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Spreading LP

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carolyn81368
carolyn81368

This is the first discussion I have started myself. Previously, I only joined threads regarding oral LP, which is what I started with. Now I have red spots on my arms, and my niece, who is a physician's assistant in a dermatology practice, tells me it looks like lichen planus. I am SAD, but have an appointment with my dermatologist tomorrow for a positive diagnosis. Makes me want to cry, but there are much worse things than this. Just disappointed that it's spreading.

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  • Jeepers
    Jeepers carolyn81368

    Posted

    Hi Carolyn. They should go away in time with a little but of luck. Mine started to fade/shrink after a couple of years from various parts of my body. I used dermovate for the itchy places and it was really effective, great stuff.

    Yours might not  go everywhere just because another person's did though, so.

    take heart.

     I got LS too in a really troublesome place. I'd swop that for any number of red spots, promise you. Big smiles. x

     

  • carolyn81368
    carolyn81368

    Posted

    Thank you, Joodie, for your encouragement.  The oral LP is not nearly as bad as it could be, thank goodness, but thoroughly inconvenient. I was alarmed when I saw it on my skin yesterday, and have a fear of what you mention ... that it could spread to an area we don't want to discuss here! 
  • anthea040240
    anthea040240 carolyn81368

    Posted

    Hi Carolyn,

    Good luck with your Dermatologist tomorrow,  He is the best person to advise you. 

    Don,t be sad.  It can be controlled. I also despair when OLP troubles me, but there are always others worse off.  Cheer up!

  • carolyn81368
    carolyn81368

    Posted

    Dr. Ghate told me this is NOT lichen planus on my skin and I am so thankful.  Just under-the-skin bleeding that she says isn't uncommon in older people. 
  • carolyn81368
    carolyn81368

    Posted

    I have, however, embarked upon intermittent fasting, which another poster mentioned, to see if it helps my OLP.  If I have luck with it, I will post.
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