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Old Jan 27, 2018, 04:29 PM
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Here is a quote from the Mayo Clinic talking about the symptoms of SJS. I have just formatted it differently.

“Fever, unexplained widespread skin pain, a red or purple skin rash that spreads, blisters on your skin and the mucous membranes of your mouth, nose, eyes and genitals, and Shedding of your skin within days after blisters form.”

Does any of this describe the symptoms of your rash? Probably not. SJS is rare. The odds of you getting it is substantially stacked against this happening. If carefully titrated up, the chances become even more remote. Just because you have a rash does not mean you have SJS. Look up pictures of this rash. You will find it to be unmistakeable. Heck, even Tylenol has a SJS warning. So let’s keep things in perspective here.

BTW What surprises me is there seems to be pdocs who can confuse a rash for SJS. So they take their patient off of Lamictal at the slightest hint of any rash. I had a rash. But then it went away like any rash I have had in the past. This is what a doctor had predicted.

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