Anyone Experience Petechiae?

[brethor9]

Hi all

So for the last little bit I have really been struggling with some new symptoms......rashes, head pressure, numbing of chin and face, pain in neck veins, etc......just in the last couple of days I have noticed these little tiny tiny red dots all over my body....I think its petechiae...anyone ever had this and know what causes it? I see my auto specialist thursday and will ask about it...my internist thinks I could have MCAD could this be related?

Thanks

Bren

[louloutinks]

Hi Bren

I get petechiae. They start off red, turn into bruise coloured spots and fade after about a week. They will be looking into it when I visit London Neuro Hospital.

Have you got them on your lips and inside your mouth too? x

[juliegee]

Hi Bren,

This is an alarming new symptom. Yes, I get petechiae too- usually just under my eyes. It is associated with mast cell disease. Yours sounds quite widely spread & I think it needs to be evaluated ASAP. Heparin is one of the mediators released when mast cells degranulate- may be the cause of what you are experiencing. IF your internist thinks it is appropriate, I might get a work up from a hematologist, who is familiar with mast cell disorders. I'm so sorry things aren't stabilizing. Have you though about visiting a mast cell specialist?

Julie

[brethor9]

Hi Julie

Thanks! All these symptoms are really starting to concern me also.....especially since they just cropped up over the last month or so and are rapidly progressing...something is definately wrong!! Thank god my appt is thursday! I havent started my singulair yet because I have a tooth infection and I am taking antibiotics and to be honest I am really scared to do anything right now!

Tinks- hope you get some answers soon also hugs!!

Bren

[HopeSprings]

Petechiae could arise from a drug reaction. Did it start before or after the antibiotics? When my POTS crisis began I developed TONS of little red pinpoint dots - I thought they were petechiae. I still have them. I have been told they are just cherry hemangiomas, but I swear they weren't there before - all of a sudden (within days) I get them everywhere? Just weird.

[lgtaylor100]

I got the red pinpoint dots at about the same time that my POTS symptoms started also. I have been told that they are age related (although that excuse wouldn't work for you, Naomi. I also think the timing of these eruptions was weird.

[HopeSprings]

OK, that's weird Lynne. I was told they were probably there before, but I just didn't notice - I don't think so!

[anna]

Hello Bren,

As this is a new symptom to you, I would get your GP to run a few blood tests on you if possible as the type of rash with the other symptoms you mention are also seen in a few infections.

[brethor9]

Thanks guys! I am seeing my auto specialist Thurs so I will definately review it with him.....how can one body be in this much uproar so fast??? this illness is scary!

Bren

[gertie]

I have had them on my body for years & they do not fade. I've asked the doc about them & he just says it's

nothing serious.

[fiona-jane]

hiya,

i have these as a relatively normal part of my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, it makes my capillaries leak and leaves me covered in little red dots. it also makes my tissues fragile so if i press too hard on my skin i break my capillaries and results in grouped areas of petechiae.

i was told that as long as i haven't got large areas of very dark bruising that i shouldnt worry about them.... but dont know about petechiae in people without EDS so it's probably best to visit your doctor if you see lots of them, or if you get a lot that spring up after starting a medication or getting a virus etc...

fi