Nervous rash

I have the same problem. I am now 23 years old and has had to deal with this rash for as long as I can remember. It is embarrassing, but I know other people with the same problem. I have fair skin, and I get a blotchy rash every time I get nervous, hot, drink alcohol, get mad, or any situation like that. I have learned the only way for it to go away is calm down and not worry about it. It goes away on its own and there is ABSOLUTELY NO CURE. I had to just learn to live with the condition. My friends know about it. When it is obvious and there is nothing I can do about it, I point it out to my friends before they notice it, that way I don't have to hear the omg you are blotching so bad right now. When they point it out, it gets worse. my light shade of red grows to a deep red. and then I have to hear, omg its getting redder. I don't like the rash, but there is nothing I can do to stop it, so I just learned to live with it and try to stay calm when I am nervous and try to avoid really hot temperatures. The key is to not freak out and stay calm and not to get over-heated. If someone does find a cure, PLEASE! fill me in.

hey im a guy and i get this quite bad sometimes

best way to deal with it is to stop being so worried about things all the time

however alcohol brings this out real bad but it goes away after about 30 mins

either way just chill and everything will be good, trust me

hope this helps a little

the same thing happens to me. i won't explain how because it's the same as everyone else is saying. it's really embarrassing and annoying. i feel like i always have to cover up. i really hope there's some way to prevent it other than dealing with stress because you can never stop stressing 100%

I thought I was alone in this problem! I'm 23 and I get this same rash everyone describes mainly just on my chest and a bit up my neck whenever I'm nervous. I feel like my face is really hot and red too but usually there is no rash on my face.

I don't avoid stressful situations like job interviews but it does make me anxious thinking i might break out in the rash. I walked out of an interview the other day and I thought 'oh that was good, i didn't even get the rash' (i didn't feel hot so i thought i hadn't) then i looked down and i was all blotchy...great. It's so embarrasing and it only started happening in my late teens...I don't know why. I do have confidence in myself so I don't know why this happens. There are certain people I dread getting in front of now, like even relatives when they quiz me about what I'm up to.

I really want a solution. I might try the antihistamine thing but can somebody explain to me how this works? I would go to the doc's about beta blockers but I just feel silly, I don't want to get a doctor who thinks I'm over-reacting. On the other hand, I don't want this ruling parts of my live.

It's nice to know we can support each other though.

Clare

this problem has been trying to define my life since i was a teenager., i am now 38! i honestly feel for all of you who have to endure the pain/embarrassment as well. it sucks.
i do find that if i don't stress about it and think about it all of the time, which does still happen from time to time (like why me???) then i'm better off. the worst thing to do is dwell on it, b/c then the rest of your life IS defined by it. excercise has been the best thing i have found for calming my nerves in general. and i mean really gettin' after it, sweating my @ss off kind of excercise. then the blotchiness doesn't happen at the drop of a hat and the less it happens the less i am inclined to think about it. it did happen terribly at the dr. this morning, which is why i was searching the net ONCE AGAIN for some type of answer. this was a new dr. and she just looked horrified when it started happening. and this from a medical professional!
hang in there everyone;) and i guess know that we are not alone...

Hey,
i'm 17 and i get a Nervous rash just a bit higher than my chest area and underneath my neck. its very embarrassing, especially when i have to go for job interviews and then it really comes out all splotchy and yeah i hate it! is there any way to get rid of it/prevent this from happening? Giselle x

forestwoman wrote:

so i have been suffering from this Nervous rash since high school and it has gotten worse with age. i am now 30 and it is truly hindering my career as a nurse. i want to be able to appear calm for my patients, but it´s hard when my emotions show on my face with this rash. i am a very outgoing person and am quite confident in my abilities, but in new situations i get nervous...who doesn´t? i truly need this to not be the focus of my days. i am fine with it, it´s the reactions of other nurses, drs and of course my patients that is making me dread a stressful situation at work. i am sad that this has become such a crutch in my career. i have tried everything mentally (talking myself down, imagining that i am looking at myself during the stressful situation) and nothing has worked. i am frustrated and sad for everyone else who has to put up with this hurdle in life. it´s not vanity (as some have tried to tell me), i don´t care what i look like, it´s everybody elses reaction to what i look like that is so hard to deal with. how do you prove yourself when others can read every emotion you are feeling on your face? i am hoping beta blockers will be my answer, i am making a dr´s appointment tomorrow. thanks for listening.

here´s my update-
i talked to my dr in early nov. she advised that i try over the counter anithistimines first. she said that some people turn red due to the rush of antihistamines to localized areas that happens in stressful situations. those did not work, at all.
she then started me on propranolol (beta blocker) 10 mg daily. this helps by decreasing the rush of addrenaline to the skins surface, apparently i am allergic to my own addrenaline. it worked, but not perfectly, i still got a little red at times. she upped the dose to 20...this works like magic. seriously. this has made a huge difference in my life. i no longer turn blotchy when faced with stressful situations, and i feel so dang confident now! i actually forgot to take my pill the other day, and man was i sorry when i turned 9 shades of splotchy red when i was starting an IV (which is something i do daily, and am good at even). proof positive that beta blockers work.
i am so thankful to have found a nurse practitioner who listens and understands how hard this was for me. she even knew the medical name, i forget it now of course.
this is real, and there are real answers. i hope this helps some of you!

Hay guys, i get the same red Nervous rash so I went to the doc because I have alot of public speaking in my line of work and he gave me metoprolol which is a blood pressure medication (low dose). I take one the morning of day where I am going to be in a situation that I know I will need it and it works a treat. I still feel a little warm but no big blotchy rash. I suggest you to ask your doc.

Well the first time I really remember getting the "nervous rash" was on my 12th birthday when our childhood dog got hit by a car I was so upset I broke out in the rash on my neck and chest. As I get older its gotten worse it starts on my neck then to my chest then my back and sometimes on my arms once it went down to my wrists! It happens to me when I’m nervous, upset, angry, excited, anxious, stressed, drinking alcohol, or when the rash starts to show and some one points it out then it gets worse. But I’m now 22 and I’m pretty much used to it. Most people I work with or am friends with know about and it’s just normal now. The worst part was when I was doing job interviews after being out of school I was so nervous and I was breaking out in rashes during the interview.

Look up Pyroluria and how to treat it with high doses of zinc / B6 supplements...it may provide a clue to eliminating this Nervous rash which is brought on by anxiety.