Hi Beth!

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Beth,

Boy, you sound like you have a really big outbreak. Mine started about 3 months ago and I found weird rash of circular purple bumps showing up on my inner calves. Everyday more were there and I just passed it off on bad circulation or allergies.

Then my right ankle swelled up and the pain was horrid.I randomly picked a Dr. since we are newer to this area...Wisconsin. He knew right away...thank goodness and ordered a chest x-ray along with the visit. It looked like to him that I had pneumonia (even though I don't) no coughing just shortness of breath and burning in my lungs.

He then sent me to the pulmonologist who did the lung biopsy and called today to confirm that it is Sarcoidosis and that hopefully it will just go away in time. I am going next week one more time to have a breathing test and then he is going to give me an inhaler. We talked about steroids and that is something that I don't want to deal with unless there is no other choice. My sister took them and looked horrible within a week...no thanks.

My dr. seems to think that pregnancy is what brought it out. I am older (37) and just had two pregnancies back to back (20 month old and 7 month old) and weird thing is that pregnancy makes all symptoms go away...so you know what that will mean...old woman in the shoe! just kidding.

Now I am the one rambling. I didn't know that you could get the rash on arms...this is all new to me too and I don't like it at all! write again when you can.