Hi. My name is buck and I have tinea corporis. I have large lesions on my lower stomach area on both sides of my navel.
The infection has already spread all over my stomach, sides, lower back, chest, around my neck, both arms, legs, and are now begining to form on my hands, face (i'm pretty sure), and feet. I didn't notice it before but i've had lesions around my jock area and it's already killed off a lot of hair around it! It's driving me crazy. I saw my doctor about a three weeks ago and told him to give me the best thing he's got (desperate and didn't care about the price) he gave me a prescription called grifulvin v micr 500 mg (15 pills). So I took one pill per day for 15 days and didn't see any improvements. I went back to the clinic but was unable to see the doctor becasue he had too many patients to take care of. I saw a nurse instead. I told her that I took all 15 pills and didn't see any improvements. I figured I hadn't taken enough and wanted a refill. She told me that was the maximum dosage and that the antibiotics should be in my system working to get rid of it. It's been 3 days since and i'm still suffering and have not seen any improvements. I'm pretty sure it's going to show up on my face or scalp anytime now. That's what i'm afraid of. My doctor went on vacation and won't be back until january 18th 2005 so i'm posting on this forum in hopes of finding some answers to these questions:

is this medicine grifulvin really an antibiotic?

How long will it be in my system working?

How long will it take before I see resutls?

Yesterday I noticed very small black dots appearing on my arms, hands, legs, etc. Does anybody know what this is and is it related
to tinea corporis?