To all Granuloma Annulare sufferers - what else is going on?

Hello everyone,

I am happy to say that my GA is fading slowly everywhere. I stopped all the vitamins and supplements, I eat a clean diet with no processed food, lots of fruits and veggies, drink lots of water, exercise and just stop stressing about it.

A new event was that I am now taking low dosage of anti-cholesterol drug that the doctor prescribed. I am not sure if this is what is fixing my GA or my new clean diet or the red light therapy but the results are amazing. My spots are getting smaller on a daily basis, even the lumps under my feet are gone. I am actually positive now that all will be gone in a few more months.

I think that with GA, it is an individual journey for everyone to find what is not right in your body and fix it. It is not from cream or outside elements but from the inside.

Good luck to all!

Carole

Hi everyone,

It was so nice to find this! I have had GA ever since I was seventeen. I am now 27. Otherwise, I have no other health issues- no diabetes, no teeth fillings, no leg cramps, etc. I did have a pretty traumatic experience right around the time the GA showed up so that is the only thing I can link it to.

It used to just be a small bump or two on my head and now it has expanded across my chest and sides of my neck.

I have researched causes and cures for years now. I have even seen a couple of specialists. My conclusion is what many others here have made: the issue is coming from the inside, NOT the outside. I would avoid creams, steroids, pills, ointments, etc, as they seem like only a temporary fix and the GA usually returns even angrier- if even years after. As far as gluten, caffeine, etc, I think certain things may inflame the disease. I do not think these things are the cause of it, but I do think they can trigger it or make it worse so that may be worth experimentation in hopes to keep the disease at bay.

Mine has progressively gotten worse/more inflamed in the past couple of months and I've been doing two things differently since then: drinking coffee every morning (after going 5 years without it), and laying out in the sun (after about 7 years of being very smart with sunscreen/avoiding the sun).

I am now going to go back to wearing sunscreen, being smart about the sun, etc, and see if I can tell a difference. Then, after a month, I am going to stop drinking caffeine for a couple of months to see if that makes a difference. THEN, I will experiment with gluten-free dieting for a couple of months. I would love to find a cure, but in the meantime, it would be nice to at least prevent these triggers.

I have read very good things about ROM testing, and it's the first true hope I've read about in years. However, their testing group was only six people, so I am going to wait until more people have been tested for truer results.

Please don't stop posting on here. Since this issue doesn't affect anyone's health, there is little research poored into it. If we want a cure, we are going to have to be the ones who find it. Anyone know any bored and rich scientists?!

well, I'm so healthy I don't even have a doctor....so guess I can't attribute it

to anything...I do have RH negative O blood type....anyone else? I don't remember

even anything happening to me stresswise when I first noticed it on my knuckle 30 years ago other than I had just gotten back from a trip to Mexico...don't know what that would have to do with it....

I live in USA.  My husband was employed as a uranium miner for several years, and I became exposed to the uranium by hosing off his "diggers" on the lawn, letting them dry, and then shaking the dirt off.  Then washed them in the washer and hung them to dry.  I have always wondered if the explosure to uranium might have caused the granuloma anulares that I have had since the late 1950's.  I also got cancer in 2005 and had to have chemotherapy and radiation.  Believe it or not, one or the other of these treatments almost entirely got rid of most of the GA.  I had it on my face, neck, outer arms, and lower legs, but not my torso or thighs.  Most of the time I wore long sleeves and long pants to avoid the sun and also prevented the embarrassing questions about how did I get burned so badly.  Right now, I am awaiting a response from a team of physicians from Zintro (online) so that I can possibly be paid from a fund that our government has set up for uranium workers and others who were exposed.  I'll let you know the answer to my question:  Could exposure to uranium or other radiation cause GA?

Hello everyone,

I am 34 years old and have been diagnosed with GA, as of a few months ago. I have had it since the summer of 2014. That is when I first noticed it on my elbow. I immediately thought it was ringworm, mainly because I had been cleaning put our pool and it was gross. However, it wasn't. a few things happened at the same time that summer including my stress level being extremely elevated due to my mother and nephew moving in with me. In the past I was also diagnosed with diverticulitis. I have only had the one flare up of that and that was back in 2010. But the summer that I noticed this rashes I was on the sun doe the first time since 2008.. In the sun enough to burn and tan that is. I was also bitten by a lot of mosquitos at once one day. I had over 30-40 bites. I was also diagnosed with scarring alopecia in 2012 which I am certain came from stress. Besides what I've listed I am relatively healthy. Rarely get sick besides the common cold. I believe GA is purely gut and stress related. After discovering the spot on my elbow, two new places have emerged. One on my side thigh. And a spot close to my belly button. anything the Dr has giving me does not work and he has told me it probably won't. He hasn't suggested me trying anything else, diet etc. I have tried rosehip oil, tea tree oil, and nothing has done the trick. I want decent, no gaat foods and I work out constantly. That is a new thing for me too as of Jan 2015. I am down 25 lbs but still a little overweight. I would live to find a cure as it is very unsightly. I am hoping my stress goes back down as my mother and nephew move out in a few weeks. Thanks for the feed!

I was recently diagnosed with granuloma annulare as well as lichen sclerosus.  I found a link to an article on the NCBI Resources site asking whether it was a coincidence that the woman in the study also had thyroiditis.