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Calcium deposits??? Please help!

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I am desperately searching for some advise. If anyone would please take a minute to reply with any, I would be forever grateful! About three years ago I started getting sick. It is at the point now where doctors seem clueless and because I dont have insurance, Im basically walked out the door with a prescription for antibiotics and thats it. I have these very painful sores that started on my face and have now spread thru-out my body. It starts out as itching and and a red rash and within hours turns into little bumps. You can see the white deposits under my skin as it thins when this happens and eventually breaks open. I can scratch an area pretty much anywhere at this point and end up with little white things all over. They seem to start out as kind of collagen like but get harder over time. Sometimes it seems like grains of sand are comming out of the lesions and a chalky white fluid. They will not heal and get worse over time leaving horrible scars and discoloration of my skin. Within the sores are what seems like endless white deposits that will not stop coming out of the tissue and are getting bigger as time goes by. The med doctors I have talked to give me a stupid look when I try to tell them about it. They are extremely painful and burn. My skin feels and looks like its tighting when the sores start to dry. The never scab...just get whitish and where I had previous lesions, the skin is shiney, discolored and scared. When they first start, they feel really lumpy like and eventually the white things break thru and get worse from there.

I have a whole book of symptoms: Swelling of the face, hands, feet and leggs. Muscle pain, weakness and stifness. Knots or lumps in my back muscles and recently found one in my legg. Depression and anxitey. Kidney and chest pain. Problems with my jaw and food getting stuck in my chest. Stomach problems. Protien in my urine. High white blood cell count. I feel ill all the time. Skin lesions that will not heal and tiny white things coming out of my skin everywhere - the worst on my face, arms and hands. Hair loss. Massive headaches and migraines. Im sure Im forgetting some! If this sounds like anything you may have please let me know. I feel so alone!!

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I am not sure, but it sounds like you could have an autoimmune. That is so hard to say. The aches and pains are some of what I have going on, The rash I get sounds like it is different. What I have is a itchy rash all over my body including my head tongue and so on. But you never can tell with autoimmune one person and another can have the same diagnoses and yet have completely different symptoms. You do sound like you need a Doctors attention and more then just antibiotics.
Have you a free clinic in your area or a clinic that charges what you income will handle? I know they are everywhere we even have one in my town and our town only has a small store and go type store a gas station a coffee shack a real estate office a pizza house a hamburger stand some churches and a medical clinic. If you could get into one of these you could get in and ask to be tested for an autoimmune, Also if you do not have insurance they will charge you for any testing. You might even see if you have a county hospital or learning hospital like UCLA. They do all the testing and exams. Normally when you have a county or state or teaching hospital they have clinics too. You do need attention. Also call organizations that can help with the cost of medical, and see if you qualify for state assistance. I wish I could help you more. I am sorry. You know even when you get into most of the Doctors today they still will pat you on your shoulder had you a prescription and send you on your way. Most I have seen do not know what to do or even what is wrong with me for years. but I just got diagnosed 2 years ago or so. Now I have new Doctors and they are clueless. But you need to see what is available to you in your area and get some help. Hope you have all the best luck and God be with you.
Meema

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