question: I have been broken out in a rash from my feet to my chest and back and all what is in between since jan 6th 2014. I had surgery on my knee and began breaking out in the recovery room and it has steadily gotten worse. My internist did a biopsy for lymphoma , which came back negative. She sent me to an allergist which could do no skin tests because there was not any area on my back that wasn t broken out. So they sent me to the hospital lab where 19 vials of blood were drawn and sent to the Mayo Clinic for testing. Results have not yet been received. I am absolutely miserable, retaining fluid like crazy, am itching 24 hours a day, am not sleeping. I am just a MESS. I do have a history of ASLE (lupus), but the Drs. All say this is NOT related.