{"id":128,"date":"2018-06-11T23:04:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2018-06-21T21:47:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:47:01","slug":"diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/?page_id=128","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

My ankle first started hurting on 8th February 2012, I have no idea what happened, I was sitting in a meeting room at work at the time and thought ‘#%?$ me, my ankle hurts’. Anyhow I continued on for that week struggling to walk on it, until I decided enough was enough, go and see a doctor.<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to A&E was seen by a registrar, and he diagnosed it as <\/span>cellulitis<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was Friday afternoon, and he wanted to admit me to hospital there and then for IV antibiotics. I couldn’t go into hospital as my wife was away that weekend and I was looking after my 4 year old son.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was sent away from A&E with a prescription for 2g <\/span>Flucloxacillin<\/a> QDS (4 times a day). I took the prescription to my regular pharmacist who almost fell off her chair, she had never seen a prescription for so much oral antibiotic. She phoned the hospital to check it wasn’t a mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n

The drugs were dispensed and at one stage I was taking 54 tablets a day. <\/span><\/p>\n

This was a combination of antibiotics, painkillers and my regular tablets. My stomach and bowels had been turned inside out at this stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

I visited my podiatrist and she looked at <\/span>my foot \"\"<\/a>
\nand said ‘I think that is a <\/span>Charcot foot<\/a>, although it is very uncommon in people who are not diabetic’. <\/span><\/p>\n

She arranged a test for diabetes which came back negative, and wrote a letter to my GP and my regular orthopaedic surgeon with her concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Things moved on quite quickly then and after several appointments, X-rays etc, I was diagnosed with a Charcot joint. The antibiotics which I had been taking for a couple of weeks were dropped, however I still had stomach and bowel problems for another three weeks, I went for three days without eating, and then went on eating natural yoghurt only, eventually my stomach settled. All this from a misdiagnosis of cellulitis and unnecessary antibiotics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Big thanks went to my podiatrist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My ankle first started hurting on 8th February 2012, I have no idea what happened, I was sitting in a meeting room at work at the time and thought ‘#%?$ me, my ankle hurts’. Anyhow I continued on for that week struggling to walk on it, until I decided enough was enough, go and see … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Diagnosis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions\/536"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lp21.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}