I have not been directly in the sun for a few days. Anything I put on my face makes it burn. Even water!
Q: Yesterday, I woke up with what looked like a horrible sunburn on my face.
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10/23/09 9:47am
Do you have any other symptoms, like pain anywhere in your body?
I saw an episode on the Discovery Health Channel where a woman started looking like he had a sunburn all year (didn't mention burning) - turned out he had Addison's Disease, where the adrenal glands don't produce enough cortisol, a kind of hormone resembling cortisone (that's the replacement for it). But it can take a while to be diagnosed... There may be other diseases that have similar puzzling symptoms not recognizable as disease at first...
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