Hospital vs urgent care

[Flacker]

So here is the deal, thought I had broke my toe so went into urgent care to get a X-ray. Get the X-ray back no break just a bad sprain. However there appears to be a foreign object by my toe and the docter really wanted to slice my foot open. Fearing the cost of the bill and not wanting my foot a sliced open I declined. Now sitting at work in pain it’s clean I need what ever is stuck in there to be removed. Should I A.) save money and go back to the sketchy docter that wanted to slice me open.

B.) bite the bullet and go to a real hospital and have it done not sketchy.

 

[theabortionator]

Obligatory fuck the American healthcare system post. Hope the toe heals up man!

 

[Casey]

I’d probably do some exploratory digging with the sharpest knife I have to see if I could get it myself. If you lean over from a sitting position you can compress your quad muscle enough to get your foot to fall asleep it won’t hurt as bad?

 

[elcheapo]

I went to urgent care once and they said to go to the er so I never paid their friggin bill, haha, as for the ufo in your toe? Just soak in alcohol lots of alcohol then triple antibiotic and a bandaid. Once it's healed it'll be fine just a souvenir fir life,

 

[DirtYStylE]

In the middle of the pandemic and still can’t get some decent healthcare. Your literally thinking about this because it’s so expensive smh

But I’m really curious where your getting this sketchy advice if it’s not a hospital or a doctor

 

[WoFIowz]

That sounds like an urgent care problem if the doc is up to doing it. No sense dropping $1-2k on an ED visit. With your acuity level (not urgent at all, probably will be rated 5/5 for last to be seen), and with covid surged EDs, you're probably looking at easily 4-6hr waits if ur in a city. That's being conservative too.

 

[Flacker]

Update: girlfriend squeezed abunch of grey pus out of it after soaking it in vinegar. The UFO in my foot is a piece of Wana from when I was in Hawaii visiting my girlfriends family.

 

[SendyMcSendyface]

I'm not a doc, but [tag=218488]@Mingg[/tag] might have some recommendations for what you should do about that...looks fucking nasty, fuck the US healthcare system.

 

[WoFIowz]

I'm not a doc, but [tag=218488]@Mingg[/tag] might have some recommendations for what you should do about that...looks fucking nasty, fuck the US healthcare system.

It's infected. Op go to a fucking doctor and stop asking dumb questions

 

[elcheapo]

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Update: girlfriend squeezed abunch of grey pus out of it after soaking it in vinegar. The UFO in my foot is a piece of Wana from when I was in Hawaii visiting my girlfriends family.

Thanks for not posting a video

 

[WoFIowz]

Op also this is a valuable lesson of listen to your doctor. Now that you waited and refused treatment you're going to incur an extra bill by having to go back. Don't wait til it gets worse. If they can see where it's at easily they'll probably just cut it open, clean the abscess out, remove the foreign object and stitch you up +/- antibiotics.

 

[Flacker]

Op also this is a valuable lesson of listen to your doctor. Now that you waited and refused treatment you're going to incur an extra bill by having to go back. Don't wait til it gets worse. If they can see where it's at easily they'll probably just cut it open, clean the abscess out, remove the foreign object and stitch you up +/- antibiotics.

I never didn’t listen to them, more just feared the financial outcome, All I could afford was an X-ray and now I’m still flat broke till next paycheck. I woulda loved to get it taken out but unfortunately my shitty health insurance says otherwise.

 

[profa_212]

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Update: girlfriend squeezed abunch of grey pus out of it after soaking it in vinegar. The UFO in my foot is a piece of Wana from when I was in Hawaii visiting my girlfriends family.

Bruh go to the doc like now. That's infected. Last thing you need is to find out it's mrsa and youre dead in a day. Don't fuck with infections.

 

[SuspiciousFish]

To the OP- get some Manuka Honey like this kind:

(MGO 263 is the best concentration for the money IMO)

Anyway, slather it on the cut and put a band aid over it. Do this for a week and it will kill the infection.

To those that doubt me- my grandpa had a MRSA infection in his head that was literally about to eat his brain. The hospital had him on all sorts of experimental antibiotics and finally told him he was going to die. My wife and I finally convinced the hospital to put the manuka honey on the bandage and mailed them a container. We got a call 3 days later saying the infection was gone and the hospital was in shock. The antibiotics that didnt work cost $200 a pill too and killed all his gut bacteria so he didnt eat for weeks.

 

[WoFIowz]

I never didn’t listen to them, more just feared the financial outcome, All I could afford was an X-ray and now I’m still flat broke till next paycheck. I woulda loved to get it taken out but unfortunately my shitty health insurance says otherwise.

The longer you wait, the more expensive it will become. Co-pays are after the fact and you often don't receive the bill til weeks or months later. If this place is asking for immediate payment, go elsewhere cuz that's garbo.

What is in your foot?

 

[Flacker]

The longer you wait, the more expensive it will become. Co-pays are after the fact and you often don't receive the bill til weeks or months later. If this place is asking for immediate payment, go elsewhere cuz that's garbo.

What is in your foot?

Pretty sure this is what’s in there hence soaking my foot in vinegar, dissolves the spine of the sea urchant and happens to be anti fungal which is always good. Going to the doctor after work got an advance on my paycheck, if the manager goes down whole damn shop does, so they don’t want that.

 

[SuspiciousFish]

The longer you wait, the more expensive it will become. Co-pays are after the fact and you often don't receive the bill til weeks or months later. If this place is asking for immediate payment, go elsewhere cuz that's garbo.

What is in your foot?

Maybe the offered him a cash deal? Its a pain in the ass to deal with insurance billing as an Urgent Care and sometimes they give you a discount for paying cash instead of going through your coverage.

 

[WoFIowz]

Pretty sure this is what’s in there hence soaking my foot in vinegar, dissolves the spine of the sea urchant and happens to be anti fungal which is always good. Going to the doctor after work got an advance on my paycheck, if the manager goes down whole damn shop does, so they don’t want that.

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[SendyMcSendyface]

To the OP- get some Manuka Honey like this kind:

(MGO 263 is the best concentration for the money IMO)

Anyway, slather it on the cut and put a band aid over it. Do this for a week and it will kill the infection.

To those that doubt me- my grandpa had a MRSA infection in his head that was literally about to eat his brain. The hospital had him on all sorts of experimental antibiotics and finally told him he was going to die. My wife and I finally convinced the hospital to put the manuka honey on the bandage and mailed them a container. We got a call 3 days later saying the infection was gone and the hospital was in shock. The antibiotics that didnt work cost $200 a pill too and killed all his gut bacteria so he didnt eat for weeks.

I was about to say that this sounds wack...but I literally just finished listening to a guest speaker in my bio lecture, (studies antibiotic resistant shit) who was using honey/beeswax to treat white-nose syndrome in bats. So give this a shot, but also go to a fuckin doctor OP

 

[profa_212]

I was about to say that this sounds wack...but I literally just finished listening to a guest speaker in my bio lecture, (studies antibiotic resistant shit) who was using honey/beeswax to treat white-nose syndrome in bats. So give this a shot, but also go to a fuckin doctor OP

Honey has been used for thousands of years in wound treatment. It really is crazy stuff. In most honeys the enzymes actually secrete hydrogen peroxide, which obviously kills things. But I don't think that manuka does. That one works based off of a low pH and the sugar content which hinders bacterial growth.

They even have "medical grade" honey. But it is really difficult to synthesize the proper antimicrobial properties in mass/to a standard. So it is not used that much.

Tldr honey is cool. But always see a doctor if you think you have an infection.

 

[elcheapo]

It's kinda on the verge of needing a professional but i'v been thru this many times and just drench a wad if napkin etc with rubbing alcohol and keep it on it for 10 minutes or so a couple times a day till it gets better, you got this

 

[SuspiciousFish]

I was about to say that this sounds wack...but I literally just finished listening to a guest speaker in my bio lecture, (studies antibiotic resistant shit) who was using honey/beeswax to treat white-nose syndrome in bats. So give this a shot, but also go to a fuckin doctor OP

Manuka Honey is actually getting a lot of traction in the mainstream medical field and hospitals now stock bandages with Manuka Honey in them already. It completely wipes out MRSA and attacks chronic biofilm infections that traditional antibiotics cant get to.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/manuka-honey-uses-benefits

But yeah to the OP- definitely go to the doctor. They Manuka Honey is for when you get home and need to change out your bandages.

 

[Flacker]

Final Update:

The first doctor was a fucken quack!! Long story short the doctor I saw today basically disagreed with everything first dude said. A.) toe is fractured slightly.

B.) highly recommends NOT cutting up my foot. It’s so deep and small it would cause far more damage to take out then just leaving it in.

C.) the UFO and my nasty infection are not even connected. The UFO is too far from the point of infection so it’s something that’s been in there a long time I’m just now seeing it.

Moral of the story kids your health is extremely important but do not let the medical system take advantage of you because your scared. Sometime weighing your options is much better. My doctor today seemed genuinely concerned about the advice I was first given, so thank you Dr Westcott for giving me antibiotics and sending me on my way.

 

[Mingg]

I'm not a doc, but [tag=218488]@Mingg[/tag] might have some recommendations for what you should do about that...looks fucking nasty, fuck the US healthcare system.

If you’re not comfortable with that urgent care, I’d try another one. It’s infected and may need to drained. They can do that at an urgent care assuming there isn’t more going on. They can prescribe antibiotics too for the infection.

Many urgent care docs rotate through urgent cares and ERs so they’ll be able to help you either way.

 

[SuspiciousFish]

As a side note:

ONLY GO TO THE ER IN AN ABSOLUTE EMERGENCY

If its not life threatening go to urgent care. I had to go to the ER a few years ago when I cut my finger when a fish tank shattered when I tried to pick it up and urgent care was closed. They gave me about 6 stiches but billed it as a higher level of risk and ended up charging me $4,000 for the facility alone with another physician bill on top of it. I fought it tooth and nail and finally negotiated it down a little in collections but it was total bullshit.