SARCOIDOSIS OF THE SKIN
One in four (25%) of patients will have skin involvement. These patients will develop painful or red, raised bumps on the legs or arms (called erythema nodosum), discoloration of the nose, cheeks, lips and ears (called lupus pernio) or small brownish and painless skin patches are symptoms of the cutaneous form of the disease.
When I developed skin sarcoidosis, I was scared and angry. The one thing I had was absolutely beautiful skin; all my life people have complimented me on my skin. I was thinking God of all things, why my face; I already have one negative which is my eye. My bother accidentally hit me in the eye with a rock when I was three; I lost vision and muscle strength in the eye, which make my eyes look real strange at times. I said to myself, now I am going to have blotchy uneven skin tone to go along with my eye. Well, after months of steroid shots in the face, daily applying steroid cream, I was able to stop my skin form lighting, and resolve the lupus pernio, plaques, and most of the erythema nodosum. With that being said, I am very thankful that my break-out was not as severe as some sarcoidosis suffers.
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The facts are taken from the Foudation of Sacoidosis Research (FSR)
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