Hi Everyone,

I'm wondering something. I saw all of the pictures that everyone submitted of their RSD. None of them look like mine.

My left arm is swollen all the time, red, but I also have these red dots all on my forearm and some on my upper arm. I also have these red dots on my left arm but more in 1 area on my forearm.

Does anyone else have red dots?

are they raised bump like? I have raised bump dots on both of my upper arms, sometimes it goes down to my forarms but only when they are REALLY swollen.
carrie

I have red dots on my legs and arms. I thought they came with getting older. They are about the size of a red hot piece of candy and looks like them actually.

I am 56. I don't know how old you are but I do remember Bill would get them also.

Some medications can cause spots. I have been on Prevacid for years and now it's causing big bruised spots on my right arm which is also my worst place with the RSD.

Have a great day.

Ada

Hi Ada. I had to laugh when you you wrote you thought they were from age, lol. As we get older, we worry more about stuff like that ever, don't we?

"Liverspots", as my grandma called them, are brownish, not red. They have no raised areas, they are just discolored patches on the skin.

I know all this because I have one... luckily, only one so far. (I turned 45 on Oct. 1st, it isn't fair I have ANY yet!) I think there may also be a hereditary factor involved, as the one side of my family gets them, and the other does not.

If you want to know how many RSDers have the red dots, than you will have to exclude yourself and Ada (you both have TOS, so you aren't *sure* it isn't from that).

I get the red dots, as you may've seen in my pics, but if not here they are:







It will be interesting to see how many people with just RSD get the RED DOTS!

These places I have are raised and they are red. I don't know if they are called liver spots or not.

As far as TOS they don't come from TOS, I'm sure. There are several on here with TOS and they can say also. I think Jo has TOS so she would know about them also.

Again, there might be different kinds we are talking about.

Ada

unless we have a vast number of people (with RSD) tell us that they also have them. I'd just like to be sure and look into it. It is an interesting subject, one that if we discuss we might come to a firm conclusion that, yes, it is RSD.

What I am saying is: if we exclude the TOSers we might be SURE that, yes it is definetely RSD!

Also- yes, there could be different kinds, as you said. Are yours always there? Or do they fade away? Mine fade away and are not raised normally.

OR you could be talking about something that comes with old age and has nothing absolutely to do with RSD. Who knows...

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i have red spots, that stay with me all the time, yet at other times, they break open and turn to a lesion......................i also have brown (age< liver) spots....and i AM OLD......lafff 52 those are with me all the time too............so take your pick..............i do not have tos...........

As this is a forum for support and for all members to be able to share their views and experience I have had to make some edits and am requesting that all replies remain in keeping with an atmosphere of support and self help

thanks very much for everyone's co-operation
Cheri