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Osteomyelitis


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Yes, #3 in particular looks like a pressure ulcer that's been surgically debrided. Adding, of course, that pressure ulcers are a terrific way to introduce OM. 

Long story short, don't be diabetic :/

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Bad to the bone... and more.

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Most of these are actually depictions of gangrenous necrosis. Could be caused by osteomyelitis, but only with bacterial invasion into contiguous tissue.

Fortunately, this sort of tissue death is not enormously common in OM alone, more common if there's some co-morbidity such as peripheral vascular disease or diabetic neuropathy. 

I just realised that the odds of anyone being interested in my rant is low. Eh, have it anyway :P

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Its so hole-y~ °∆°

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An internet friend of mine has this. I of course image googled it and thought it could be a nice change from the spam images we had tonight. His is not as severe as most pictures but severe enough. Enjoy!

 

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Look like pressure ulcers in some of those, infected.

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Hell yea. He's totally untrainable too. Or he has a health care fetish because he likes when people take care of him. :o

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Quite the mess, diabetes leaves the system more prone to infection than otherwise. You'd think the other wounds would have been treated at stage 2 as opposed to waiting around for stage 4 development.

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For him it started with his foot bones collapsing from diabetes injury (Charcot foot). He was misdiagnosed with pinched nerve and foot drop and continued to walk on his broken foot until he crushed it further and further. Then bones in the wrong places started poking at his skin, creating holes letting bacteria in infecting the bone. The infection then spread both from the outside and inside of the foot. His foot is also having parts with necrosis so I don't think the pics are all incorrect compared to his deal. I assume they will just cut it off eventually, after spending a million dollars on other treatment that is wasted on him, since he doesn't take care of himself.

I'm always interested in medical shit.

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They were treated but never healed. I think part was abrasion and part was that he's unable to heal with constant high sugar levels plus no real nutrition (lives on grains, pure sugars and bacon, NO veg, NO fruit, no vitamin pills, not even taters).

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