Comments on: Toasted Skin Syndrome (No, I’m Not Making This Up)

By: erin

erin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:06:19 +0000

hi thank you for your post – do you know how to get rid of the marks? i have had it for a while now and I am worried it will not go away is there any way to treat it?

thank you for your help!

By: tny34

tny34 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:19:21 +0000

I also have this rash on my back due to use of heating pad for extended periods of time due to severe back pain. Now I’m very worried about cancer and will be calling a dermatologist ASAP!

By: Jessy

Jessy — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:13:28 +0000

Hi everyone. I;’m a fifteen your old cheerleader and gymnast. over the summer i hurt my back and was told to use a heating pad. i have been using it everyday since july. just the other day i found something that looks similar to the picture but its also very rough dry sink. is it the same thing? i’m concerned and i’m worried to tell my mom. i noticed the rash the day after i fell asleep on the heating pad in a sports bra. its on both sides of my torso and part of my back. help would be very appreciated.

jessy

By: bob

bob — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:07:11 +0000

Remember that we all think what we have is the same medical condition. It appears to be very common. Myself, I jump to conclusions often and am often wrong, but never in doubt. So I’ll stop using the heat pad and see if it clears up. One real threat is always things like that possibly becoming cancerous, so I’ll be happy with skin blotches as long as they don’t turn into skin cancer. Only a biopsy might really tell if it’s cancerous, so you roll the dice if you decide not to go to a skin cancer specialist. It seems a prolonged irritation of anything in your body might predispose the organs to cancer (smoking and sunburn are cases in point).

By: nicol

nicol — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:56:53 +0000

I feel a little better knowing im not alone in this horrible situation. but please does any one know of a CURE?!?!!?!?!?!? home remedies? surgery?? anything!! please help!!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:13:51 +0000

Hi I have this on my stomach and back. The one on my stomach is much worse than the one in the picture. My doctor said it might be from my hot water bottle. The problem I have is i am in constant pain froma stomach problem they cant diagnose and the pain goes into my back. The pain keeps getting worse and my pain killers dont seem to be helping anymore but the hot water bottle gives me a bit a relief at least to get comfortable. The mark on my stomach keeps getting huge blisters on it and when my pain gets worse it seems to spread. When i went to turkey it faded quite alot even tho i was still using my hot water bottle but now i am back in england it has got alot worse again. The blisters keep getting infected and going disgusting plus they smell horrible. I am only 21 and dont have a life due to being so ill is there anything i can do about this without stopping the use of my hot water bottle?

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:31:11 +0000

I have this on my slower back. I’m always cold so I sit infornt of the heater alot when I’m home! Can it really be permanent? Mine is not going away and I’v stopped sitting infront of it so often . Is there nothing else I can do? Anything I can put on it to make it go away?
Thanks.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:40:38 +0000

Those of you putting your laptops on your laps need to stop for two reasons…the one listed above and you are going to fry your hard drives. You should be using a laptop cooler so that your laptop doesn’t overheat. If the laptop is on your lap, it isn’t able to vent enough heat to keep the hard drive cool. Buy a laptop cooler. It will solve both problems.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:30:25 +0000

I have a rash on my left thigh as well. It’s not as bad as the picture. I am on my laptop all the time and I’m guessing that it’s the vents from my computer causing this. Hopefully it will go away, because I don’t really like the look of it. I’m glad to know where it’s coming from and I am going to go buy a computer rest thing very soon. Thank’s for the help.

By: SaraC

SaraC — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:45:08 +0000

hubby is paraplegic with rods in his shins, leg circulation bad from knees down > they’re always kinda cold, so we put a heating pad under feet at night to help, we didn’t prob have enough padding/sheets between the pad & skin, was using it for a month, then he had a minor fall and it the midst of it the skin on his heel peeled off on one foot, a 2-inch circular area of the full skin layer it seems, seems fleshy underneath so I think its the whole skin layer that lifted, not much blood a lil, just clear fluid is there, we hadn’t noticed it prior but seems like it was a sort of blister with fluid then he hit his heel & it ripped off, a lil 1cm one is at undertip of his big toe too, its darkened grayish>think blood is underneath at the surface, but I drain it, he’s at doctor today 5th day, but wondering if a pad could cause the skin to do that, kind of detach, gets fluid, then what? does the body plan to slough off that whole thick layer to heal itself? not sure, he also walked 3miles in leg braces for SD RockRoll marathon a week prior, previous longest distance was 1 mile, maybe it was that…