Blue dabadee dabadah badabadee

[gement]

In entertaining side news, I have a rare medication side effect where my skin turns the toilet seat permanently blue. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

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[randomdreams]

DO WUT.
How does that even happen?

I know people who would like you to sit on their hair.

[gement]

I know you tend more toward the mechanical than the biochemical, but this struck me as your sort of oddity interest

[randomdreams]

Wow. I'll do some reading. I can see why people are exclaiming in confusion. That is kind of awesome and also kind of scary, or at least totally unsettling.

[sistawendy]

And you win the prize for the LJ comment category.

[eeyorerin]

I am glad this medical mystery is of the interesting kind and not of the "further complications" kind at least.

[gement]

Exactly! It makes a nice change. This recovery's going very smoothly with occasional comic relief.

[sistawendy]

Dude! It's too bad you need to take it easy, because you could be turning toilet seats blue all over town.

[hsifyppah]

Pseudochromhidrosis!

Various drugs can cause it - all very rarely, you are indeed a very special snowflake - but when that's the case, usually your skin is blue too at least somewhere on your body. I haven't heard of laxatives doing it, but it's the kind of thing that happens so seldom and is both embarrassing and obviously not life-threatening, so it might just never have been reported to a drug agency. If it's just the toilet seat but your butt isn't particularly blue, it's probably skin bacteria (and certainly a surgical stay in hospital is a good way to acquire some new ones,) in which case a scrub with chlorhexidine soap (I think Hibiclens is the US brand name?) may stop you from being a blue menace.