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Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
My parents also valued $$ over my health when I lived at home. Face it. Most of the time, kids are just exaggerating symptoms, trying to get out of school, etc. Kids do this constantly, and it's boy-who-cried-wolf syndrome.
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I completely agree with you but I'm just not that type of person.

I've been to the ER once before (when I was little and got stung by a bee, allergic to bee stings), and that's it.

I used to do my fair share of feigning illnesses to get out of school, work, etc. when I was younger, but its hard to say I'm faking it when you can look at my elbow and see its the size of a softball and is spewing puss.

My friend's mom was the one who told me to go to the ER (she was a former RN) and said that it could be really serious.

Oh well, this post can be buried now (unless eits has some recommendations of what to put on this).
 
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: alexjohnson16
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: alexjohnson16
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: alexjohnson16
Originally posted by: eits
ok, your mom's a fool. you shouldn't use peroxide on it nor should you push puss out to "keep it clean"....

what you should have done was go to the doctor's so he could have given you an antibiotic because it was probably just a strep abscess (i'm assuming because you said it was cellulitis)....

now, you've got a huge infection that's spreading and it's very dangerous.

you should go to the hospital because an increasing temperature is extremely dangerous when you've got such a huge and chronic infection.... it can lead to neurological damage, heart damage, brain damage, etc.

did the doc give you dicloxacillin or cephalexin?

you should have gotten a shot of rocephin after the diagnosis... if the doctor didn't do that, he's an idiot.
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:frown:

I'm on cephalexin. No shot of rocephin.

The only thing they did was asked questions, took a swab of the liquid on the wound, drew blood, gave me vicodin for the pain, took X-Rays (IDK why?) and gave me a cephalexin for then and one for the morning and told me to meet up with my regular Dr. tomorrow.
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yeah, go to your regular doc tomorrow. he'll probably do better than this er doc...

don't take the vicodin... that was a dumb call by the doc. you don't need vicodin for that... at best, you need 800mg ibuprofen. it's cheaper, less habit-forming, and you don't want to give habit-forming pain pills to people your age.... not that you're a pill popper or anything, but it's a good rule of thumb.... you never know who the patient will sell it to in school or if they'll develop a dependence... same with middle-aged women.

x-rays?!?! wtf?! what the hell kind of differential diagnosis was this guy working on? did it hurt when you moved your elbow or when moved your wrist? did you tell him that you had rapid weightloss or that it constantly hurt during the nighttime? did he find a high level of calcium in your blood? if not, then there really should have been no reason for x-rays....
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So I guess I got the screwjob. It hurt extremely bad when I moved my elbow (from the swelling, I'm guessing).

Any ideas of a cream or something that I can put on my elbow to reduce the swelling and/or the pain? I've been holding my arm over my head and it feels good for a while but then starts throbbing in pain and I have to bring it down, which leads to more pain from the movement.

I did take 1K mg Ibuprofen though. Hopefully this will be better tomorrow morning.
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1k mg isn't good for you... at most, you should have 800mg... that's at MOST. i don't think anyone should have any, but different strokes, i guess (the reason why i don't think people should take nsaids (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) is because the leading cause of hospital visits of people who're middle-aged is for nsaid overuse... gastric bleeding = the side-effect of anti-inflammatories. not to mention the kidney damage.).

depending on how much you told the doctor your elbow hurt when you moved it, he might have been justified in taking the x-ray.... but it just doesn't seem to me that based on your case history and presentation that you can make the call to take an x-ray. he shoulda taken bloodwork first.

i don't know how he got a diagnosis of cellulitis without bloodwork or a biopsy, either. he just took an xray and that was it?

oh well.... cephalexin knocks out both staph and strep infections... cellulitis and a staph. aureus abscess present very similarly...

EDIT: ibuprofen kinda works on a bell curve... around 400mg is as much as you'll ever need.... it's just that more makes the patient think that it's doing more... kinda like a placebo effect. all the extra ibuprofen is doing is hurting your gastrointestinal tract, kindeys, and liver.
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It didn't hurt to the point where I was squirreling around or anything, I was just breathing hard and gritting my teeth.

Guess I screwed up on the Ibuprofen.

He took a culture and a bloodtest before doing the Xray.

Anyways, my fever has subsided, any ideas on things I can put on the wound to relieve the pain/swelling?
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try pain relieving neosporin. if the grocery store is open near you, go grab some. it's got some analgesics in it that help subside the pain.

something else you can do to get rid of the pain is sleep.
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Already ahve some of that. I will put it on and go to sleep.

Thank you very much for your assistance, it's helped eased me a lot.
 
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: alexjohnson16
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: alexjohnson16
Originally posted by: eits
ok, your mom's a fool. you shouldn't use peroxide on it nor should you push puss out to "keep it clean"....

what you should have done was go to the doctor's so he could have given you an antibiotic because it was probably just a strep abscess (i'm assuming because you said it was cellulitis)....

now, you've got a huge infection that's spreading and it's very dangerous.

you should go to the hospital because an increasing temperature is extremely dangerous when you've got such a huge and chronic infection.... it can lead to neurological damage, heart damage, brain damage, etc.

did the doc give you dicloxacillin or cephalexin?

you should have gotten a shot of rocephin after the diagnosis... if the doctor didn't do that, he's an idiot.
Click to expand...

:frown:

I'm on cephalexin. No shot of rocephin.

The only thing they did was asked questions, took a swab of the liquid on the wound, drew blood, gave me vicodin for the pain, took X-Rays (IDK why?) and gave me a cephalexin for then and one for the morning and told me to meet up with my regular Dr. tomorrow.
Click to expand...

yeah, go to your regular doc tomorrow. he'll probably do better than this er doc...

don't take the vicodin... that was a dumb call by the doc. you don't need vicodin for that... at best, you need 800mg ibuprofen. it's cheaper, less habit-forming, and you don't want to give habit-forming pain pills to people your age.... not that you're a pill popper or anything, but it's a good rule of thumb.... you never know who the patient will sell it to in school or if they'll develop a dependence... same with middle-aged women.

x-rays?!?! wtf?! what the hell kind of differential diagnosis was this guy working on? did it hurt when you moved your elbow or when moved your wrist? did you tell him that you had rapid weightloss or that it constantly hurt during the nighttime? did he find a high level of calcium in your blood? if not, then there really should have been no reason for x-rays....
Click to expand...

So I guess I got the screwjob. It hurt extremely bad when I moved my elbow (from the swelling, I'm guessing).

Any ideas of a cream or something that I can put on my elbow to reduce the swelling and/or the pain? I've been holding my arm over my head and it feels good for a while but then starts throbbing in pain and I have to bring it down, which leads to more pain from the movement.

I did take 1K mg Ibuprofen though. Hopefully this will be better tomorrow morning.
Click to expand...

1k mg isn't good for you... at most, you should have 800mg... that's at MOST. i don't think anyone should have any, but different strokes, i guess (the reason why i don't think people should take nsaids (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) is because the leading cause of hospital visits of people who're middle-aged is for nsaid overuse... gastric bleeding = the side-effect of anti-inflammatories. not to mention the kidney damage.).

depending on how much you told the doctor your elbow hurt when you moved it, he might have been justified in taking the x-ray.... but it just doesn't seem to me that based on your case history and presentation that you can make the call to take an x-ray. he shoulda taken bloodwork first.

i don't know how he got a diagnosis of cellulitis without bloodwork or a biopsy, either. he just took an xray and that was it?

oh well.... cephalexin knocks out both staph and strep infections... cellulitis and a staph. aureus abscess present very similarly...

EDIT: ibuprofen kinda works on a bell curve... around 400mg is as much as you'll ever need.... it's just that more makes the patient think that it's doing more... kinda like a placebo effect. all the extra ibuprofen is doing is hurting your gastrointestinal tract, kindeys, and liver.
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*tosses his Naproxen prescription in the trash*
 
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