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Deborah, I also experienced severe rash and itching last year when I started on Sinemet. I quit the drug and the itching and rash finally went away. For what it's worth I sympathize with you.The neurologist told me it was probably the die in the pills. Best of luck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Setzer" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:26 PM Subject: Any Ideas > Hi Everyone, Maybe someone can help me help the doctors figure this one out. > > I am miserable. I am back in the hospital again with a rash covering my > body head to toe. I burn and itch. My skin is bright red. My fingernails > have almost no color. My muscles hurt and the joints in my body feel like I > have been hit with a baseball bat every time I move anything. > > So far, CAT scan is normal, chest x-ray is normal, white blood cell count > is normal. glucose level is high, iron level low, cholesterol is high. I > have been running a temperature up to 103 degrees though my normal temp is > 97.4 The infectious disease specialist almost went rounds with Robert this > morning when he told Robert that I couldn't have a normal temp of 97.4 and > that he goes by the standard and 101 is low grade no matter what we think my > normal temp is. > > Strep culture came back normal. > > What should we do? We have an internest and infectious disease doc that > has showed up. We have been waiting for 2 days for the dermatologist and > neurologist and rhumatologist to show up. This is the 3ed out break of this > rash since February. We are at a loss to all of this an I am sick of > hurting and itching and being the receipent of any more "I really don't > know's" from the docs. Surely there is something that they can do to > figure this out! Today marks my 4th hospitalization and my 27th day in the > hospital since Dec. 20. Enough is enough. > > Deborah > aka Tenacity > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn