oh, joy

[qthewetsprocket]

this week just keeps getting better. apparently the itchy welts on my legs aren't chigger bites after all...they are the result of a bacterial infection.i went to the doctor today and they ran some tests, and said it's a common household bacteria. i think what must have happened is that i didn't wash out my spray bottle well enough before i used it

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[kateorman]

This is appalling! It's like you're in the tropics ffs! There'll be giant worms coming out of your eyeballs next! <= lie

Ye gods - at those temperatures, any bacteria which happened to be in water left in the spray bottle would've been having a lovely time. Might be worth boiling some water on the stove - give it ten minutes, say - then using it to rinse the bottle, then keeping the bottle in the fridge.

Have you got an antibiotic skin cream or something like that as well as pills?

[qthewetsprocket]

Have you got an antibiotic skin cream or something like that as well as pills?no'um, haven't - the doctor i got the pills from only tested the welts a little further north; he actually didn't seem that bothered about the ones on my feet and ankles and called them 'bruises' since they didn't blanche when pressed. another doctor i saw thought they were caused by a viral infection, since viral infections are what usually cause bpv. it fell to me to put two and two together and realize that all the welts must have come from the same place - duh

[kateorman]

WHY ARE YOU THERE AND NOT IN SAY

BRADFORD

EATING A BLACK PUDDING

[qthewetsprocket]

LEEDS > BRADFORD

YORKSHIRE PUDDING > BLACK PUDDING

and mainly, because i can't flap my arms hard enough to fly there.

[mollybarton]

Good God. What next? :( Something similar happened to me in hot weather a few years ago, but that turned out to be a fungus, not bacteria. Urgh.

Better take those antibiotics until they're gone. What kind of reactions do you have to them?

[qthewetsprocket]

heart palpitations, shortness of breath, joint pain, and very bad stomach pain. no histimine reactions so far, thank the gods, but the joint pain is a close enough cousin to make me pretty nervous.

[mollybarton]

That doesn't sound good at all. :( There's no alternative to the antibiotics, I gather?

[kateorman]

I can't take erythromycin orally, or I'll throw up my toes, but I'm basically OK with other antibiotics. Which specific ones gave you those nasty symptoms? Are the new ones the same ones?

[ertchin]

Man, fuck bacteria.

[qthewetsprocket]

...i'd really rather not, thanks. :P

[ertchin]

And yet we do!

(I'm doing it right now, ewwww.)

[ysidro]

Watch out for tropical parasites next.

[gritsinmisery]

If you don't want to mess w/ another trip to the doc right away, get some Polysporin salve. With luck, it'll be enough of an antibiotic (even tho it's OTC) to discourage the stuff on your bod into leaving.

I know you have bad reactions to antibiotics, but take those pills and just be watchful, eh? For Mama GRITS, who really would not want to see you in the hospital on a drip, kthxbai.

[qthewetsprocket]

took the first dose twenty minutes ago. seem to still be alive. if a bit woozy. shall go to the fred meyer tomorrow and get some probiotics to try and help level the playing field a bit.

*hates on antibiotics, nasty bacteria that live in peoples' spray bottles, and vancouver in general*