Tryptamine*Dreamer
Ex-Bluelighter
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I am feeling good now, and sober too (something unusual for me). My arm infection had completely cleared up as of last night and was the same when I woke this morning. When at its worst, I almost died. It was massively swollen, red halfway down to my wrist and at least halfway up to my shoulder. Before it got to that severity, I went to the ER twice after my initial visit for nerve damage/numbness and weakness from sleeping on it for 12 hours. Those second two times, the doctors would not even touch the affected areas or let me describe the symptoms. The second time, the doctor gave me a minute or less, just diagnosing cellulitus, a skin infection. The infection was very deep and if he would have felt or allowed me to show him he would have seen it. My blood pressure plummeted to 50/32 at its lowest late that night as my family tried to get me to the car. They kept me alive and my blood pressure higher by making me wake up every time I passed out and making me move around, make noise, and shaking my body for hours.
Over the last six or seven hours, my elbow has swollen back up almost as bad. The redness has not spread much beyond my elbow yet but my arm is hot from my shoulder to a couple of inches below the elbow. It turns cold below that area through my hand and the left third or more of my hand is numb again. It would be pointless to go back to the ER as they would do nothing. I'll just have to wait until it gets really bad and hope it is not too late. But at the moment, I am fine.
They did not prescribe anything either last time but told me I needed to be on antibiotics.
I guess I have a really good immune system or something because I can fight off infection like a motherfucker. In my late teens, I injected mixtures of feces and water into my muscles to make myself sick or possibly cause death at least a dozen times and never got sick or even needed treatment for abscesses or anything like that.
Over the last six or seven hours, my elbow has swollen back up almost as bad. The redness has not spread much beyond my elbow yet but my arm is hot from my shoulder to a couple of inches below the elbow. It turns cold below that area through my hand and the left third or more of my hand is numb again. It would be pointless to go back to the ER as they would do nothing. I'll just have to wait until it gets really bad and hope it is not too late. But at the moment, I am fine.
They did not prescribe anything either last time but told me I needed to be on antibiotics.
I guess I have a really good immune system or something because I can fight off infection like a motherfucker. In my late teens, I injected mixtures of feces and water into my muscles to make myself sick or possibly cause death at least a dozen times and never got sick or even needed treatment for abscesses or anything like that.
