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Ipswich Hospital (Part of the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust)


I dont know what my skin condition was

I had a severe skin rash break out on my face which became painful whilst I was staying in another part of the UK and so I was able to get an emergency GP appointment with my friends GP, they initially guided me to the pharmacy then to the 111 service and eventually I was directed to the local A & E at the hospital. Initial tests were done and nothing untoward was initially found so they gave me antibiotics and it did eventually clear up. I took several photographs at the time of my face. I then came home to Suffolk and my own GP referred me for a dermatology consultation at the hospital. I attended my appointment and took my photographs with me which I tried to show the dermatologist but she hardly looked at them and just said to me that she needed to see a physical rash to be able to do anything more, I was most disappointed and so as a result of this I do not know what caused it and Ipswich also did not do any tests of their own either, so I am left wondering what it was and if it will come back again.