freudfried wrote:
> don't ask me how but in 20 years of injecting everything from tuinals
to
> dillies to plain ole H I've managed to avoid abcesses
> ..................except for now. I'm hoping my body will fight this
off
> because I'd hate to have to go to my doctor with whom I've a good
> relation****p with and explain why the hell I have a huge abcess on my
left
> arm. I figure a good prescription of keflex or penecillin will do it.
I
> don't want to have to incise and drain the damn thing but as it seems
> neither to be getting better nor worse I'll have to do something
quickly
> because I have a trip scheduled soon. I'm sure you guys have
experiences
> with these things. I may just walk into an ER and take care of it
but I'm
> in a city where that would take an entire day and doctors as we all
know are
> judgemental as hell !
How much swelling is there? Does the redness radiate from the area in
streaks? A clearly-demarcated area of extreme swelling?
There is the spectre of cellulitis -- this may change the systemic
antibiotic question...
