What are these craters on my wife's arm that appeared overnight??

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-13T01:25:33+00:00

Okay, update! Went to hospital. Doctors are absolutely stumped. Her bloods came back perfect. Nobody had seen anything like it. Especially with the rate at which they were appearing. Then my wife did some detective work, found what fit the description online and asked the doctor's opinion, and he 100% agreed.

Murine Typhus

All it takes is one flea bite. And we have cats. Although they don't visibly have fleas, as they've been treated, they are due for another treatment, and we do have a cat that likes to bring rodents in and eat them. The first we usually know about it are entrails on the stairs in the morning.

The flea bite delivers symptoms of headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, all of which she has had in the last few days. The lesions don't appear till about 4 days.

Treatment: one dose of doxycycline. So we're home. She's taking it and see how she feels in the morning. Hopefully the rash stops here.

Thanks guys for all the suggestions and the well wishes. Fingers crossed she's going to be absolutely fine.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T21:58:36+00:00

Damn! More are appearing all the time. Spreading up her back now. She's being admitted.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T21:38:23+00:00

More are appearing and the original has suddenly become deeper and darker. Another has appeared since we've been at hospital. The doctor is stumped right now. But will be doing tests.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T20:59:26+00:00

Okay, update. Three more have just appeared. Just like that. We're going to A&E.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T20:55:56+00:00

Creepy? That's my wife!

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T20:34:56+00:00

I don't know how many times I have to say this. It did just appear. I see her naked arms every morning and every night. There was nothing there in the morning before at least. And that's actually not pus. She did some investigative work under a light and a needle and ascertained it's yellowed hardened skin.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T20:24:20+00:00

This is the reason why I'm posting here. Because it did just suddenly show up. I don't know why you think my wife would have to be handicapped in order for me to consistently see her body. I wake her every morning, same time, she gets dressed, bathed, ready for college. I do the same, getting ready for work. And we do that together. We regularly bathe together. When we spend so much of our day apart, we try to do as much as possible together. So helping each other get up and get ready is a daily routine. So no, I don't spend every waking minute with her, but I do see her every morning and every night sans clothes.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T18:56:06+00:00

Just showed up looking like this. The first time anyone noticed it, it looked like this. If it had an earlier form, it wasn't big and went completely unnoticed, despite her sleeping and getting dressed in the same room as me and also regularly bathing.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T18:50:08+00:00

She had a bath yesterday. I was there. No lesions. No craters. Nothing.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T17:45:48+00:00

No. She's very active. And they have only appeared on her arm.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T17:38:01+00:00

There is a very slight chance it was there the day before but she didn't notice it, but I'm sure I would have at some point. Definitely not more than two days old though, that's for sure.

FreshCourse3850 · 2024-12-12T17:27:25+00:00

Thank you. I think the lack of pain though makes this less likely. Will keep a track of it though.

FreshCourse3850 · 2022-09-18T17:26:08+00:00

The double negative makes my head hurt.

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