Comments | tnmisery: Name that mystery ailment!

tnmisery

Name that mystery ailment!

Aug 10, 2006 23:20

Tomorrow, bright and early at 7am, I find out what's causing the festering wounds and pustules cropping up on my legs. Yeah, that's a nice description, I know, but that's what it IS. They already called and said it wasn't MSRA, aka the crap that puts you in the hospital, so yay that! BUT, did they culture for everything? They wouldn't say any ( Read more... )

pirates win

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petzipellepingo August 11 2006, 08:55:45 UTC

Sending lots and lots of healing vibes 'cause EEEWW! but a spiffy new couch is good.

tnmisery August 12 2006, 03:15:55 UTC

Thanks, lady. It is TOTALLY EEEEWWWW!!!

I don't want to set on the couch, cause I'm afraid I'll give it something. Hehe.

beanbeans August 11 2006, 10:03:42 UTC

My body had a severe allergic reaction to having to sit on teh tacky.
HEEEEEEEE!

Poor woobie. *kicks the ever-livin-crap outta teh germies you have* Hope they come up with some real answers for you today, babe.

Yay for the new couch and new phone.

Thinking of you today.

kasheesty August 11 2006, 11:43:40 UTC

I've MISSED you! It's been a longass time!!

Seems like a simple procedure to culture the leg pustules & see what grows out....no MRSA is good,
get 'em to rule out VRE and ESBL (the latest uberbug) if you can.

Sounds like nasty shit--how'd it srart?

Hang in there,lady,okay?

tnmisery August 12 2006, 03:13:51 UTC

Man, the doc told me the test was totaly inconclusive for everything. How can that even be possible? **ripping out hair**

Thanks for the heads up on the two new creepy-crawlies out there.

It started out looking like a bug bite, but worse, so I figured spider bite, which is supposedly a very common way for staph to present. Then it just kept getting BIGGER, like the size of a silver dollar. Then it started spreading to the other leg where they rub together, like, right above my knees.

I'm gonna hang in. I ain't gonna lie, I wanted to just get wasted a couple of nights this week to just stop thinking about it, but decided a hangover plus festering? Hell no. :D

I'll keep ya posted.

txvoodoo August 11 2006, 19:08:54 UTC

What is it with you and me and festering postules and stuff? Good news is that after $700 of meds (that's AFTER insurance), mine are gone.

tnmisery August 12 2006, 03:06:14 UTC

It's because we're sensitive, delicate flowers trying to exist in this cruel, dirty world.

OMG, TELL me about the meds!!! The seven Levaquin? $140.00. *gets diarrhea just thinking about the price*

Get this shit. My culture was totally inconclusive. I KNEW it. I've got an appt. with a dermatologist in TWO weeks. I don't know if I can stand two more weeks of fester and rot. Blergh...
I'm about to do the bad thing and go online to try and diagnose myself. I've avoided it so far, but damn. Don't be surprised if I'm screaming about having Guinea worms or Ebola or some shit. :D

sockmonkeyhere August 12 2006, 20:07:34 UTC

If it helps, I think I've got scabies.

Or hives; I'm not sure which. I treated myself for scabies just in case. Wonder if yours is some kind of allergy?

tnmisery August 13 2006, 05:44:21 UTC

Awww, hell, woman. Scabies is a right bitch. And don't think I haven't been considering that. I think I'm going to get a second opinion this week instead of waiting a week and a half.
There has to be a doc, somewhere, that can tell me what this shit is. Gah.

sockmonkeyhere August 13 2006, 20:58:03 UTC

Scabies is a right bitch.

It's a right itch, too; I've clawed myself bloody. The cootie-killer lotion seems to have done the trick, though, because the itch is finally fading.

I accused the old man of giving me syphilis, of course.

LMAO!

Your description of your leg zits sounds just like what happened to my legs at summer camp when I was about twelve. Over a period of days my shins became covered with chigger bites, mosquito bites, and poison ivy, and all that turned into an impetigo infection. My shins were one solid mass of crusty yellow ooze and bloody scabs, and on my ankles I developed big lumpy white pus boils, and my legs were so sore that I could barely walk.

Yeah, I went home early that year. ;D

When I showed my doctor, he was horrified to hear that the camp counselors had been treating the sores with pink Caladril lotion. He said that that had just made it worse, and he put me on some kind of antibiotic to clear it up instead.

So be sure to get tested for impatigo as well as allergies!