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No culture done. He glimpsed at the area, which I did not hold up to the light. The main area is red and there's a wide pink area surrounding. It's a very light pink, though, and not puffy. (last year I had an abscess which got to be a golfball in size and my whole upper arm became pink and puffy. What I have now is nothing by comparison.)
Cephalexin is the drug given. 4 a day for 10 days.
The pain is like a stabbing pain which felt it came from deep within the arm. I tried using a heat compress, but that only made the pain worse. Unbearably worse. (the Dr mentioned using a heat compress, but I told him the heat made it hurt.)
There was no bump originally (though touching the red area was tender), though a pea-sized bump has now formed. I did try lancing it (which was oddly not painful), but only blood came out. Maybe I didn't poke deep enough? Touching the bump hurts, but isn't the stabbing pain I mentioned earlier. This pain seems to be more at the surface than deep within the arm.
Strange, new development: Earlier if I squeezed my arm there was pain - just as I had mentioned two paragraphs ago. I just squeezed my arm and there is no pain. Maybe I was wrong in what I originally felt or I felt the pain incorrectly... that's probably it, though I'd swear the pain was worse 3 days ago because it interfered with my ability to sleep that night. But then again, the expanding pink area didn't exist at the time either... I dunno. Doing the antibiotic is probably a good thing regardless, this bout of eczema which started the whole situation was pretty bad and I've had numerous small abscesses develop, which I was able to drain on my own - and subsequently healed on their own...
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