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