Petechiae

My upper abdomen was covered with tiny cherry angiomas when I had big pressure in my belly when I had ascites. Did they look like this?



https://www.google.com/search?q=tiny+cherry+angiomas&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari#biv=i|0;d|FwS-cNc5O4BEzM:



Mine faded after my surgery. Evidently some drugs (chemo?) can cause them.



Cherry Angioma Causes

There is little known about the factors which add to the formations of a cherry angloma. In extremely rare occasions, they can be caused because of the existence of a developing internal malignancy.



Several reports have described the look of many small red lesions as histologically resembling the lesions in individuals with malignancies, but most of these lesions occur in healthy individuals. There is also the belief that these lesions are caused by genetic malfunctioning.



Many times mustard gas, bromides, 2-butoxyethanol as well as cyclosporine containing chemical compounds are believed to cause cherry angioma.



Stress may also be a contributing factor in the cause of cherry angiomas. It has been proven that any type of continuing stress can cause an individual to age faster and older age is one of the main factors which eventually lead to the development of cherry angiomas.

I did have internal cancer-ovarian. I had also forgotten I had some on my thighs too. When I say they faded, they didn't completely go away but they lost the bright red appearance & look like little pinpoint moles or freckles. They are darker. My labs at the time were all messed up but I can't remember specifics on that.

I've had them for years.  Stress related?  That fits when they first appeared.  Since chemo I've gotten quite a few more.  All are on my torso, neck and face.  Some oddly in pairs.  None of my drs have remarked about them and all have certainly had a chance to see them with how many times I've been topless in the last year and a half!

My story of petechiae is different.  I ended up getting many little spots of it on my treatment side breast.  I noticed a few some months after treatment finished, but they really came out when I had to get squished for the follow-up mammos.  My one breast could not take that pressure.  I attribute mine to rads, since both sides do get squished  for mammos (although the treatment side got more) and only my BC side got the petechiae.  Yes, I did take Tamoxifen, but if that created my problem, then I'd have petechiae on both sides.  I don't have mine on legs or elsewhere.

BTW, I had a laser procedure to try and disappear mine.  I think it was IPL.  That worked o.k. and got rid of most of them, but then I had one mammo since having that and the squishing did create some new ones.  I might get the treatment again, if I feel it is looking too unsightly again.  (Bad enough being scarred up.  It makes me a little upset to have yet another reminder.)

I have some Petechiae now. Monday late afternoon they seemed to rather suddenly appear primarily on my left arm. True to description they are red/purple, flat, do not itch, are not irritated.

I just completed my 4th of 12 Taxol chemo treatment w/ Herceptin. I get a steroid and Benadryl premeds at the clicic immediately before the chemo starts.

Dr has not prescribed Decadron 4 mg a steroid for me to take for the next four days.

While I do have a few spots on my right arm most of them are on my left arm. My mastectomy and 1 sentinel node were on my left side. Can Petechiae relate to lymphedema in any way? I do not have any systems for lymphedema now.

Always something isn't it?