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does anyone else feel like they just get warmer than everyone else in general? like yes, when i’m overheated (which doesn’t make much…) my hands and feet get super red/hot, but in general i’m just always SO much warmer. like why is my family’s house at 72 right now and i’m literally warm when my sister has a thick ass sweater and feels fine 💀

so two years ago i developed what i believe is the harold patch of pityriasis rosea. it is very small and on my leg, and as far as i know this is something that is NOT contagious or harmful, thankfully. although i read once that it can indicate something harmful, like lingering infection in the body for example (idk how true that is).

anyways, i know it’s pityriasis rosea because it fits all the descriptions - and it temporarily spreads into a rash down my leg anytime i take hot showers, and then goes away after 10 minutes or so (besides the harold patch.

anyways, EVERY video i’ve never watched, even by dermatologists, say there’s no treatment …:,) literally just that you can take vitamin d (done), wait it out (clearly done that), and that there is not other treatment… which is so annoying. i’m just supposed to have it forever? it annoys me and i’m always worried people are going to think it’s ringworm when it’s not (trust me i had ring worm as a kid from a water park and it looked way grosser and went away with antifungals, but normal people don’t know that and just see: prickly red circle)

sooooooo any further insight would be really helpful 😭 i’m tired of other doctors online basically saying to wait it out when it’s been years. i’ve actually only seen my family physician for it but she alsooo said there’s no treatment so i shouldn’t even bother doing anything as long as it doesn’t cause pain (bruh. a girl can’t be insecure??)

*i am a 20 yr old female, 120 lbs, 5’5, i’m on no medications, i don’t smoke or drink - i have other illnesses but they’re also kind of unknown/untreatable/‘chronic’. only known/diagnosed illness is erythromelalgia but that started years prior and seems unrelated ish

so i’ve had em for over 4 years, but it’s gotten WAY WORSE the last 2. i recently was researching and i found out that there was a case where em was treated through doing an e****ndoscopic lumbar sympathectomy (idk why this is being censored it won’t let me write it) surgery. i’m not that smart and idk much about it, but basically they cut somewhere in the body to remove a chain/the lumbar ganglia nerves (the patient only had em in his lower half but i think it’s something similar for upper body em).

anyways… the patient, through photos, didn’t seem to have nearly as bad of a case as me, who’s hands and feet both turn BRIGHT hot red at the sensation of any heat at all… literally from long walks, temp above 70° ish, hot showers, anything. but the patient ended up having a 95% reduction of symptoms after the 4 month mark, so maybe it would help with me?

i know this is reddit, but has anyone done this procedure or have any insight on it? does anyone know the risks of it? i’m probably going to contact the surgeon eventually and ask more specific stuff even though he’s in another country 💀 i’m desperate as hell