Rash

I am a little freaked out because I woke up today with a quarter sized rash on the top of my hand. I have been tapering pred from 40mg and have gotten down to 20mg the last couple days. I am also taking a Rowasa enema at night, Canasa suppository in the morning and 4.8g of lialda during the day. Could this be from lowering my does of pred, or from too much mesalamine? If I were intolerant to mesalamine I feel like I would feel worse, I have been on it for almost 2 months now, and its definitely helped so I wouldn't want to stop.

P.S. The taper isn't going so well, I still have rectal pain and cant seem to get rid of the inflammation towards the end of my colon. Right now I only am having 1-2 uncomfortable, soft BM a day, so I am planning on tapering the prednisone no matter what and maybe moving up the ladder in medication.

Should I just monitor the rash and not think about it too much, or mention it to my doctor?

Thanks everyone, I have learned so much from this forum.

Near the worst flare of my entire life that nearly killed me, I developed a weird looking rash which eventually became inflamed somehow and turned into a weird hard spot under my skin. It eventually turned into a REALLY bad ulceration, it happened in two different spots.

They were so bad (and deep), I have dark purple scars from them.

Not sure what it was from, ultimately. I was on 15+ different medications and as I said, the flare was REALLY bad. Not trying to terrify you. Mention it to your doctor and monitor it...Especially if you're on an immunosupressant. Simple things like rashes can turn into nightmares quickly.

When you say "the pred" are you referring to Prednisone? Prednisone is an immunosuppressant...

Try putting a topical, steroid cream on it. You might have an anti-itch cream in your medicine cabinet that includes 1% steroids. An anti-histamine might help as well, either topical sprays or creams or oral (claritin or benadryl).