word of warning - importance of wound care
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word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby jules21 » Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:38 am
2 weeks later and i start coming down with flu-like symptoms, then fever. i thought i'd overdone it with the training, but then i noticed the ankle was red and swollen. strange, as it took so long to get infected. am now on a course of antibiotics.
i think i'll be more careful from now on. the thing is, fever has a way of distracting you and i had put the ankle injury out of my mind until it became very painful. won't make that mistake again.
the infected ankle caused the fever.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby petie » Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:55 am
I came off my mtb early in the year and took a chunk out of my leg. Just cleaned it, dressed it and let it do its thing. Looked at it properly a week later and it was slightly infected. Onto antibiotics then dressing it. 43 days later and it had healed over. Still contracting and strengthening and will be for months and months. I have a bunch of photos I've been meaning to make a collage out of a bunch of photos I took over the course.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby petie » Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:26 am
Just be aware your performance will be decreased. And wound healing depends on whole body health. Optimal nutrition, good sleep and minimal stress. Racing will probably put healing back a little, but if you want to ride just do it. The one thing with this weather is your ankle will probably get cold. Temperature of the wound is very, very important and healing stops with only a couple of degree drop and doesn't start again till it reaches body temperature. Just try to keep it as warm a you can!
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby foo on patrol » Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:16 pm
I stopped taking them so I could race the next day and it was a little better but then I had a major fall after the finish line and was put out of action for a month. The fall wasn't my fault but it compounded things even more with the recovery.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby eeksll » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:11 pm
not bike related, scratch on the leg. Infection caused fever, making me forget the scratch. Ended up on IV antibiotics and in the end emergency surgery.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby twizzle » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:13 pm
It's only a race.jules21 wrote:Foo, this is killling me as i did a lot of hard training for this weekend's race!
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby trailgumby » Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:02 pm
Below the neck infection = really unwise to ride/race/train.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:58 pm
Get an expert to look the wound and the rest of you over then tell them what you have planned for the weekend. If they laugh, it's time to think of the next event.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby gabrielle260 » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:28 am
+1 to every word. Don't risk your long term health without getting professional advice.Mulger bill wrote:You've never struck me as silly before Jules.
Get an expert to look the wound and the rest of you over then tell them what you have planned for the weekend. If they laugh, it's time to think of the next event.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby matagi » Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:15 am
Clearly a case of failing to heed one's own advice.
By all means, go and ride on it and just hope you don't aggravate things to the extent that you require a prolonged hospital stay on even nastier intravenous antibiotics or worst case, surgical intervention.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby jules21 » Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:52 pm
i have been enjoying daily visits from the doctor and discussed my options fullly. the doc will never advocate racing, but said it was only likely to put the healing back a bit. it's actually much more benign now, the swelling is down heaps from when the whole foot/lower leg was blown up like a balloon. a cycling nurse i spoke to quietly suggested she would race on it.
i'll see how it goes - no one has suggested it's a high risk matter - and i have asked. but i won't race if it hasn't obviously settled right down.
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby Boognoss » Thu Apr 25, 2013 3:25 pm
I've just finished a round of antibiotics due to a minor skin infection from non-cycling causes and I felt terrible before the drugs fixed it. Yours looks way worse.
Hope you heal soon!
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Re: word of warning - importance of wound care
Postby Boognoss » Thu Apr 25, 2013 3:38 pm
Wow if yours was mild, mine was almost non-existent!jules21 wrote:thanks Boogs. i'm assured mine was a pretty mild case! didn't look pretty though, did it?
I suggest you don't race btw .
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