Posted 11/20/2017 1:52 PM (GMT 0)
I would recommend contacting your gasteroenteroligist and mentioning this new development (calling, emailing, through patient portal, or whatever options are available to you). It could be nothing and then again it could be something. You can have a dermatologist look at it to ID exactly what it is.
We're much more prone to having rashes as UC patients, and sometimes it can be from our medications. Often medication-induced rashes are body-wide, as a systematic reaction to it. Area rashes can sometimes be medicine-induced, but it is less common.
We can get psoriasis, eczema, contact-dermatitis, and are prone to dry and itchy skin. I'd recommend doing a google image search and see if your rash looks at all similar to any of those aforementioned conditions.
I've had contact-dermatitis on several occasions, which is an immune system over reaction (that is an allergic reaction) to the harsh body soaps and shampoos I was using (Irish Spring brand), it caused an eczema-like reaction, with a raised, red patchy rash around my armpits, neck, and on my abdomen. I was given a prescription steroid-based cream to apply, and switched to mild, non-perfumed soaps and shampoos (the dove brand stuff safe for psoriasis and eczema) and it did go away.
Sounds like what I had, on the arms and chest. Contact-dermatitis can occur as a reaction to anything that stays on your skin, from deodorants, to laundry detergents, soaps and shampoos, to perfumes/colognes, and any moisturizers and other similar products you might apply to your skin. Have you recently changed brands on any such products? You can try an over-the-counter anti-itch cream which includes the hydrocodone steroid. The prescription stuff I got was that with double the steroid strength. Anti-histamines also help sometimes too (either in topical spray formulations or by taking a pill like claritin).