Cellulitis

• by verne8
• 2019-08-16 11:03:30
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My doctor "thinks" I may have cellulitis in a toe adjoining another that has athlete's foot in the toe cleft they share. I have peripheral neuropathy so I never felt the athlete's foot in the cleft (normally I inspect the spaces between my toes daily but I've had a bad case of sciatica and bending my leg is very painful) of my toe. My first notice there was a problem is the second toe was red half way down and swollen. I treated the athlete's foot and it was healing nicely by time I could get to a doctor 4 days later. The redness on the second toe had not progressed and the swelling did seem to go down a bit. I saw a dermatologist who poked at that toe for a good 5 minutes and just couldn't decide if it was or wasn't cellulitis. There's no heat or fever, and even when he squeezed it I felt no pain. Even with my neuropathy I should have felt pain if it existed when he squeezed it. He put me on antibiotics and the swelling decreased and redness has not spread. I think it is lighter. I'm only on day 3 of the antibiotics. SO...

Then someone scared the willies out of me and said that the cellulitis could make a sudden beeline to my PM wires, straight to my heart and I'd be dead. AHHHHH! Anyone have any knowledge that can help? I've searched online but all I find are PM's that are, themselves, the source of the infection...not the case here.

Thanks!