• 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Nah, it was really quite serious actually, the area around the bite started yellowing under my skin, the whole area got swollen and the pain was numbing. I was prescribed 7 days of anti-biotics but I probably should have had it extended for a few days as the pain hadn’t gone away and the skin was still yellow. Its all good now, fortunately

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          24 hours ago

          No, I knew then later that I had an infection. That appeared maybe 3 hours after the bite. What I tried to say initially was that my immediate reaction to the bite wasn’t disinfection, instead I put on a tourniquet and applied pressure on the dirty bleeding wound