On legs, Hugos, and maybe other sundry stuff.

[blaisepascal]

Since last I posted about my leg, I've been to see the doctor. He basically checked out that the swelling and redness seem to have gone down, gave me some more context on the fluid pocket in my calf, added a potassium supplement to my prescription regimen, and told me to come back in a week, at which point he might renew the antibiotics if they

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[acelightning]

I'm more than a bit puzzled by the apparent attitude of your doctors. They don't know what the thing in the back of your knee actually is/was, but they don't seem to be particularly interested in finding that out. I would think they'd do everything in their power to figure it out, to determine how urgently it needed attention, and what kind(s) of attention. Instead, they're throwing industrial-strength antibiotics at it, sort of blindfolded. (A burst Baker's cyst isn't even an infection; NSAIDs and/or corticosteroids would be more to the point.)

IANAD, yadda yadda, but if I were in your position, I'd argue with them :-(

[blaisepascal]

The ER doctor/PA was looking at my leg in ways I couldn't (i can't look at the back of my leg) . When I turned face-down on the ER bed and exposed both my calves for comparison purposes, starsplattter exclaimed "Oh my god" at the apparently very visible and bad inflammation/infection process going on

[acelightning]

*sigh* That's why I included the usual disclaimer ("IANAD")...

[sheherazahde]

Not everything is known or even knowable. They have determined that it isn't cancer, and the list of things it could be don't require immediate action. Wait and see is the best course of action right now. If it gets worse they might have to take other actions. But it might just go away. A surprising number of things do.

I have a bunch of ganglion cysts on my finger. I find them annoying but unless they start hurting or interfering with my finger's movement my insurance won't pay to have them removed. A pocket of fluid where it shouldn't be is not a medical emergency.

[sheherazahde]

Thanks for the links.
I'm enjoying Philip Sandifer's defense of postmodernism.