Is it Scabies?

I went to the doctor because I broke out on my hands, the side of my stomach and the inside part of my leg. Because they itched the doctor suspected it was scabies and he gave me a subscription to the stuff to treat scabies....but no one in my house got it, I stayed with my girlfriend several times over the past few weeks after breaking out and she never got it, I never went anywhere to get it or anything... do you really think it's scabies?

I doubt it. I was diagnosed with it, given the creme, and the itch persisted. I then went to a dermatologist because the itch was driving me insane, and this second doctor diagnosed it as eczema, gave me a steroid creme, and it finally healed.

Twenty years later I don't believe it was either - it wasn't scabies - it wasn't eczema.

I have chronic Lyme and microwave sickness - both produce strange skin rashes. I would seriously investigate both of these, and if you use a cell phone or cordless phone, you may essentially be allergic to EMF/RF exposure, which is what microwave sickness boils down to.

If the medication does not relieve the itch and heal the rash, it isn't scabies.

Lucky you didn't give it to anyone.

You are lucky you have a good doctor who knew how to treat it. It can be tough to get rid of.

follow up with the doctor.

NO....scabies is HIGHLY contagious. If your GF or close family contacts does not have them....then it is highly unlikely that that is scabies.

doesn't sound like it, scabies is infectious. could be an allergic rash with similiar symptons. you can get scabies by being in contact with hay.

It may well be. There is usually an incubation time for these kinds of things, your girl friend may still come down with it.

Scabies do not go away without aggressive treatment, and usually
unless you are very weird, extremely masochistic, they are so miserable you must get treatment.
Usually with a lotion called Quell, which I believe is the best, and the
entire family needs to use it. Then you need to wash everything in the house
that is washable and put it into a hot dryer. The rest you iron with a hot iron. Head Lice requires a different treatment. With lice you can see the
nits in the hair, clinging to the roots and use shampoo. Body lice
are treated similarly to scabies. All these make the poor victim
itch, and are extremely humiliating, especially to school children.
Kids can be very cruel.

Scabies are a real little mite which burrows under your skin, and they
burn like fire, and itch like crazy. You must kill them, sometimes
you must do the entire treatment several times. If someone in your
home is hanging around with someone who has them, and keeps
re introducing them into your home, you are not going to get it
cleared up, until you either get them treated or they quit hanging out
together. You can get them
like lice, from simply sitting somewhere someone has sat in a bus
station, etc., or a chair in a hospital, or a movie theater, or any where
someone has sat who had them. Isn't that wonderful. That was
sarcasm. Contrary to what a lot of people think, people in homeless
shelters usually do not have lice or scabies. They are made to
bathe every day, and wash their hair, and their clothing. They
get treated if they have these things. People admitted to nursing
homes, etc., are thoroughly assessed and treated for these things. Fortunately,
we have fewer and fewer episodes of these things, because people have more access
to running water, soap, laundry facilities, bathing and health care
with medical treatment. School nurses catch these things before
they get to epidemic proportions. I worked as a Caseworker for
the Division of Family Services for two years,going into the poorest of homes,making many home visits, rural, city, the "whole bit", never once
did I get head lice, body lice or scabies from one of these home visits.