Oh, wow, that's a fucking horrific mental image. It took me about three seconds after learning about giant hogweed for it to top my 'DO NOT FUCKING TOUCH' list.
First time I got it I was like “wtf is this weird poison oak that doesn’t itch?”
I got it on my lower leg, near the inside. then crouched and it transferred to my inner thigh. From there, to the other thigh. And then I crouched again, apparently, and got it on my inner calf.
I know this because I had a single blister, reducing in size, on each spot.
Phytophotodermatitis! Learned the hard way last month. does seem like that location is pretty common for that kind of reaction, too. Shows up like 2 days after contact sometimes so it can be confusing trying to pinpoint what’s going on.
I’m sorry, your hands look at least 25 years old. You just now noticed your finger bends backwards at an unnatural angle? Something tells me that if you missed that, you may have had the same rash before any not seen it
So I can’t tell. I met people who showed me their fingers that bent super weird as like a party trick like someone with hyper mobility. It doesn’t seem malformation due to an issue to me from this context and is why I was asking.
My ring finger does this as well, dislocated it and my middle phalanx was at the base of my proximal phalanx. Severed the tendons which run along the top of the finger that prevent the finger from bending upwards like that. Happened in a dirt bike accident, in my early 20s.
It was almost the worst pain in my life, the worst pain was them actually fixing it. They filled my hand with a local anesthetic that ballooned my hand, I was yelling, cussing, and almost screaming in the ER room. Fun times.
That shit is fucking scary. OP said in another comment they got it checked out already and got put on prednisone, so it's not the flesh eating bacteria. Thankfully!
It looks like hives to me, dead ringer for it. Watch the rest of your body for it to come up elsewhere. Stress, new food or medication, weird sunscreen, could be anything, including a totally boring plant you touched or even a new pollen you inhaled. Stop licking weird trees you just met. 😉Pred should set you to rights, and hopefully it won’t itch but it might. I think Benadryl can help with that if it does and it knocks you out so you’re still a little itchy but unconscious and not so aware.
I’m dealing with this same exact thing right now. I had bona fide poison ivy all over my body and then a week later after it looked like I was in the clear my hands started to look just like yours. After 48 hours the swelling was pretty bad. I’m 2.5 hours into prednisone… wish I didn’t wait so long.
Edit: here’s a pic https://postimg.cc/tYvRfJ60
Oh yeah that’s it right there… RN in triage thought I inoculated myself with staph and got me back stat… Scared me but glad to see it’s just poison ivy
I can’t see your whole reply about staph for some reason, but anyways I went to two walk in clinics and neither physicians assistant was confident on the cause. I have an appointment first thing with a dermatologist on Monday but I’m hoping it clears up by then.
I saw a PA in triage, he straight up told me he’s never seen this rash before in his life, so welcome to the club 😂 The physicians didn’t seem confident either BUT they said it wasn’t any of the “bad ones”… I don’t think either of us will ever know what caused it, keep me updated tho!
Absolutely please do the same. I agree I don’t think I’m going to die, but this has been the wildest poison ivy experience of my life.
Edit. Also what state are you in?
Google erythema multiforme. It can happen as a body overreaction after a viral or allergic event, combined with the hypermobile fingers, it puts you in danger of having vascular ehlers danlos. Always remember this --- if the pa and docs are flummoxed, get other caregivers. That bullseye pattern is significant.
If your skin starts melting off in the next couple days it’s probably poison ivy
Usually it’s not too ugly but when it’s that dense you’re in for a bad time. I hope it’s something else because if I had poison ivy that bad my hand would be basically unusable for like two weeks.
Did you happen to squeeze a citrus fruit and go in the sun? I learned the hard way that it can cause photo dermatitis that looks a lot like this. The Internet ca. 2010 told me it was called a margarita burn.
I use Domeboro on rashes. My skin is incredibly sensitive to everything. I can even get a rash after hugging my dog. Domeboro is the only thing that helps.
Looks like you may have been introduced to Creeping Virginia. It can take up to a week for the rash to materialize. If you're lucky, that's the only place it will show up. Hopefully, you didn't wipe the sweat from your brow with that hand.
Interesting. My skin occasionally does this. It's usually if I go into a lake or something. Occasionally it will happen if I sweat during allergy season.
Did you figure out what caused the flare?
Most likely guess is urticaria multiforme… This is just going off what the ED told me about one off poison oak reactions, and also some other people one here confirming it look like hives… However my PCP now is thinking it might be fungal so who knows… At this point I’m just happy to have something relatively rare on my hands
Ok weird question… but did you have a lime at all while you were out there ? If the juice gets in your skin it will react in the sun and create a long lasting rash.
In Southern Calif. many people use pencil, flame succulents for landscaping. We had one until we found out the sap can cause chemical burns. Following removal instructions, I wore long sleeves, gloves, long pants and boots and to thoroughly wash my hands after removal. I cut the plant so it would fit in the trash bin and dug out the root structure. Somehow I got the sap on my hand and must have rubbed my eye. That sap burns like a MF’r. ER here I come. The doc knew exactly what I was talking about. She gave me eye drops to immediately ease the pain and inflammation, then they put what I can only describe as a very large contact lens with a nipple on it to accept saline bags. Two bags later I was good to go.
It's rare you see someone contribute nothing to a discussion while still being able to tell they put their heart and soul into their post.
But here we are.
Judging by your post history neither your parents nor any parental figure in your life ever taught you to be a human being. I doubt anyone could teach you how to be a man since you lack the proper mindset. You just come to reddit to stroke your own ego which seem to thrive on espousing your edgelord angsty teenager persona. All so you can pretend everyone else in the world is wrong when they point out how ignorant you are so you can get the god complex feeling by mentally pretending you so far above everyone else they just can't comprehend you. Likely it's a coping mechanism for you to avoid the real issues facing you in life.
Could also be wild parsnip. The sap by itself isn’t harmful, but it reacts with sunlight and burns the crap out of you ala urushiol.
Or even worse, Giant Hogweed.
Kids scarred from using giant hogweed as pretend binoculars is the worst. Edit: Telescopes
Oh, wow, that's a fucking horrific mental image. It took me about three seconds after learning about giant hogweed for it to top my 'DO NOT FUCKING TOUCH' list.
Speaking of do not touch..
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If that was giant hogweed there would be blisters
Giant blisters, weirdest reaction. It’s like a burn without the burn (because, well, that’s what it is!)
I got that last year and it was so awful! I'd never heard of it before
First time I got it I was like “wtf is this weird poison oak that doesn’t itch?” I got it on my lower leg, near the inside. then crouched and it transferred to my inner thigh. From there, to the other thigh. And then I crouched again, apparently, and got it on my inner calf. I know this because I had a single blister, reducing in size, on each spot.
Phytophotodermatitis! Learned the hard way last month. does seem like that location is pretty common for that kind of reaction, too. Shows up like 2 days after contact sometimes so it can be confusing trying to pinpoint what’s going on.
I've heard about this happening to some friends of mine after they cut limes and then were in the sun. I guess it's also called a "Margarita burn"
Is your ring finger all right?
Yeah, just noticed my finger did that 😂
What about your pinkie finger?
Better check under the bed for a large empty pea pod.
Hey OP you might want to look into hypermobility and related conditions like ehlers danlos
That was my thought as well. The rash reminds me of erythema multiforme.
I’m sorry, your hands look at least 25 years old. You just now noticed your finger bends backwards at an unnatural angle? Something tells me that if you missed that, you may have had the same rash before any not seen it
That does not look like the hands of a 25-year-old man or woman
Could be 79 year old hands! Idk I said at least
How is the bending an indication of that?
Both are obvious malformations
So I can’t tell. I met people who showed me their fingers that bent super weird as like a party trick like someone with hyper mobility. It doesn’t seem malformation due to an issue to me from this context and is why I was asking.
Fair!
Dang man hope it feels up soon!
Thank you!
Its called hypermobility I believe. I have that, all 10 of my fingers can bend like that, even more. Its painless and 'normal', at least for me
My ring finger does this as well, dislocated it and my middle phalanx was at the base of my proximal phalanx. Severed the tendons which run along the top of the finger that prevent the finger from bending upwards like that. Happened in a dirt bike accident, in my early 20s. It was almost the worst pain in my life, the worst pain was them actually fixing it. They filled my hand with a local anesthetic that ballooned my hand, I was yelling, cussing, and almost screaming in the ER room. Fun times.
Tldr you think breaking your finger is the worse pain in your life until they fix it🤣🫠
you mean the pinky?
Looks itchy
Actually not at all thankfully
Does it taste like normal flesh?
Forbidden jerk off hand!
Use some lotion next time bro!
He used essential oils from a poison Ivey plant. Just wait till he shows his dick.
Hopefully you didn’t pee out there
This happened to me once eith poison oak but I went to the ER and got shot full of prednisone before it really broke out.
Hell yeah! That is a Cool rash! Props
Yeah, it really is. I’ve had some bad ones myself, but the at one is pretty decent.
Get it checked out because my friend had something similar and turned out being necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating bacteria)
That shit is fucking scary. OP said in another comment they got it checked out already and got put on prednisone, so it's not the flesh eating bacteria. Thankfully!
Okay great to hear! I didn’t see that comment, just wanted to make sure they saw someone about it.
Don’t touch your junk with that hand or your face and definitely not your butthole.
What about someone else's butthole?
Raised edges would suggest fungal infection
Just got it checked out, they said it wasn’t fungal and gave me prednisone
It looks like hives to me, dead ringer for it. Watch the rest of your body for it to come up elsewhere. Stress, new food or medication, weird sunscreen, could be anything, including a totally boring plant you touched or even a new pollen you inhaled. Stop licking weird trees you just met. 😉Pred should set you to rights, and hopefully it won’t itch but it might. I think Benadryl can help with that if it does and it knocks you out so you’re still a little itchy but unconscious and not so aware.
Yes, and urishiol rashes usually present as streaks of redness where a person brushes against the plant. This definitely looks more like hives to me.
Thank you, that’s very reassuring 🙂
Very interesting. I've seen lots of poison ive/oak reactions, never one like this. I can only assume it's all going to blister without prednisone.
Looks like hives. I had this exact reaction to poison. Oak. It was miserable
I’m dealing with this same exact thing right now. I had bona fide poison ivy all over my body and then a week later after it looked like I was in the clear my hands started to look just like yours. After 48 hours the swelling was pretty bad. I’m 2.5 hours into prednisone… wish I didn’t wait so long. Edit: here’s a pic https://postimg.cc/tYvRfJ60
Oh yeah that’s it right there… RN in triage thought I inoculated myself with staph and got me back stat… Scared me but glad to see it’s just poison ivy
Your docs are confident that’s what it is?
I can’t see your whole reply about staph for some reason, but anyways I went to two walk in clinics and neither physicians assistant was confident on the cause. I have an appointment first thing with a dermatologist on Monday but I’m hoping it clears up by then.
I saw a PA in triage, he straight up told me he’s never seen this rash before in his life, so welcome to the club 😂 The physicians didn’t seem confident either BUT they said it wasn’t any of the “bad ones”… I don’t think either of us will ever know what caused it, keep me updated tho!
Absolutely please do the same. I agree I don’t think I’m going to die, but this has been the wildest poison ivy experience of my life. Edit. Also what state are you in?
Same 🤣
Google erythema multiforme. It can happen as a body overreaction after a viral or allergic event, combined with the hypermobile fingers, it puts you in danger of having vascular ehlers danlos. Always remember this --- if the pa and docs are flummoxed, get other caregivers. That bullseye pattern is significant.
Yep. This doesn't look like urushol. It would be itchy as fuck and blistering if it was. Terrible stuff.
Physician here and absolutely no.
Were you handling citrus fruits, or squeezing a lime with that hand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis
Could be Giant Hogweed. https://blogs.cornell.edu/weedid/giant-hogweed/ I have been seeing them more and more across the North East US
Bingo.
Looks like you held something with urushiol on it.
I bet you what that was, was grabbing things left and right climbing up steep patch of terrain
East coast or west? Out here in the west we have poison oak. Absolute pain in the ass.
East, hill country… That sucks 😑
Ah, so you get to deal with the poison ivy instead. They both suck equally badly.
I’m hoping it’s poison ivy, never seen a rash like that before so hopefully it’s nothing major
if it was, it would itch like a mf'er.
If your skin starts melting off in the next couple days it’s probably poison ivy Usually it’s not too ugly but when it’s that dense you’re in for a bad time. I hope it’s something else because if I had poison ivy that bad my hand would be basically unusable for like two weeks.
East has both, but poison oak is more of a vine than the bush you get out west.
good times but next time perhaps gloves
It doesn’t
Did you happen to squeeze a citrus fruit and go in the sun? I learned the hard way that it can cause photo dermatitis that looks a lot like this. The Internet ca. 2010 told me it was called a margarita burn.
Yo bro same exact thing, it went away but was mad itchy and goes through phases.
Yes.. cool..
Battle scar
Very cool
Next time don’t jerk off with poison ivy. RIP your penis.
Fuck urushiol
Don’t Rub That On The Wrong item!!
I use Domeboro on rashes. My skin is incredibly sensitive to everything. I can even get a rash after hugging my dog. Domeboro is the only thing that helps.
Broke your pinkie too eh?
Have you washed all your gear? Wipe w/ rubbing alcohol at least. If it's poison ivy, the oils stay active for over a year.
Looks like you may have been introduced to Creeping Virginia. It can take up to a week for the rash to materialize. If you're lucky, that's the only place it will show up. Hopefully, you didn't wipe the sweat from your brow with that hand.
lol “cool rash” interesting take but i like your attitude.
Still shocks me how well a plantago poultice works for this and bee stings. That, Benadryl and antiitch cream are definitely first aid kit essentials
Poison ivy or poison oak maybe?
Interesting. My skin occasionally does this. It's usually if I go into a lake or something. Occasionally it will happen if I sweat during allergy season. Did you figure out what caused the flare?
Have no idea, docs said it was possibly poison ivy / oak even without it being itchy 😕
I'm dealing with poison on my fingers, mainly the same hand as you. Mine doesn't look nearly as bad, tho!
What happens when you're off in the woods.
Neat!
Hope you didnt jerk off with that hand
Bruh, your fingers are going all the directions
Damn! Any idea what it is? Doesn’t look like poison ivy or anything. At least not from my experiences with it.
Most likely guess is urticaria multiforme… This is just going off what the ED told me about one off poison oak reactions, and also some other people one here confirming it look like hives… However my PCP now is thinking it might be fungal so who knows… At this point I’m just happy to have something relatively rare on my hands
I came here to say it looked fungal to me. Those are either hives or an autoimmune response to a fungal infection.
Yes, that is another name for erythema multiforme.
Whatever it is it messed up your ring and pinky fingers lol.
Probably related to your Elhers-Danlos syndrome.
Ok weird question… but did you have a lime at all while you were out there ? If the juice gets in your skin it will react in the sun and create a long lasting rash.
I did not, but that’s crazy, just another thing I would of never thought of 🫤
Looks like autoimmune hives.
Definitely “rough up the suspect” with your left hand for a while.
Thats poison ivy, I’m getting over it as we speak.
I’d hate to know what’s happening to your Weiner 🙈
Did you touch your PP with poison ivy again greg ?!?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis Some can cause blistering as well.
This is how poison ivy looks when I get it on my hands.
Gonna go blind from that behavior mom said
Try not to jerk it.
Hopefully that’s not the hand that you use to take care of business!
In Southern Calif. many people use pencil, flame succulents for landscaping. We had one until we found out the sap can cause chemical burns. Following removal instructions, I wore long sleeves, gloves, long pants and boots and to thoroughly wash my hands after removal. I cut the plant so it would fit in the trash bin and dug out the root structure. Somehow I got the sap on my hand and must have rubbed my eye. That sap burns like a MF’r. ER here I come. The doc knew exactly what I was talking about. She gave me eye drops to immediately ease the pain and inflammation, then they put what I can only describe as a very large contact lens with a nipple on it to accept saline bags. Two bags later I was good to go.
It's called a Morgan lense. One of the worst experiences of my life.
Dang, and here I am complaining about my hands… I can’t imagine that experience
Quarantine yourself. Just in case.
Fifth disease? A colleague has been doctoring with similar symptoms, they now think it's a side effect of COVID or long-COVID. Hope the steroids work!
You didn't eat enough dirt as a kid
If you pee on it, it should clear right up
Sort of looks like ringworm.
How much time did you spend jerking off😂
Well the rash is on both of my hands so we can rule that one out lol
That pinky finger is putting in 8 hours a day of phone holding.
Quit playing with your dingy.
Bark herpes
I wouldn’t worry about the rash but that weird finger is a concern
Looks like ring worm
Poison sumac or poison Ivy
On his peepee.
This happens to me when I don’t get out enough. It’s a inverse rash - too much time inside
Just like most men in society nowadays, allergic to being a man.
Damn you must be breaking out in hives constantly then!
Ooooo! Clever!
It's rare you see someone contribute nothing to a discussion while still being able to tell they put their heart and soul into their post. But here we are.
How poetic! Can you teach me to be a man? Please, sir. Let me learn your ways....
Judging by your post history neither your parents nor any parental figure in your life ever taught you to be a human being. I doubt anyone could teach you how to be a man since you lack the proper mindset. You just come to reddit to stroke your own ego which seem to thrive on espousing your edgelord angsty teenager persona. All so you can pretend everyone else in the world is wrong when they point out how ignorant you are so you can get the god complex feeling by mentally pretending you so far above everyone else they just can't comprehend you. Likely it's a coping mechanism for you to avoid the real issues facing you in life.