Rash on my neck

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Hi everyone
Yesterday morning I got a rash on my neck, a bit like a heat rash or a bite, which is red and itchy but not responding to anti-histamine cream or tablets, and is just soothed temporarily by antiseptic cream. It hasn’t calmed down overnight or all day long.

I finished chemo over 4 weeks ago, and had my 4th herceptin last Wednesday. I haven’t started rads.

The rash is on the left side of my neck/collarbone and not the side that had the lymph nodes removed/MX.

Anyone know if it might be a reaction to herceptin? I haven’t changed washing power lately or caught the sun!! :slight_smile:

Cheers
Flora xxx

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I haven’t had this with Herceptin, although I did have a nasty rash after 1st Tax but that was when I had sepsis. They say Herceptin has no SE’s, except obviously the possible heart thing, so if it was me I would probably phone my haematology unit for advice.

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Hi Divvy
Thanks for this. I still have the rash today, but it is less itchy. I think it is just prickly heat, and the antiseptic cream was keeping it too damp and making it worse. I think it is drying out now, so lets hope so.

Just doing that typical thing and blaming every slight change on the cancer treatment!!! :slight_smile:

Hope you are well and those fingernails are growing well now.
Flora xxx

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Hi Flora,

I’ve just come on the site looking for the same thing!!
My rash started afew weeks ago… At the same time as rads planning and rads. In the end I put it down to the strong washing powder of the elegant hospital gown! Washed it in my own powder and the rash seemed to die down. Also flaired up again when I wore a necklace with a leather cord… was fine wearing it before! Now a week after rads have finished it’s flaired up again!! Not sure why this time. But having a quick search on the net, I think it’s a side effect of Tamoxifen, are you taking it?
Hope you’re doing well with treatment and rads goes well for you

Sarah x

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Hi Sarah

I haven’t started rads yet, so although I have my hospital gown I haven’t been wearing it!

But yes, I am most of the way through my first month of Tamoxifen, so it could be that.

It is calming down now, but has left a very, very dry patch of skin.

Thanks for the hint, I’ll go and do some more research…

Am feeling more and more normal every day, just need to get these rads out of the way now! Hope it was kind to you.
xxx

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Hi Sarah & Flora

Hospital gown ? How posh are you ? I had rads stripped to the waist with ONE piece of paper to cover my modesty which invariably floated off onto the floor at the first whisper of the air con.

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what you had modesty, nothing just stripped off in room where had rads. Flora i had rash but on same side as my op but was about 3 months after rads and no-one knew what it was - wierd x