Played cricket last night, in shorts... was devoured by midges unfortunately 🙁 Have woken up today and my right leg is all achey and quite warm to the touch (noticeably warmer than my left)... could it be midge related, or more likely some sort of strain?
death by midge bite will follow soon or take some anti histamine.
It'll be a bite from the bone-burrowing beetle.
Symptoms include expecting complete amateurs to give you an accurate diagnosis over the internet.
TTIUWOP
mtfu?
Ah, that'll be dick leg syndrome. It's where your leg turns into a penis. Under no circumstances should you rub where it is throbbing. It'll go off in your hand.
Trust me I'm a doctor
snowslave - are you my doctor?
Psyche, I hate to interrupt the hilarity but a good friend of mine was bitten a lot by midges and had symptoms very similar to yours. It then started to swell up. Luckily his wife is a nurse and she realised what it was and rushed him to hospital. He had picked up a nasty blood infection due to the number of midge bites and was lucky to catch it so early. He was in hospital for days on an antibiotic drip.
It is worth getting it checked out or at least monitoring the symptoms. I'm not a Dr (obviously)!
Let the hilarity recommence, sorry for the interruption!
My wife had this the other day - a little bite that she ignored but it started to become painful. She rang the docs and they asked her a few questions that resulted in her going in for an emergency appointment as it turned out it had become infected.
From what I understand, if the redness and swelling is circular around the bite it is just your body fighting the infection. If the redness starts to travel away in a line, it is a blood infection.
From what I understand, if the redness and swelling is circular around the bite it is just your body fighting the infection. If the redness starts to travel away in a line, it is a blood infection.
I went to the docs about a spider bite on my leg. The bite itself was a small dot surrounded by normal skin and with a 'halo' of very dark bruising around this, heading down the leg from the muscle (where the bite was). Basically the whole of the back of my leg from the knee downwards to the ankle was a scary colour and itched / throbbed like hell.
I went to the doc and got the MTFU treatment - apparently it was just a natural reaction - all that could be done was antihistamine. The doc said that the time to worry was if the bite itself went very dark and looked like a bruise - it's easy to confuse an allergic reaction to the venom with an infection that needs antibiotics.
I've pics but I won't inflict them on the board.
My wife was prescribed Fuxallotoftim or something like that - penicillin-based anti-biotics.
I can offer a the complete difinitive tratment plan for this as i am a Dr specialising in insect related infection. You can reverse the effects of this by drinking 1 pint of your own urine. I know, weird as it sounds the midge infection reacts whilst excreted by the kidneys resulting in the formation of a natural antibiotic in your urine. Please try this treatment process and report back promptly.
woffle pics please.
OK then... I guess I shall go see a doc if it continues... seem to have a bit of swelling now, so could well be an infection I guess! 🙁
update: now have a couple of nasty looking liquid filled blister like things on my leg, and it's swelling up and aching a lot... looks like I have an infection, or some sort of allergic reaction going on! Who would've thought midges could be so dangerous!? I'm moving back to the tropics where all you need to worry about is malaria and dengue fever!