Did anyone with #Covid get a ton of rashes you can’t explain?
Nothing gets rid of them.
Plenty of other symptoms but this is one that doctors always blame on allergies.
My hair also got intensely dry to the point where it didn’t need washing for 3 weeks. There was no sebum! I had to oil it & leave it in for a week even after using a very rich conditioning treatment.
My nose would also not stop bleeding.
I’m about 2 months into my second infection. Already have #LongCovid.
There is a condition called "chronic hives" or "chronic urticaria". It involves rashes that come and go with no explanation, and is very common.
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They don’t itch though. Hives/ urticaria are meant to itch, right?
Someone just reminded me of #MCAS which is often trigged by #Covid so that would explain a lot.
Possibly just getting rashes for the sake of it.
@halcionandon I suspect a lot of "long covid" is stuff like fibromyalgia being triggered by the bout of COVID.
I already had fibromyalgia since I was born, probably, before I (eventually) caught COVID. So I was simply way more beaten down than usual for a while. :)
@halcionandon @longcovid yes, a few times.
I get red patches that appear, are a little itchy for a few days, them fade. Random places, random times. No pattern or trigger that I can determine. Luckily they're not too bad for me, so just ignore them. But rashes can definitely be a long covid thing.
It messes with heart rate and blood pressure, which might explain the nose bleeds.
The dry hair is a new one on me, but there doesn't seem to be any part of the body it can't affect.
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