Jeez! Forgot to talk about another thing... going through a health scare.
After completing a round of keflex (which I've taken most of my life), I noticed 3 red bumps on the back of my leg one day. Didn't think much of them until they grew a bit bigger and became like blisters. Put some aloe on them and the next day I had more... then the next day they were on my other leg, on the back side. And they were starting to spread out and were itching!
On Sunday I got freaked out enough to go to the ER, because I looked down and saw that part of my leg was dark red on the skin. The doctor immediately said something about doing some blood work and checking my platelets. Oh, did I ever get scared. They took some vials of blood and after a couple of hours, the doctor comes back to talk to me and says my platelets were good, and that what I had was skin vasculitis, and explained what that was. He felt it could have been induced by the keflex, but they are not sure. I guess it is hard to know exactly the trigger for it. But he said he felt it was contained to my small blood vessels and skin. Sent me home with an antihistamine.
As days go by these things have not spread, but they are going through a scary progression from being small to medium, then scabbing up and looking weird. They are supposed to go away.... within weeks so I'm hoping they do and that it stays contained to the blood vessels and skin!
