About 5 years ago I had a spider bite on
my right foot that set off a heck of an
infection in that foot. The doc
prescribed Cephalexin followed by Cipro,
and it seemed to knock out the infection
in about a week although my foot never
really went back to how it was before, in
other words – it’s seemingly been
prone to swell easier since.
A week ago, I received another inspect
bite (pretty sure it was a spider bite
too) that started in my upper thigh (kink
or crease between torso and leg) that
within a couple of hours had my
temperature raising and a very sore area
to the touch or to walk with/on that leg.
Within days a redness and associated
soreness seemed to be headed down to my
foot making my foot look about like it
did, at it’s worst 5 years ago. This
time, I’m taking 3 750mg of
Sulfamethoxazone a day. I’m walking
better and my upper leg seems fine but my
shin, ankle and foot are swollen, red,
etc. When I sleep, I have my leg and foot
up on the back of a couch (sleeping on the
couch for now to better enable this) and
the next morning when I go to get up,
blood rushes back into that foot and
it’s extremely painful to put any
pressure on for about 5 minutes. During
that initial wake up period though, much
of the swelling has gone away in my ankle
and foot area.
I’m a little worried about my foot and
hoped that I might be able to gain some
insight here. TIA
