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Suggest Remedy For Pain In Legs, Nausea And Chills With Skin Darkening Due To Severe Sunburn

I am extremely sunburnt, especially my abdomen, back, upper thighs/behind and behind my knees. Behind my knees are swollen with a purple color, I m having extreme difficulty walking. There is shooting pains and weakness in my legs. I was experiencing nausea and vomiting for the first couple days with a fever and chills. Now I have chills, the pain and weakness. The sunburn occurred 4 days ago and I already saw a doctor who gave me a prescription of hydrocortisone. It soothes the skin but I m not seeing much progress and I ve never seen my skin this colour of purple before. Thoughts?
Fri, 28 Aug 2015
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Well come to HCM
I really appreciate your concern, sun burn may not cause nausea, chill or malaise like symptoms and it could be due to something else, if I would be treating physician of this case then I would treat this case with "Tab Diphenhydramine 10 mg" three times in day and locally too along with "Tab Acetaminophen" three times in day, hope this information helps, take care and have a nice day.
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Suggest Remedy For Pain In Legs, Nausea And Chills With Skin Darkening Due To Severe Sunburn

HI Well come to HCM I really appreciate your concern, sun burn may not cause nausea, chill or malaise like symptoms and it could be due to something else, if I would be treating physician of this case then I would treat this case with Tab Diphenhydramine 10 mg three times in day and locally too along with Tab Acetaminophen three times in day, hope this information helps, take care and have a nice day.