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Follow your doctor's instructions. The worst thing you can do is be inconsistent with antibiotics. Either use them or don't, but don't half ass it or you get resistant bacteria. And you don't want to stay on antibiotics for eternity either.

Depending on your age, the healing process can take longer. I too would figure you're past the "throbbing" part of the recovery process but everyone is different. Just keep checking in with your doctor's office. If it gets reinfected when they take you off the anitbiotic, they'll put you back on it.

Then the answer is probably diet-related.

As much as I love spicy Shin Ramen Black, that stuff makes me gut twist like no other and leaves me constipated the next day.

Welcome to getting old

No loss, because Avast is fucking trash to begin with.

You would contain it by surrounding it with wall-to-wall low effort DF clones with no emergent gameplay. The sheer tedium and repetition of uninspired ideas would absorb the creative anarchy that is Bay12.

For a while.....

How are people so confident in themselves? Taking selfies and posting them like that? I never could.

Maybe that's why I don't have any social media.

One of the arts of confidence is not caring what other people think. It's a skill, with uncertain pay offs. When it works, you look confident. When it doesn't, you look delusional.

You continue to be very helpful. Thank you.

This thing got infected, but the good news is my GP prescribed me oral antibiotics and it seems to have cleared up.
I have no idea how that happened. I have been soaking it every day, using antibiotic cream, and I haven't worn shoes since the operation/procedure.
I mean I also keep it covered with a bandage too, so I don't get how it happened. At least it seems better now.
It does not throb anymore on antibiotics and Tylenol but it used to do that all the time.

Tomorrow is a follow up with the podiatrist. Hoping for good results and I mean it still has a scab on it and no more infection that I can see. So that's good.

As I said, not giving it time to air out daily can lead to an infection. Unsure how much of that you did. And there's levels of infection. I mean.....I basically took the entire surface of the last digit of my right middle finger in an accident. (Pinched in a fork lift.) That thing took months to heal and it looked SO incredibly fugly I would have thought it was infected. And yet it wasn't and I didn't take antibiotics. Feet are just gross, I guess, and nearest to everything that can introduce bacteria. Consider that your carpets are loaded with foreign particles. Anyways, glad to hear it's not super infected and that you got stuff for it.

Thank you. Yeah the swelling was just nuts whenever I wasn't on antibiotics. Weird thing was sometimes it helped to elevate it and sometimes it didn't. I mean it helped at first to elevate it but then if I kept it up there elevated for a while it started to hurt again. Then, weirdly, it just sorta started feeling better once I put it back down after elevating the foot for a long time. I'm not brilliant but I don't get that one.

That's just blood pressure at play. Elevated and most of the blood has run out of it? Contraction. Pulls on the wound. Pain. Not elevated? Loaded with blood due to gravity, it swells pushing out on the wound. Pain.

Semi-related, I'm over parrying mechanics. Feels like every game has them now, and when whole bosses are built off of parrying, it feels like it's missed the point of the mechanic. Parries are supposed to be high-risk, high-reward. Not "you must do this or you lose." I just watched some indie game showcase where parrying was a core mechanic. Like, you get a shield to parry with before you even get a permanent weapon, and parrying does damage to the enemy. It instantly killed my interest in the game.