Frustrated
I am tentatively diagnosed with MTCD but am being monitored for other things as well. I currently take 200mg Plaquenil 2x a day with an nsaid and now 10mg cetirizine 2x a day. I have prednisone for flares.
Every day at arbitrary times my hands (palms, backs, sometimes up my arms) have spots (will include the pics I sent doctor). This is not ideal.
They don’t hurt, they don’t itch, they’re just rough to look at and very disruptive of my day. There’s no reasoning to the times it happens, no external factor I can come up with.
I sent the latest images to my rheumatologist via the portal and said that dermatology upped my allergy meds but can’t do a biopsy unless it’s happening when they see me with the explanation that it’s too random to predict.
They replied that it looked autoimmune but they couldn’t go down that path without a biopsy. What do I do??? Do I just get to have sporadically gross hands for the rest of my life???