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| Sun, 07-18-2004 - 10:07am |
Well what a day I had yesterday.. well started Friday.. Friday I came down with three boils like sores.. its called Lesions.. I have a disease that I am also fighting called Hedridnitus.. sup.. something .. its called HS.. and so anyway I have had three going on for about a week.. at the beginning of last week they started going away.. and by Friday night it was really bad.. by Saturday I went to work that afternoon at 2 when I got off from work I was hurting really bad.. I came home checked my sugar and it was 102.. which was hey really good considering how I was feeling. and so I started running a fever.. at first it was 99.5 .. and then later around 5:30 I took it and it was 100.1 which was still not that bad.. but I also not only have 3 boils I have had a rash come up yesterday on my stomach and its even has gone to my leg.. I could barely walk in so much pain:( .so last night I started thinking after my sugar was 137 I was like well.. no its not over 140 or 200... but I have all these other signs going on the rash,,, the 3 boils...lesions.. so I decided you know maybe its time to go to the doctor well ER.. so I decided no I didnt wont to go at all.. but made myself go down to the ambulance house and let them look at it and see what they thought.. my blood pressure was good.. the bottom number was 84 which is very good... (another sign of losing weiight is your blood pressure will go down:)..She said oh yea you need to go to ER especially since you are a diabetic.. she said you never know what could happen if you dont get that taken care of now.. So I went to ER.. and he said that one sore is infected.. which was where I had one lanced June 23..04 (diagnosed diabetic as well).. that was when they found out I was a diabetic:( So he said I had cellulitus.. and 3 boils or lesions.. and that I needed to take two antibiotics.. and take sit baths with Epson salt.. WEll I dont know about yall but I would think that would burn so I was like no way it burns enough without having salt added to it.. so I sat in a cool bath water last night.. I just dont know what I am going to do.. I just do not know.. bye for now room Melody

When my son was young, he had blood poisoning from a wound on his leg and I had to give him baths in epson salts and he didn't mind it at all.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Hidradenitis/
http://www.hidradenitis-suppurativa.org/
Let us know how you're doing. It's good that your blood sugars are staying in control! Mine would probably be shooting up with the added stress.
I hope you get to feeling better soon!
- Gina
Make sure the doctors explain to you what they want you to do because if you don't understand you aren't likely to comply. If you don't know why they are asking you to use Epson Salts and what it is, you won't understand and then you won't be able to follow their directions.
Epson Salts won't make you feel worse and infact will make you feel better. So will they warm water soaks. You need to get the infection out and let the healing start and that is was this treatment will do. So go get some epson salts at a local pharmacy. It is not very expensive and take your hots soaks as directed. I tell people who have boils and infected wounds to soak their lesion for 20 minutes four times a day. You will be amazed at how much this helps. But please follow your doctor's directions. There is good science behind them.
I hope you are feeling better real soon,
Mary Frances
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Co-CL Diabetes Board
So sorry your going through all of this. I am glad though that you went to the ER to get checked since having an infection with diabetes is not at all good especially with weak immune to fight off infections. Now the epson salt it used to clean out your sores and does not hurt at all just helps to get out the bad stuff, which they use it with track people who have fallen to help get out all the small particles that you find on some tracks since it helps to lift it out of the skin easier than digging
Epson Salts helps draw out the infection and is soothing. Don't be afraid of it, and be sure to take your antibiotics regularly.
Good luck with recovery.
Kathi