Driving somewhere yesterday morning I itched the top of my thigh through my jeans and it was really sore but, what with concentrating on the road through the rain, running late due to roadworks, worrying about the scan I was going to have etc, I forgot all about it.
Got home and changed clothes into something comfortable, not remembering about the sore area (god knows why, I’m not usually so absentminded!!) so didn’t bother looking at it. In fact, I completely forgot about it until later in the evening when, once again, I went to itch the same area and found it was sore still - checked my leg and found a red area with an open centre plus what looked like the skin from a blister that had burst (first picture - excuse the clean tea towel, I put it there as I couldn’t get a photo without it looking like my bum because it’s where my thigh curves round to sit against the other one). I put a dry dressing over it and went off to bed.
This morning it’s still really sore and has bled a bit onto the dressing so I took it off to see what it’s like. It’s very sore, there was a small bit of what looked like green pus on the dressing where the hole is on my leg and this is what my leg looks like; it bled a bit after I took the dressing off too. Have put another dressing on it today as it’s really sore round the broken skin, there is a small black dot in the middle which I think is a spot of blood.
Shpuld I just keep it covered in the hope it clears up or should I consider the local MIU if it doesn’t improve?