Hello, im new here, my name is shawn and my story is a wild one.
I have been a moderate smoker for 13 yrs, usually around a half a pack a day maybe less , maybe more, never a full pack a day.
In aug 2004 I was playing softball in a league, we had been playing all season. Anyone one day it was very hot , 106 degress, I ran out to the field and suddenly stopped , felt dizzy for about 30 seconds, it passed and I went on playing not thinking anything of it. A week later my feet broke out, sort of like athletes foot, I scratched it and the next thing I knew my hands broke out, went to the doctor told me it was ath foot and and I had developed a secondary infection. Went to my regular doctor he gave me a cream, didnt work, diflucan didnt work, went to a dermatologist she gave me all kinds of stuff and did a culture saying it was strep, staph and yeast, she gave me some gris peg, pennicillin, and some cream, none of it worked, I went to a nascar race not knowing that the gris peg stated on it on the written directins, avoid sun exposure while taking this medication which no one bothered to tell me, well after I had been on this stuff for a while I went to that race and everything felt fine until a few days later, I felt like I had been kicked by a horse for a about a week. No one said anything about any possible skin cancer or anythng to me. Well this has gone out now for about 8 months I have been put on several antidepressants and this causes me problems with panic attacks and I end up in the emergency room everytime. No one beleives my story and I have even had one doctor call me a hypochindriac, now I have lost 40 pounds over the 8 months and I look totally awful and still none of my doctors beleive me in reference to this story, none have done any blood work or any type of biopsies. I am scared now this was melenoma of some kind or possible arsenic keretosis or something of this sort but no one belives that either due to this problem being more of less a problem with drinking water in bangledesh for some reason.
Before this all began I had two small brown spots on my fourth fingers of each hand, my doctor said it was an allergy to possibly smoking, now they are gone, totally and my hands look all blotchy, I have major weight loss and my skin looks like it has lost its pigment I have been told.
Does anyone on here have any suggestions ? I have even went to a cancer dermatologist in st. Louis who laughed at me when I told her the story about the strep, staph and yeast and she said smartly, " who told you you had that ?" smirking and giggling to her p/a. I told her about everything and she laughed it off as this, and that and said well, some people have scaly feet and some people have red hands, she didnt even bother to do a biopsy of anything, just a scrpaing and came back in and said, well it isnt fungal and it isnt bacterial, geeh hello, red flag here, lets do a boipsie and check into this further, nah she didnt do that either, now I have a pain across my chest, left shoulder, left testicle, skin all over looks awful, small red lil bumps on my skin and my hands and feet still look awful and no one even cares. My brain feels like it is dripping or leaking. I know it sounds stupid but this is driving me nuts.