to the new house, I had to wait 45 min outside in +34 heat waiting for my new bus). I texted my manager & told her I was not coming in & I would be going back to the dermatologist on Tuesday.

The Derm dr. said I had a very rare/sever form of psoriasis called Pustular Psoriasis & she had only come across 2 cases in her whole working career....yay me!!! She gave me a steroid shot and a dr. note to be off work until yesterday. Since then my skin has cleared up or rather I have shed my old skin & now have/getting new skin (I feel like a reptile), my swelling on my legs has dissipated and is almost gone, not completely but at least I can wear my work clothes now & my running shoes with minimal discomfort & my fur babies can sit & walk on my legs again...poor things had no idea what was going on.

Well after all this I am scared to step on the scale, the last time I did it was just before my breakout & I was at 254 after working so hard to lose weight I really hate to see where I am at now...but I am going to wait until I am completely healed before attempting to face the scale...lol

That's enough for now (probably too much)

waving to everyone who follows

~Saltine~

First things first.. @Saltine24 hang on there. Hope they find what's causing this problem. It seems very uncomfortable and life halting.

Good news .... I lost 6 pds.

SW... 240
CW... 234
GW... 145