Do's and dont's..

Pyoderma is often associated with Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which is generally seperated between the severe type, Crohn's and not as severe, ulcerative colitis. Because of this I'm having a colonoscopy next week.

The picture is of a list of all the things i can consume and the things i can't the day prior to examination day. I had a laugh because the secretary took a few minutes underlining everything and adding notes. I guess she thought I looked like a retard or something.

I also have to drink some type of mixture the day prior in an effort to clean the colon as much as possible. He apologized for having me drink this stuff because its supposed taste awful.

Uh, what the heck is that..!?

I noticed a boil or 'infected hair' type lesion on my left leg. I slapped some Neosporin on it and went out the door. It was unusually painful for such a small bump, smaller than a dime. About a week later nothing was healing. It was getting larger, about the size of the ring on a can of soda. It had a raised ring around a lowered center. The center of my 'boil' was a dull white. It looked like a miniature cream pie. It didn't hurt at all but it looked gross and strange.

I went to a dermatologist and had come to the understanding that this thing was more than a garden variety boil. When I went to see the doctor he asked me a bunch of questions. What do I do for work? Do I handle hazardous chemicals? Who goes to a physician for an infected hair?

In my examination he made me undress and checked my entire body for other sores which I didn't have and also measured my leg sore. He then drew a line, using a magic marker, around my entire wound adding less than an inch of border. He said If over the weekend this thing grows enough to cross any of this marker call me on my cell phone. I was told to come into the office on monday and he was going to do a biopsy of my sore. Ok, sounds fine to me. It was this first consultation that I heard the name Pyoderma Gangrenosum.