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So that back pain that was so horrible and kept getting worse and worse until I could hardly stand it? Apparently caused by a bug bite. Bizarre but true.
I am on antibiotics now and already feeling better after just a day, but it still hurts pretty bad, sometimes feels like just this hot, throbbing lump on my lower back. There's a patch of red, swollen skin on my back a little bigger than my hand, warm to the touch, with a worse spot in the middle that must have been where I was bitten. I'm still using ice packs because they make it feel better, and taking ibuprofen on a regular basis, and STILL hurting a lot. But it's getting better.
Before I finally got into the clinic and got some help, it was so bad that I was literally shaking and crying at the worst times. My hands would tremble and I wouldn't be able think, and my head would spin and I'd feel like throwing up. Had a patch of that today, too, but I think it's getting better.
And this might have been found out a long time ago if I'd just had someone look at my back. Maybe we would have noticed that it looked like a bite. Instead I assumed it was lower back pain like I sometimes get, and then later when just the left side hurt I thought maybe a kidney infection. So yeah. Chalk that up to experience, I guess.
Anyway. I might get back to having a life sometime soon.
I am on antibiotics now and already feeling better after just a day, but it still hurts pretty bad, sometimes feels like just this hot, throbbing lump on my lower back. There's a patch of red, swollen skin on my back a little bigger than my hand, warm to the touch, with a worse spot in the middle that must have been where I was bitten. I'm still using ice packs because they make it feel better, and taking ibuprofen on a regular basis, and STILL hurting a lot. But it's getting better.
Before I finally got into the clinic and got some help, it was so bad that I was literally shaking and crying at the worst times. My hands would tremble and I wouldn't be able think, and my head would spin and I'd feel like throwing up. Had a patch of that today, too, but I think it's getting better.
And this might have been found out a long time ago if I'd just had someone look at my back. Maybe we would have noticed that it looked like a bite. Instead I assumed it was lower back pain like I sometimes get, and then later when just the left side hurt I thought maybe a kidney infection. So yeah. Chalk that up to experience, I guess.
Anyway. I might get back to having a life sometime soon.
