Hello. First post. Here's the situation. I'm a 28 Year old male, no family history of psoriasis. I have some dry, tough skin on my elbows. Someone suggested to me that I put some lotion on it, so I did. Within an hour or so, my elbows had red, very very itchy bumps on them, and the bumps started to appear on my hand, particularly on the insides of my fingers and some random single bumps on my arms and legs. I went to see the doctor several times and almost everyone thought it was an allergic reaction or bug bites.

I tried different types of lotions and some cortizone creme and everything just seemed to irritate it more. It itched very very badly. Finally one of the doctors told me to try Benadryl. This helped the itching a lot. I stopped putting anything on the bumps and with the help of the benadryl stopped scratching them and they eventually dried up and went away for the most part. But they refuse to totally go away.

I went to the doctor again and he took a biopsy and sent it in to a lab back in Germany. I had 1 stitch from that, and they gave me some bacatracin and bandages. Even the bacatracin managed to "rehydrate" the bumps and they started to grow again. It's very weird, almost as if they are a dehydrated rash.

The doctor that took the biopsy said that it looked a lot like psoriasis, being scaly dry skin on my elbows. I'm in the military and deployed to Iraq, so my doctor options are very limited and there are no dermatoligists on site. The biopsy was taken over a month ago and still there are no signs of results. Please tell me your opinion since everyone here seems to be stumped.