Welcome New Member / Case History/Newly Dx with EN

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Dear ,On behalf of all our members, welcome to our Erythema Nodosum Group! Thanks for sending in your Questionnaire. I have added your information to our "Member Medical History" Files on the Group site and posted it below.You now have Full EN Group privileges.You are receiving ALL EN Group emails, and you may also visit the Erythema Nodosum Group Site:http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/erythema_nodosum_Group/ whenever you like by logging on with your Yahoo ID and secret password.You do not have to have the group emails delivered to be a member here.I hope you will remain a member here to support others even after you go into remission. Since EN IS NOT BEING ACTIVELY RESEARCHED, please take this opportunity to make a generous donation to our "EN Research Fund" to find a cure for this painful disorder. Instructions have been sent to you.Also, please visit our New Erythema Nodosum Websitehttp://www.geocities.com/erythema_nodosum/ We intend to make it the best EN website on the net.I believe your dr. is on the right path.Welcome to our Friendly Erythema Nodosum Group!Love,Chronic Idiopathic EN since 1968******** 's Case History5/11/081. Your name and age: , age 582. Your location: Norwich UK3. Your email address: c.roberts337@...4. Your Yahoo ID: mo_reta5. Describe your erythema nodosum/PG symptoms or, if you do not have EN or PG, please explain why you wish to join this group.:Mine started with a single lump near my knee. Then I found more lumps in my fore arm and bigger lumps started to appear on my legs, at that stage they were pale pink and tender. I had noticed that in theweeks leading up to this I had increased stiffness in my feet and knees, but I put this down to age,Now I have lumps in the tender part of both forearms and on both legs. Ob one leg they are red, the other leg is worse. the legs have angry hard red bands on them and they are painful. My feet are very swollen, one a lot worse than the other.My doctor initially told me that what I had looked like vascular inflammation, but when he had another look a week later he said it was Erythema Nodosum. I didn't tell him this but I had reached the same conclusion when I googled for tender lumps legs on google.Before developing this condition I had been on steroids for a year as I was suffering from COP/BOOP and extrinsic allergic alveolitis. I stopped taking steroids in December. My doctor thinks this could be significant. http://lungdiseases.about.com/od/termsdefinitions/f/what_is_boop.htm