Within a foot of a hospital!

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I just got back from my 2nd visit to the podiatrist. I went on Monday after my foot was swelling, itching and hurting last Thursday.

It was when I went camping back on Labor Day weekend that this all started, apparently. At night, the grounds are of course wet, and by the end of the night your feet are usually saturated, or at least damp. I've been going for 13 years now, 11 years to the same place on Labor Day weekend; I never had this happen before.

The 2nd night of camping my foot was itching between two toes and the skin was peeling. I didn't think anything of it, my feet were wet, so I guess this could happen. Didn't know why it was just between two toes, I thought maybe I got a mosquito bite or something, I don't know.

When I got home from the camping trip I started putting Caldesene powder on it, went camping the following weekend, and just dealt with it. It seemed to be getting better, it wasn't itching as much and it looked like it was healing; whatever it was.

When I went to my PCP after my 2nd camping trip I had asked him for a referral to a podiatrist; he didn't ask to see it, I guess he took my word for it. But I didn't make an appointment, it was getting better every day so I let it 'heal' on its own.

Well, last Thursday it started itching and I just gave into it; not only the two it was between originally, but the next one over to my pinky toe. On Friday I had a blister there and my foot was swollen. So I called an made an appointment with the podiatrist, and went to see him this Monday.

He gave me Levaquin 500 MG (1 per day, 7 pills) and a script for Loprox lotion. I got the Levaquin and took it Monday; the pharmacy didn't have Loprox, it didn't come in til Tuesday.

So today, 2 days of Levaquin and 3 (morning/night) applications of Loprox, and the podiatrist says it's looking a lot better. He was VERY impressed, he said he didn't think it would look THIS GOOD, but we're not out of it yet.

He told me that when he saw me on Monday, he thought TODAY he was going to be Checking ME INTO a hospital! He thought I was 48 hours away from "going where the food isn't good". He said the Levaquin, putting gauze between the toes, and the few applications of Loprox were working a lot faster than he expected or had seen.

I also asked him what he knew about being able to curl toes, and if maybe SBO may have something to do with my inability. He figured that that was the case. So I told him I started LDN 4/03 and by June I saw I was able to suddenly curl them, and I showed him.

He asked for more information about LDN and I gave him a brief description. He then said he THINKS that the LDN MUST HAVE something to do with the change in just 2 days, once I added the Levaquin and Loprox, plus keeping the gauze.

I'm telling you, he was VERY impressed. He was NOT expecting to see what he saw today.

He told me I 'could' go back to work, but suggested taking the rest of the week off my feet. I think I'll do that; I didn't realize just how serious this could have been! wow! Maybe the LDN helped keep it from getting THAT serious, or maybe it's why it took 7 weeks to run this course, instead of less.

Nothing scientific, nothing provable, but another reasonably short lived event that I think LDN helped battle.