Question:
Or better, what does beginning vasculitis look like? I have some really weird stuff in my mouth and some on my lower legs. It looks like tiny, tiny dark red dots and some are a little bigger. They gather in up to 2-inch formations and showed up in conjunction with a flare of my usual mysterious inflammatory mouth ulcers. I've had lighter and larger splotches under the skin on a finger and at the base of my right thumb, but they went away again. I've looked at pictures of different kinds of vasculitis, but the people at the pictures had pretty severe vasculitis and often large ulcers, so I didn't become any wiser. The only thing that resembles "my stuff" is a weird kind of rheumatic disease called Behcet's, but that kind of arthritis is supposedly most common among Oriental men. The AS/PA I have is not associated with such things, so if it hasn't gone away after the holidays I'll call my RD. At least I never have a dull moment here!

Answer: -That doesn't sound like the vasculitis leading to cellulitis that I have. The redness on me is sheet-like and comes on like lightning. Or like the light spidery webs of beginning varicose veins.Yours sounds like the "broken capillaries" appearance known as petechae. There's lots of dermatological conditions that involve petechae. :-( Hope the one you have is ID'd correctly. -Yes, petechiae was exactly what I meant! It's called the same in Swedish, but for some reason I didn't come up with the word. Thanks for the visualisation of your vasculitis. Those dermatology atlases always have the scariest pictures. -It isn't as scary as it sounds, on its most a little ugly looking. They have been there for almost two weeks, some of them have disappeared and some new have turned up. No bruises or such, so I'm not too worried.