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So this is more of a year long FU but I only had the realisation today.
Burner account for reasons which will become obvious.
For the last year I've had this small circulqr patch of dry skin on my leg. Didn't think anything of it. I wasn't very good at diligent moisturiser use, so I assumed it was dry skin. A few months went by and this small dark brown spot was joined by a few more. Again, I thought it was weird but maybe me going patchy brown from the sun.
This is where I should add to my shame and point out I'm a doctor. Did a brief mental run through of what it could be, but it wasn't a red circle, it just a brown dry sheened patch. With a small dot in the middle.
This continued for at least a year. And on deciding this was ridiculous I began religiously moisturising. But the little dry suckers never changed. By this point, im starting to see random ones on my knee.
One day last week I had 3 different patients in hospital I prescribed tinea treatment for. And they all had nice red rashes on their alabaster skin.
"Wow tinea sure is common" said my stupid stupid brain.
But something about the tinea stuck with me. Lingered in my brain. Until today I looked at those spots on my legs and realised they were, in fact, tinea corporis. I just don't go red.
On the bright side I'm not a dermatologist.
TL:DR: Spent a year thinking tinea was dry skin. Now have random lesions all over my body.
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