calyx156

some sort of healing crisis with my feet. I have a diabetic ulcer between my first and second toe on my right foot, my first ever. I've been to the ER in re: this condition Sunday night, and am on Levoquin, which is kicking my butt. My feet are both swollen, very red, EXTREMELY painful, so painful, in fact, that I can barely walk and am forming blisters from wearing shoes that half a year ago were completely, perfectly broken in and comfortable. The very bones of my feet ache desperately and are making it almost impossible to walk on them. I don't know if it's cellulitis or osteomyelitis. I know it's a condition caused by advanced neuropathy in my feet. I have the chills. No yeast infection yet b/c of the antibiotic (thank the Goddess). I know I have to go back to the doctors or the ER. I have no medical insurance yet, but I'm applying for Medicaid, b/c I just simply need it. I am considering the insulin pump. I eat very, very well, usually get enough rest, am trained as a vegetarian/macrobiotic chef, massage therapist, have certification as both a Master Herbalist and a 1600hr cert in homeopathy, but I am just struggling with pain, with trying to have a life in spite of what are now becoming more and more severe sequelae of the disease, am scared for my eyes, kidneys, eventually heart, terrified about what happens if my feet hurt too much to even walk on them. Please send words of advice, of education, of love and care. And just so you have some idea of my pain tolerance, in 1988, I gave birth to my 8lb 6oz son, a process which took 4 days, using no drugs. Sorry if I sound complainy. I'm scared and in pain and just very, very worried, b/c I'm doing everything the ER doc told me to do, and I'm not getting better, I'm getting worse.