Red spots...[London, UK]

dutifully went back to the NHS Walk-In Centre for check-up....nurse changed my dressing......the wounds looked pretty gruesome to me but she said they were "looking good". was not about to doubt the medical expert in the consultation room.....besides, was quite relieved to hear something positive...

so....as per instruction......to keep wounds dry.......no showers till sunday.....will have to change dressings on my own........again, big thanks to the british medical system and taxpayers! received some free swabs, dressings and sterile topical irrigation solution packs.....yaaaaarhhh.....

on a worrying note....

itchy red spots...some even look like boils....have appeared all over my body.......my abdomen....forearms.......face.......thighs....back of knees...........................

and what did the nurse have to say about this occurrence? 

i forgot to ask....eeeeheeh.....oh well....

couple of them behind my left knee....

and on my right forearm.....

and ears, they are itching....itching....itching....itching..........my body is not happy.....will have to go to a chinese doctor once i get to Toronto to visit my brother........not loving the antibiotics im taking.....the flucloxacillin........but no, im not saying that the pills are causing my skin to erupt like never before seen...........cos really, i had these spots on me once i got to england and before i started taking the heavy meds..........

friend whose place im staying at....wonders if im allergic to the air here in london...aahahaha......

pictures taken with Ricoh Caplio R4

Its not ringworm anymore...its a bleddy bacterial infecion!! [London, UK]

yeap....according to the doc at the Victoria NHS Walk-in Centre here in London...

I do not have ringworm...and it didn't look like eczema or dermatitis to him either...indeed, he suspected i have a bacterial infection...great....just great news really....

i was wondering about the two good-looking worms for the past couple of days though, with all that pus and whatnot...

learnt something new....when there is pus....they're called weeping wounds, that's what they are....

i have no idea if its the three times a day of Ringworm No More that has caused this remarkable transformation but i can safely say that ill be attempting to get my money back on these products from Forces of Nature...i mean....they didnt work after all...

well, it wasn't even ringworm you say? misdiagnosis no?

for more than five months now...i've not had any pus oozing without end from the wounds.....and during that time, three doctors confirmed that i was suffering from the fungal affliction...

so, somehow and someway.....the two ringworm wounds took on a new form......quite pleasant really......they were swelling......some mild stinging pain....all round discomfort in the self-wrapped and girlfriend-wrapped cotton gauze dressings.......

Major thanks to this funny bloke at Gees Chemist...yesterday it was.....when he referred me to the NHS Walk-in Centre...told me how they admit non-UK citizens......

Had called a private practice that was round the corner from where I was staying...near Pimlico station...cos im no UK citizen...the doctor had to treat me as a private patient...which would have meant £60!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yea...so....the doctor's secretary/nurse/administrative staff suggested the pharmacist....lovely people so far in London...practically every single person ive interacted with.....

i suppose.....thanks are due to the British taxpayers....was only charged a whopping £7.20 for all my troubles.......

Had antibiotics prescribed....the exact thing i was aiming to avoid by turning to traditional and alternative medicines........my gut and liver are not appreciative either but i figured.....perhaps it would be prudent to take action now and avoid gangrene developing on both my arm and leg......

spiffy dressing the nurse glommed onto my leg....

even fancier stuff here on my arm....was not allowed any showers though....have to keep wounds dry but im going in again tomorrow as instructed....hope things will be more favourable tomorrow.............

pictures taken with Ricoh Caplio R4

Greetings from The Ringwom Cure...[Istanbul, Turkey]

Hello all!

Have ringworm but don't really dig modern pharmaceutical products...

Normally turn to Traditional Chinese doctors in such dire times but currently not in a place where such luxuries are readily available.

Short - I've purchased a seemingly herbal organic Ringworm remedy from the interweb and will attempt to detail my hopeful progress here...

bought a couple of these products from the following company:

Forces of Nature

As you'll observe, this website is based in Europe but don't fret if you're in the Americas or Asia...they have sites for those two regions too...correct me if im wrong, but I think the Asia website (which I think is based in Taiwan) does not carry the Ringworm treatment products...

Onward...

Specifically, I bought the Ringworm Treatment - Ringworm no More and the Fungal Cleanse Medicated Soap

These are details of my semi-hefty purchase...I am still a college/university student after all...

Order Number: 100142

1 x .Fungal Cleanse Medicated Soap (RW) 100g (FCRWSOAP) = US$14.95
1 x BUNDLE: 2x11 Ringworm No More (RingNMBUNDLE) = US$39.50

Sub-Total: US$54.45
Shipping (Global Priority): US$9.95
Total: US$64.40

Have to hand computer over to girlfriend now, she has real work to hand in little more than 12 hours...later entries will provide gruesome (to some at least, I've become quite used to my two fungal friends...) photographic evidence of my ringworm and also er, well, there'll be more, there you go...

Written on 12 May, 2009.....5.20pm to 5.40pm.....Turkish Time....all times will refer to times where I am located at.......