Dermatoligist symptoms and conditions

on 10-08-09 my dermatologist prescribed doxycycline hyclate for adult acne and on 10-11-09 i had a seizure do you think seizure may have been caused by this medication?

Hey I see Im not the only one with problems that the doctors blam on other things!! I have always been so healthy UNTIL I had twins in Feb 06 and had Mirena put in Oct 06 and almost immediately started having side effects.I started to read up and realized the ones I had were all listed as side effects with it.The first side effects weren't that bad but OMG now I am horrible.I have so many side effects and am wondering if anyone is in the same boat??Mine are:weight gain,hair loss,facial hair,migraines,irritability,fatigue,NO sex drive,anxiety,depression,fluttering in my stomach,back and joint pain,pain during sex,stomach spasms,the list goes ON and ON, oh and lets not forget they say I have PCOS!! Now I wish they could tell me how I went from perfectly healthy to THIS!! I have been to 3 different docs and asked to have it removed but surprise surprise they all did not want to remove it and now I have NO insurance..I am to the point if I could take the thing out myself I would!! I am SOOO miserable and if I say I want it out who are they to tell me no?? Can anyone else relate?? I AM GOING CRAZY!!!

Has anyone suffered severe dandruff and itchy scalp, to the point of distraction like???

This is the fourth time that I've gotten a rash 3-4 weeks after a steroid injection. My dermatoligist doesn't think that's possible since they treat rashes with steroids. But four times is pretty good proof. Has anyone found anything that relieves the rash?

Hair loss! My hair was falling out by the handfuls after about 5 months on Yasmin. It first I had no idea that it could be the BC, since I have never had any side-effects like that from any other kind. I stopped taking the pill immediately, but my hair still falls out! I've been off Yasmin and any other BC pill for over a year now, and my hair is still falling out! Help! My Dr. is completely ignorant and telling me that he's never heard of any side-effect like that. I also have really bad acne. I had thick hair and completely clear skin before I started this BC pill. What the heck is happening? I had all my hormone levels tested as well as thyroid, and those are fine. Any ideas? Anyone else having this problem? Anyone found a cure? What is going on, and how do I get my hair back?

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I am currently taking a 40mg lipotor. I have devloped chronic hives mosttly on my arms and thighs. The itchng is so bad that I scratch these welts in my sleep. I have been on Plavix 75 mg since my first cardio-chatherization which has made my blood so thin that I actually bleed when I scratch. I'm now in a itch and scratch cycle that keeps me from sleeping. My doctor originally started me on 10 mg. This was before I started having clogged coronary arteries'. I am 74 years old. I have just had my second bypass operation. I started on lipitor 10 mg about eight years ago. I developed a hive like welt in my groin area. This welt or hive itched so bad that I damaged the skin. I went to a dermatoligist and the only answer he had after a biopsy was that it was probably Lichon Planus. I had a triple pass July 18 2007. That is when my doctor increased my lipitor dosage to 40 mg. He had increased it to 20 mg several years. I finally realized that it may be the 40 mg dose that causes me to wake about three hours later with Hives and itching that is so bad that even scratching doesen't relieve the itch.
I have seen two dermotoligsts. They can find nothing that I am allergic to. This condition has gotten progressivly worse over the last three years. I am taking Zanix and Benedryl I have eliminated all of my other medicines as the cause.
The only thing I could see as a possible cause is acute anxiety. After seeing my family doctor he prescribed the Zanix.

My last hope for relief is to get off Lipitor. I stopped taking it two days ago
and I already see a change in this chronic hive condition; I am assuming that it may take a while to see if I have solved my problem.
Incidently I started takng Zocor about three years ago instead of the Lipitor and I had such severe neck and shoulder pain that it was obvious Zocor was the cause.

zocor was the cause

I had a kenalog shot in Jan 06. After that I had two pweriods a month for 5 months. It has now been 6 months and I have had no period at all. Also and most importantly I have yhe largest Hole in my buttocks. It looks as if someone took a large bite out of my rear. I have had experience with restalin, and at 550$ It would easily take four doses to fill it in, might I add temporarily. I was not told of this posible side effect. And the doctor did admit that the kenalog is the cause. What worrys me is that it seems to be growing larger. I have appt. with my dermatoligist in two weeks.

I was diagnoised with Kidney Cancer in March of 2005, and had a partial nephroectomy on 23rd day of March 2005. I was being given Ancef which is in the family of Levaquin.
A few days after my surgery while still in the hospital my back started itching , i told this to the nurse and she looked at my back and said i was broke out in hives , she phoned my dr. and he prescribed benadryl shots and allergy meds but nothing seemed to help, about the third day of being broken out and nothing was working that my Dr. had prescribed a dermatoligist was called in to the hospital , he prescribed different meds and a medicated lotion, still no releif.
My Dr. released me from hospital a few days later ,i still had hives on my back , and he prescribed Levaquin for me to take at home, my hives kept getting worse, by then they started at the back of my neck and was all the way down my back to the back of my knees and not just bumps ,but whelps that reached from side to side nothing i was taking or putting on them helped the itching or burning.
My daughter who is an RN had talked to the nurses that she worked with at the hospital and they all decided that it was the Levaquin that was causing the hives to stay , so i quit taking it ,and sure enough i quit breaking out but i had them so long that all of my skin where i had them felt like leather and the itching was horrible and miserable.
I went to my regular Dr after several days and told him about my skin and itching and he told me to buy some Eucerin lotion at Wal-Mart and my husband rubbed it on my back and the next day my skin started to heal.
I still am having outbreaks on my back and was wondering if anyone else has had or is having this problem?

I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis back in August of 2004. I am currently off the Prednisone but I've had lasting affects. I am 14 years old and now out of school and being taught by a teacher that comes to my house. You can guess how bad the side effects got that now I'm at home. At one point for close to four weeks, I could not walk/get out of bed at all, or not even shower. I was in such pain that my back felt like it was going to fall apart. I am not sure what caused this but things happen. I also was diagnosed with a severe case of acne fulminans. If you want to see what I looked like at one point, take a look at google under acne fulminans. Now, thanks to my wonderful dermatoligist, I am back to the way my face used to look before I had this happen to me. I wish all other patients who are currently taking this mediciation the best of luck with their health problem. Till next time, Daniel.

Unfortunately I found this website years too late but maybe my entry will help someone else and prevent them from the misery and altered life that I now have.

I am 38 years old and I have had excema since I was a small child. When I was in my early 20's my Doctor prescribed for me what I thought was a miricle drug. I live in Atlanta and in the hot and humid months I couldn't stay outside in the heat or I would develop a severe rash from the excema on the insides of my legs. Once I started using the medication the doctor prescribed my rash would disapear. It was actually regular lotion that had Triamcinolone AKA kENALOG injected into the bottle. I would use it each time I got out of the shower while I was still wet per my doctors instructions which just made it get into my skin even more. The bottle had no warning label and needless to say over a short period of time I begin to develop stretch marks on the insides of my upper thighs. I was newly married and very embarrased and had no clue that it was caused by the lotion that I was prescribed. I hid it for a while thinking that I was just getting overweight and that was causing the marks but the damage was already done. In a short period of time the marks were down to my knee and spreading to the inside of my calfs. The stretch marks are 3/4 of an inch wide and some of them are 9 and 10 inches long and dark purple. I went to doctor after doctor and had test after test just not my dermatoligist tryiing to find out what was wrong with me and when I realized that it was the lotion I was just horrified. I went into a shell and had a very difficult time dealing with it. I couldn't talk about it or show anyone my legs. I thought I was a FREAK. Needless to say I waited too long to pursue a medical malpractice against the doctor but it has altered my life greatly. I don't go out in public in shorts or even a skirt. I can't go to the beach or anywhere in public in a bathing suit because I am so self consious about my legs. I have a wonderful husband and fortunately he loves me for me and not my looks but I can't tell you that it has not altered his life as well. My children don't understand why their mom doesn't wear shorts and things like other moms.

This drug has altered and changed my life in almost every aspect pysically and emotionally and I will never be the same but hopefully my story will prevent someone else from having to deal with all the pain and misery that I have had. I was told I was past the statue of limitations in Georgia to pursue anything legally so hopefully I can help you on a personal leval before this happens to you. DON'T USE KENALOG OR ANY TOPICAL FORM OF IT!! Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or if I can help you in anyway.