Podiatrist Visit; New Diagnosis!
Much has happened since my last post in April. Time flies even when I am not having fun! I have visited a podiatrist twice now. He told me I have athlete's foot (tinea pedis) in three toenails; the pinky-toes and the next-smallest toe on the right. He started my on a three-month dose of Lamasil oral and said to use both Lamasil (drug name terbinafine)and Nystatin topically. (I later discovered I need a prescription for the Nystatin topical, which he gave me at the second visit). After a month, the skin breakage was healed completely and the skin was tougher. What a relief! However, the redness-burning-swelling in the feet has not gone away. On my second visit to him, he thought the swelling may be caused by lupus and said he wanted to refer me to a neurologist for nerve-muscle tests and that I should start shopping for a rheumatologist. This was not what I wanted to hear. I had gone that route eighteen and twenty-two years ago, having all the tests one with negative results, an