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Originally posted by Butterfly6268: I have been recently diagnosed with erythema nodosum. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about this disease, how to help prevent the marks on the legs and arms from appearing, or knows a good doctor that can help me out with this disease. Please, this is really depressing me.... |
Wanna know something really cool? Your name, "butterfly" is the same as my name. "Projapoti" is butterfly in Bengali!
Anyway, so you have erythema nodosum...it's surprising that they just diagnosed you with that and didn't look for something else. Do you have problems with your bowels, or have you had any other health problems or infections lately? Erythema nodosum is often associated with inflammatory bowel disease, sarcoidosis and also certain streptococcal infections. It can also come from taking antibiotics like sulfa ones.
Now, I guess I'm going to have to wait 'till you answer that, but one thing is, a lot of the time, treatment for the underlying cause will make the red marks go away. There are also some immunosuppressive treatments that can help the erythema nodosum go away too.
[This message has been edited by projapoti (edited 07-29-2003).]