Poll of the Day > okay guys why is my foot swollen?

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I dont recall hitting it, dropping anything on it, getting bit by anything etc.

but its been looking like THIS for like 3 days. it does appear to be getting slightly better by the day

https://imgur.com/msLwnFb

Sometimes it throbs in pain, other times it hardly hurts. I feel like when I am walking it hurts the least overall. it doesn't feel like my bones or joints are affected. I can't move those toes well, but that seems due to swollen constrictedness and not some sort of "structural" issue.

what the fuck is this?

It started small, between the big toe and the one next to it a week ago. it felt tender and made walking slightly more difficult.

NOW, you see this is the kinda shit i'm dealin' with. it's gonna take me over. or is it?

my big toe nail is red in that one spot I suspect because i dropped a bottle of vodka on it once months ago. I still say that hurt like a bitch but it did save me from cleanin'

i gave it a lil nibble

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I had a potential covid issue this week and YOU NIBBLED MY FOOT...

Well shucks I am honored but if it could not hurt as much...

i got the vaccine dude im immune and your toesies looked tasty

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Something bit you, on spooky nights you will turn into a hybrid of you and that thing. And when you wake up youll just be naked some of the time. So good luck getting home naked. You can do it but its gonna suck.

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fuck off it's only september six-teenth!

and i like summer better ANYHOW

could be a blood clot.


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Looks like sunburn

How's your other foot?

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my other foot is fine.

dip it in some ice water

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I had some sort of bug bite on my foot as a teenager. it balloned into a mini golf ball sized mountain, with a nice and juicy spout.

Ah, I remember the day it broke. I didn't feel it but my sock was bloody as hell.

Same foot, too.

Gout?


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ive seen photos of gout and they appear to have like a ball stickin off they foot.

this looks like it could maybe be a blood clot. its the most, but not totally accurate one i've researched to mine.

assuming this is an accurate picture from a website, it doesn't look like this

https://www.thrombocyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/blood-clot-in-foot.png

https://www.thrombocyte.com/signs-of-blood-clot-in-foot/

now my ankles are fine, so this describes ankles as having problems, but I have had other symptoms on here such as the light fever, so I don't know

go put a bag of frozen peas on it bruh, then make an appointment at a clinic asap

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I did some research into a blood clot in the foot and that seems likely.

I am going to go tomorrow after work to some sort of clinic or something. this does actually seem concerning.

You should not work or wait until tomorrow. you need a doctor or something to check you out

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Excessive masturbation.

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okay i think i may go to the emergency room.

but first this is america somebody translate this for emergency room visits:

• Deductible - Does not apply
• Coinsurance - Plan pays 100%
• Copay - $200
• Frequencies & Limitations - $200 copay
• Deductible - waived
• Your plan pays 100% for emergency use of emergency room copay waived if confined
• Not covered non-emergency use of emergency room

I feel like this means I can just go with minimal penalty

Sounds like the visit will probably cost you $200 but they can always bill you if you cant pay right this moment, you dont wanna play games with a possible blood clot

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I am at the emergency room now

Theres amish people in the waiting room. All jokes aside amish people are super cool but oh ho modern technology prevails again!

nah, probably not amish. what's that other group of people...

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MENONITES!!!!

i remembered

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I think they are speaking Pennsylvania Dutch to eachother now. What a cool language!

i sometimes forget that there are pockets of the midwest that are different, their own little culture pockets

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Really, 27 posts and no "cancer, you're gonna die?"
What happened to you PotD?

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Zareth posted...

Really, 27 posts and no "cancer, you're gonna die?"
What happened to you PotD?

theres less of us now, some got cancer and died

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i want to say he already had butt cancer but i'm not actually sure it was cancer or not

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Mead posted...

theres less of us now, some got cancer and died

why didn't I think of that, derp

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Diverticulitis!!!!

Pockets in tha colon infested with poop infections.

12 inches of colon removed and an ostomm bag for a month

Ahh. The Cubs won the world series that year

no idea for sure, but it seems like your big toe is infected through the nail? if that's an infection you might be in danger of sepsis/blood poisoning and/or damage to your foot tissues (like permanent damage to the joints). I've had relatively minor things like that, but never that bad.

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I suspect that happened because i dropped a bottle of vodka on it months ago. I dont think the toe nail there has any bearing on this situation.

argonautweakend posted...

I suspect that happened because i dropped a bottle of vodka on it months ago. I dont think the toe nail there has any bearing on this situation.

it would be how it entered. you'd need broken skin/hangnail or something of that nature for it to start. but it could definitely be something else, that's just my very limited intuition.

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its been like an hour what did they do

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Its the emergency room bro it may as well be thawing ice on a 33 degree day.

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE FOOT

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Probably cellulitis. An infection of the skin. Usually treated with antibiotics. That looks kind of severe so they might want to keep you for IV antibiotics. If they try to admit you and you sign out against medical advice, your insurance will not cover the ER visit. See if theyll prescribe your oral antibiotics to take at home (assuming its cellulitis) Good luck. Report back bud.

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are you standing on the side panel of a PC case?

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No >_>

So far ive been asked questions and ive been in the waiting room for two and a half hours

Its cellulitis baby

Damn i bet the farm on "blood clot"

onlyfans them toes to pay for your vist

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Staph infection, bruv

Congrats on going to the doctor and not losing your foot

Go to the doctor.

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Probably too late to recommend not going to the ER
Welp, hope they found out what's up

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Don't tell people you dropped vodka, embellish and say you dropped your biggest bullion. And if that's not large enough for that kinda damage embellish that too!

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I've had something similar ONCE but it only lasted like 2 hours total

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Okay, so I do feel that since I thought it was a blood clot(so many symptoms lined up) this was worth an ER trip to quell the fear, because those can be deadly.

But while I am glad I do not have anything that serious(and even after 1 anti bio pill it feels better), this played out like how I hoped it didn't:

wait for 4.5 hours, am seen for 15 minutes, prescribed antibiotics....find out it isn't that serious of an issue. I feel like wasted time in a sense, especially because I couldn't go to bed until I got home at 6:30AM. This should only cost $200, which isn't much at all compared to other ER trips I've made in the past, so that's nice. Plus, I don't see how else I'd have gotten a definitive answer and a prescription for what I need to fix it if I just "waited it out"

BUT this has awakened me to taking better care of my health. I have great health insurance now, I should use it. The things I have been neglecting lately such as routine checkups and other things I need to get looked at. "feeling good" which is generally the case is no excuse to not take care of my health.

I don't even fear the doctor, but I struggle to book stuff and plan ahead, but I am going to try to make a concerted effort to take care of my health in ways I have neglected for a while.

Eh, I wouldn't call cellulitis a non-serious issue. Especially not with that kind of swelling. It's generally fairly easy to treat, and minor cases will go away on their own, but leaving a bad enough case untreated can lead to life-threatening infections. It was definitely worth getting checked out.

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