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Pebs · 24-05-2008, 19:40

Glad you're home!

Sheesh, anything to get out of seeing us.....

SCM · 24-05-2008, 19:47

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Originally Posted by Matblack

I'm back

I've had three lots of two different antibiotics intravenously and the doc has sent me home with explicit instructions to come back if the coloration spreads (it was halfway down my forearm) I have Fluclox and Penicillin in max safe doses which he thinks should clear it by the end of next week. Halfway through today I was tucked up in a hospital bed shaking with a very high temp. God bless intravenous paracetamol!

Thanks for all your messages, my advice is, if it really hurts go to A&E don't put a brave face on it go.

MB

Glad your home MB and you only need 2 different antibiotics to nuke it

Word of advice though from my own experience don't even think about work for a week until the pills have done the job. Sitting at a desk/working with this kind of issue makes you feel worse especially pain and fever wise. Thats if they haven't advised you this way already but if they haven't stay off work until it clears up then take it easy when you do go back.

It took 2 weeks for me to get back to work, as went back after getting out of hospital after a week there and i was home by midmorning the first day back. It isn't worth making it worse by rushing back believe me.

SCM

Matblack · 25-05-2008, 10:31

It's spreading, I think I'll have to go back in this afternoon

MB

Matblack · 25-05-2008, 10:49

Here are links to pics.

Its not too gross but you can see the ring the doctor drew yesterday and said 'if it goes outside that ring you'd better come back ASAP' :/

Right arm, normal

Left arm, hurty

'scuse flabby arms

MB

SidewinderINC · 25-05-2008, 10:54

That's horrible MB - I really hope it clears up soon and doesn't cause any long lasting problems.

Piggymon · 25-05-2008, 11:10

Ouch ! Looks really painful

Pebs · 25-05-2008, 11:14

Get your butt back to hospital!!

Matblack · 25-05-2008, 11:23

I'll phone the doctor at 12 as thats when he comes on shift and he said he would see me rather than make me wait, hes a the Senior A&E and Clinical Decisions Doc so he'll be able to refer me if need be, if I go now I'll be in the A&E queue

MB

Daz · 25-05-2008, 11:27

Hope they can draw a line under it so you can get better dude

petemc · 25-05-2008, 11:35

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Originally Posted by Daz

Hope they can draw a line under it so you can get better dude

Looks like they've already tried that

But damn that don't look good

Hopefully its one of those things that gets a little worse before getting better. Mine lasted a few days to a week. So sore to touch and the infection thing felt like flu.

24-05-2008, 19:40	#41
Pebs Easymouth Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6,716	Glad you're home! Sheesh, anything to get out of seeing us..... __________________ ...faster you naughty little monkey! Running through hell, heaven can wait!

25-05-2008, 10:31	#43
Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	It's spreading, I think I'll have to go back in this afternoon MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"

25-05-2008, 10:49	#44
Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	Here are links to pics. Its not too gross but you can see the ring the doctor drew yesterday and said 'if it goes outside that ring you'd better come back ASAP' :/ Right arm, normal Left arm, hurty 'scuse flabby arms MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"

25-05-2008, 10:54	#45
SidewinderINC Joey Tempest Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Gravesend. Posts: 2,751	That's horrible MB - I really hope it clears up soon and doesn't cause any long lasting problems. __________________ No Sig.

25-05-2008, 11:10	#46
Piggymon Lara Croft Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: PigmoPad - Braintree Essex Posts: 8,604	Ouch ! Looks really painful __________________ BF% 28/08/08 - 21%

25-05-2008, 11:14	#47
Pebs Easymouth Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6,716	Get your butt back to hospital!! __________________ ...faster you naughty little monkey! Running through hell, heaven can wait!

25-05-2008, 11:23	#48
Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	I'll phone the doctor at 12 as thats when he comes on shift and he said he would see me rather than make me wait, hes a the Senior A&E and Clinical Decisions Doc so he'll be able to refer me if need be, if I go now I'll be in the A&E queue MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"

25-05-2008, 11:27	#49
Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	Hope they can draw a line under it so you can get better dude __________________ apt-get moo