Didn't think your view of modern medicine could be as cynical as it appeared from your post it could be. That impression didn't fit what i know of you. To me yours read as though you felt blood tests in general were of no value, not as understood now simply that in that one case of yours the tests didn't tell you, or you medical people, anything. And i know you know that one anecdote doesn't really say much about any big picture. Your experience though is interesting to know because from your description of your rash i would have guessed blood might have revealed something.
Also, If i got it right you had the rash for some two plus years i don't know why you didn't have all the tests for analysis i'm, lucky it seems, to be looking at. Why didn't your people do what mine are doing, i wonder.
We agree, of course, medicine and it's practitioners are not perfect. Nothing ever is, and there are new viruses appearing likely most every day. Is good to know you have a good immune system, as far as i know me too. And being told twice that i heal faster than anyone the dentist in one case, a nurse after one op, had ever seen before, was good to hear.
"I so never wanted to have another skin condition that I actually took the shingles shot and hopefully I never get that."
Guess there would be some who haven't had the shot that i know, but all involved in any
conversation lately i've had about shots and shingles have had the latest shingles shot.
Except the one acquaintance who recently died from the flu, who we learned from the autopsy
hadn't seen his gp for three years. He told a friend he had had the shots, but turned out he hadn't.
Thanks for the info about your blood tests. That's good info to take to my people in five days time. Cheers.