Wtf is wrong with me.. photo included TMI

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Woke up yesterday to a nawing pain where my knickers sit on my right leg. Thought oh I'm just getting fat and need bigger knickers.

Today I woke up feeling like shit. I can barely move my leg. It's agongy I cannot walk to see this monsteristy. There is a larged raised redness around it. I cannot get to the GP i have a meeting in the morning I cannot miss.
I feel really shit, keep getting cold as well. I thought infected hair folicie but it looks worse. Would show the large red patch around it but I'm embarrassed enough showing this. Please help 😭

I'm another one who has to sit on her hands not to do that.

Or better still she could stay in hospital and focus on her health and getting well. I know just how long people wait for an autism assessment but OP needs to be in hospital and stay there unless told otherwise by the doctor. Time for dad to step up and go in her place.

Glad you got treated, hope you make your sons meeting, explain to the ward staff they may let you leave to go to it, especially if it’s in the same place

That comment aged well....

Maybe read the updates before you post next time so you look less of a twit, eh?

If it was just a bit sore and looked like that I'd give it a good squeeze, but coupled with the pain, chills, and redness spreading then that's a 🚩 I'm glad you sought help. Cellulitis is no easy breeze!

I’m so sorry how are you? Can your ex take son to autism assessment?

Poor you op, I hope it clears up quickly, you should feel a lot less rough once the antibiotics start working.

@deadembarrased how are you, feeling any better?

Oh OP, I'm so glad you have been treated. I developed cellulitis almost 40 years ago. I stood up quickly when a member of staff called me to see to a delivery. My desk was beer to an old sash window, to look out and I stumbled, put my hand through the glass. I was told to drive myself to the hospital to get it seen to. I foolishly did and was taped up. Next day I was in agony and my hand and arm were incredibly swollen, looked like I'd got a tourniquet on my arm. Out of hours doctor told me to get to A & E pronto. I was on IV antibiotics and in hospital for 5 nights. Thankfully it healed and never came back.

The children's father can't do this.

The parental interview component of an autism assessment is to get the parent's eye view of the child's behaviour. This relies on the parent being interviewed being a substantiative caregiver to the child. It's clear from OP's description that Prince Charmless isn't a substantiative caregiver.

@oatmilkthesecond this also answers your suggestion.

@deadembarrased I'm so glad you went to the Dr.
I hope you have a good night and the drugs work.
I was in hospital for a week with cellulitis, two different iv antibiotics. I was EXHAUSTED when I came out too.
So be prepared for a recovery time.

I had a similar experience with cellulitis. I woke up in the night shivering and with a bright red leg, DH rang an ambulance and I was admitted for IV antibiotics. The earlier you get treatment the better.

Sorry to miss the important information that you're getting treatment, well done, OP. I hope the antibiotics kick in quickly and you feel loads better soon.

Forget the meeting, your health right now is far more important! Get a taxi and go to A&E or at least speak to someone on 111.

Your health is much more important than the meeting. Sepsis can become dangerous very quickly so please seek help asap.

You absolutely cannot stop the iv in the 1st 24 hrs with cellulitis like this.

DH got cellulitis and now has the joy of getting it really easily. The 1st time he was in hospital for 3 days, and then came home with an IV and was visited 3 times a day by a doctor or nurse (not in the UK, obviously).

We got so much information that time, I wish everyone knew.

Amongst it all was the necessity to be really really accurate with charting/taking the antibiotics if another time he was given tablets. The drop in coverage by even an hour or 2 can give the bug a chance to overrun the medicine which would be even worse.

He's had it three times since, once iv, twice tablets.

I understand the fear of missing the appt, but as a patent in similar circs, and currently flat on her back for 5 weeks, it is so important we look after our selves 1st.

You can get a letter from the hospital or send the interview people a redacted version of your discharge summary to show you were in hospital. And then, if they don't find you and new time soon, make some noise.

This is your opportunity to sit still for a couple of days, try and lean into it. You body is going to be using a LOT of energy to heal. Sleep or snooze as much as you can. See it as the enforced break it is.

Thank god you did the right thing

Seriously get over yourself. You have no idea of my history and if I’m a medic or not. I haven’t pretended anything. People come on here and ask opinions and I gave mine. This isn’t a&e and it isn’t the place to get a medical diagnosis. Just because you don’t agree with my opinion doesn’t give you the right to harp on about me like I’m some kind of monster. If you don’t like other people giving opinion then move on.

Ha! People come on here and ask opinions. I gave mine. I don’t quite see what I have to be embarrassed about.

Yes because how insane to post about a medical emergency on mumsnet rather than actually go and get medical advice from a & e. Alls well that ends well.

@Confessionsofa40yrold you didn't tell OP to stop posting and go to a+e, remember? You told her to make a GP appointment if things didn't improve in a couple of days.

I had something very similar near my groin. You need antibiotics asap and it might need draining. Call 111 and they'll arrange for you to be seen in minor injuries unit.

Well you should be ashamed of pretending to a medical qualification you clearly don't have and of giving dangerously incorrect medical advice that, if followed, could have killed the OP.

HTH

This is a situation where the opinions of randoms are dangerous. You don’t seem to care about that. Time for you to wind your neck in.

You can do this. We let people come back for IVABS , you can sit in a chair in a day unit. We do it regularly it saves a bed, and OP has an important meeting. We also have a home iV service.