Re: DR battelers Unite. Advice needed.

[Guest guest]

Sue K.,

If you have osteomyleitis you need to be on antibiotics! Usually for bone

infections these are IV, but ask one of the pother Nurses. To fuse the bone

I believe you would probably need to wait until the infection is cleared up.

These are only suggestions. Please let us know how it goes. Best of luck!

Sincerely, S.

DR battelers Unite. Advice needed.

> Hey guys,

>

> I thought I would ask your adice on something. I think I know what I am

going

> to do but I'd like opinions from other experienced DR battlers. I saw the

> foot and ankle specialist at UNC yesterday. He said after looking at my

films I

> probably do have osteomyeletis as well as the non union of the subtalar

joint.

> I also have a darn broken pin floating round because I can feel it when

the

> swelling goes down then it hits something else and it swells up again. The

DR

> said he is only in the OR twice a month and since we will be leaving the

area

> in June he won't treat me. he said all I have to worry about is mild

> discomfort. I was up all night crying in pain last night. I have pain deep

in my calf

> behind my knee (Where I also prior had the mycobacterial infection 15

years ago,

> as well as in the ankle) and pain up to groin. We are talking pain that

> morphine and percocet doesn't help. I am also hurting so much I have pain

from the

> air boot the have me in. My husband and I are thinking if this continues

> through the night just to take my scans and go to the ER at Duke. DO you

think they

> would do anything different? In the NE if I had a minor abcess I was put

in

> the hospital and it was taken care of immediately and keep getting put off

for

> later appointments. Any ideas on how to get help if we do go to Duke? We

tend

> to go at odd hours like 5AM before it gets really busy and I am usually up

all

> night in pain any way. I am also having pain in my spleen. I Know the pain

> from when I had the mycobacerterium fortuitum in my leg before. Thank you

DR

> battlers who unite in the cause of cessasation of pain!

>

> Sue K

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Yep, I have my current CTscan that shows everything. I'm taking that with me.

I'let you al know what happens.

Sue