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OMG Doctor originally (when there was 1) diagnosed this as a spider bite. Been on antibiotics for 4 weeks. Got sent to hospital for IV antibiotics.
Doctor there thinks this is vascular- related to lupus- thick sticky blood clogging the teeny arterioles in there - no blood gets to the spot after that and tissue dies and then I get a frackin huge ulcer.
Please give any possible input you might have. It is revolting and any thing at would be helpful. It hurts like hell and there is no real treatment at this stage.
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OMG Doctor originally (when there was 1) diagnosed this as a spider bite. Been on antibiotics for 4 weeks. Got sent to hospital for IV antibiotics.
Doctor there thinks this is vascular- related to lupus- thick sticky blood clogging the teeny arterioles in there - no blood gets to the spot after that and tissue dies and then I get a frackin huge ulcer.
Please give any possible input you might have. It is revolting and any thing at would be helpful. It hurts like hell and there is no real treatment at this stage.
Try a compress soaked in hot water with epsom salts, or better yet immerse the ulcer in hot water with epsom salts for a half hour twice a day. If it's an infection, it will improve. If it's not an infection, it will do no harm.
This is a method commonly used to treat infections before the antibiotics took over things. I got this from a doctor, didn't dream it up or anything. He told me to make the water as hot as I could stand it. Use a few tablespoons of epsom salts in a bucket or basin of hot water.
My guess...if it hurts, it's infected. Watch your body temp and be on the lookout for red lines leading away from the sore spot. Get a doctor to look at it right away if anything like that happens.
Another suggestion...go to a wound care clinic if there's one near you. Most doctors are not that good at treating wounds and ulcers of the skin. At the wound care clinic they might treat it with xeroform dressing.
So if you're on any medications you might want to look up their side effects online to see if there's anything about skin necrosis.