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To ask advice on this foot wound? (Pic included)

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HCantThinkOfAUsername · 08/07/2019 01:59

So last Friday (10 days ago) I fell off a children's roundabout at work and got a few cuts.

This one on my foot was cleaned straight away and I've been cleaning it with TCP but it's getting worse, my whole foot feels bruised and like the skin is being stretched tight and hot to touch too. My lower leg aches.

I plan on seeing pharmacist tomorrow but noticed there's some red lines coming from the wound and when touched it's very tender, I've a few chronic health problems, not too worried as temp is 37.4 it's just so painful.

Anyone got any tips? Don't want to consult dr google and can't sleep with the pain. Feeling such a wuss.

To ask advice on this foot wound? (Pic included)
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MrsMozartMkII · 09/07/2019 06:01

I'm no medic for sure but that sounds barking mad.

Please raise a major stink when you're back there this morning.

midsummabreak · 09/07/2019 06:03

Please do keep updating. Please reach out to someone to support you at home, i know you have been avoiding people but i know they will understand you are quite unwell.

Can you say you feel embarrased to ask but are really struggling ?

Please do this for us. Worried
Xxoo

amy56542589 · 09/07/2019 06:09

Why do people always carry on about the great NHS when there are so regularly posts like this where they are absolute shit. Not even seen by a doctor or had previous medical history taken into consideration.

Is there another hospital you can go to op?

fraxion · 09/07/2019 06:30

That's appalling. When I had to go to A&E last month after a really nasty fall they checked my notes on the computer to see what I could and couldn't have medication wise. You really need to be forceful about being immunosuppressed, especially given that you can only take certain antibiotics due to taking mxt. I hope you're okay Flowers.

expatinspain · 09/07/2019 07:07

I hope your foot starts to improve. Some hospitals are just shit. There are always excuses about overworked nurses etc etc, but there really is no excuse for treating people the way they do sometimes. I hope you get some better care today OP x

SweatyYFronts · 09/07/2019 07:20

Jesus I can’t believe what I’m seeing! You need IV antibiotics now. I’m a community nurse and I would have called an ambulance for you if I saw this. I’m sorry the hospital is fobbing you off but I can believe it. Not to scare you but I know of an 18 year old girl that went with something similar (same symptoms, dizziness, infected wound etc) and she was fobbed off. She died of sepsis 3 days later. Personally I’d go back and refuse to leave.

Isatis · 09/07/2019 07:27

Why do people always carry on about the great NHS when there are so regularly posts like this where they are absolute shit

Because people tend not to go onto social media to publicise the thousands of times every day when they rely on the NHS and the NHS tends to come good. My mother has been receiving superb care from the NHS over the last three months which would have bankrupted her in somewhere like the UK.

CorBlimeyGovenor · 09/07/2019 07:52

Sorry,but I'm still not happy OP. Apologies to any triage nurses out there, but they are not as experienced or rigourously trained as drs. They are usually good as spotting quick issues, but complex issues such as yours need to be seen by a Dr or consultant. My husband was seen by a triage nurse and was in the latter stages of severe sepsis, yet still was sent home and nearly died hours later. Please make an emergency drs appt and be seen asap by your own Dr this am. If they consider it serious, they will write a letter and send you back to a&e with it. I'm sorry to harp on and on about this, but since my husband's near death, I've done a lot of work raising awareness about Sepsis (when he came out of the coma and off life support he had to relearn how to swallow, sit up, walk again. Two years on and he's still not right). You've had drs on this site telling you that you need to be seen in A&E and that you need IV antibiotics. It's the tracking that is really serious, coupled with your medical history. I know that it hurts like hell and that it's not easy for you to get around, that you are on your own with two young kids, that you've been passed from pillar to post, but you need to be seen by a Dr and not a nurse!

alohadaisy · 09/07/2019 08:00

A+E dr here- that's a referral to medical team for inpatient IV antibiotics if you came to see me. I think that nurse has failed to see the significance.

CottonSock · 09/07/2019 08:01

I'm.sorry op, the hospital in HW doesn't have the best reputation for some things. I hope they treat you well normally given how many things you have going on.

EleanorReally · 09/07/2019 08:06

Hope you get seen by your GP op

girlofthenorth · 09/07/2019 08:25

can you get to the GP this morning and discuss? She / he can get AE involved . Also if you have a good Anticoagulant service or DVT nurse they may be able to intervene.

amy56542589 · 09/07/2019 08:26

Because people tend not to go onto social media to publicise the thousands of times every day when they rely on the NHS and the NHS tends to come good. My mother has been receiving superb care from the NHS over the last three months which would have bankrupted her in somewhere like the UK.

That doesn't excuse substandard care that happens so often. Clearly you haven't read the postnatal care thread.

MissB83 · 09/07/2019 09:09

The reality is that it can be a mixed picture in NHS, I suspect because of so many cuts. In the course of my pregnancy/birth I had a mixture of excellent care (for emergency section) and terrible care bordering on negligence (antenatally- this was admitted by the hospital).

wibbletooth · 09/07/2019 09:40

Op if you’re at the hospital today then hopefully you will speak to someone who recognises how badly you’ve been treated and can sort you out or talk to the right person to sort you properly.

Otherwise - would going to pals and talking to them help? Even just to start with the the fact that they have given you the wrong antibiotic for the anticoagulant you take - I had a DVT after pregnancy and when there was a problem with my drugs it was seen as an urgent thing to get sorted. So if you have somebody that you check in with for your INR it would be worth contacting them urgently too. Sorry as I’m sure all you’re feeling like doing is having a pain killer and curling up to have a good sleep.

Fingers crossed that if there’s a different shift on duty in a&e that they will treat you properly.

And please start every sentence with I’m immunosuppressed and I think I’ve got sepsis again.

FermatsTheorem · 09/07/2019 09:41

Let us know how you're getting on this morning, OP. I hope you're okay and can access the medical care you need.

Schuyler · 09/07/2019 09:53

Oh you poor thing. Flowers can you go to a different hospital? I am immunosuppressed and I’ve been admitted for infections not as bad as yours.
I don’t understand why they aren’t worried about you! Please take care and go back as many times as required to keep yourself safe and well.

Whoopstheregomyinsides · 09/07/2019 09:59

Tel them your concern when you show up for the MRI. I really hope you’re seen again. Looks awful

Sneezeandooops · 09/07/2019 10:01

Any word op hope you back in and they are taking care of you xFlowers

MrsMozartMkII · 09/07/2019 10:02

Popping in to see how you're doing OP. Appreciate you're dealing with all this in RL whilst feeling shit, just hope someone is looking properly into it and fixing it.

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 09/07/2019 10:05

Poor thing.

How are you doing this morning?

clairethewitch70 · 09/07/2019 10:07

She is in Wales. We have different rules here. She can't just choose to go to another hospital like you can in England.
OP. Another a&e doctor has said you need IV. I would go back after shift change which I think is about 7 am, but I think people on here could advise you better on the times. The treatment you have had from the hospital is really worrying. Maybe when you feel better complain to your local AM.

LakieLady · 09/07/2019 10:13

If you see the infection tracking up a limb you have to act ASAP.

My late mother was a nurse before she had me. The only time I ever saw her looking anxious about an injury or illness was when I had a red streak going up my arm from a grazed hand. She actually called a taxi to take me to the doctor, a huge shift from her normal "bit of Savlon and a plaster" response to any wound.

Isatis · 09/07/2019 10:15

Me:

My mother has been receiving superb care from the NHS over the last three months which would have bankrupted her in somewhere like the UK.

Sorry, meant US.

IncrediblySadToo · 09/07/2019 10:19

I hope you got someone to listen when you went in this morning g, don’t let them fob you off, they’re very good at that