I'm so scared....seeing Dr. this afternoon

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Have you ever encountered another person with this? It may be confidential to even say which I respect. Just curious.

And it's not written in stone that this is what I had which the Dr's quick dx, but it sounds a lot like it.

Many thanks again!!

Pyoderma gangrenosum? It's not something I've run across that anyone has had recently. I've only heard of it in the past tense, as in "the patient has a history of pyoderma gangrenosum."

There's apparently a "family" of Pyoderma. After your post I searched on line and kept finding Pyoderma Vegetan, which sounded pretty much like the rash I had.

Pyoderma Gangrenosum talks about open sores (and showed some really gross photos) and outbreak I had didn't have open sores.

There was another kind of Pyoderma (with another word starting with an H, I think).

Tonight my mother looked it up in a fairly thorough medical dictionary and found just pyoderma and it said something like - a variety of skin conditions.

Thanks again, Wi, for giving the correct spelling to me. I would NEVER have found that on my own!

I just flipped through my derm book, they do show a pyodermia, but it only has two other entries with it, where pyoderma has about a dozen.

I've never heard anyone use the pyodermia variant before.

Pyoderma is just a fancy doctor word for infected skin. They have to show off their college smarts once in a while.