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Can cellulitis turn your skin purple

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I have had cellulitis before but I did not notice the Deep Purple throughout my foot even though the Deep Red was there it's swelling purple dark purple has anyone heard of this with cellulitis thank you

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Yes, this is a common after effect of cellulitis - do you have reoccurrence of infection?

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tluckthank u and yes... from what I understand you can come back multiple times in a lifetime and some antibiotics takes it away in may never hear from me again or you may and typically the top of the federal burn turned beet red Flatout Hertz but this time it look like someone / planned a brick on my foot I mean it was red purple if this app lets me do it I'll send you a picture of it is this app let me send a picture it's just my foot it's nothing bad and thank you for the response I feel a little better that purple crap was scaring me when I did decide to make it to the doctor the redness went away in some of the purple is there and her answer was well it looks like maybe you fell or something fell on you so do you not see the red and the wrinkles in my skin from where the swelling has been going down I said I'm not a doctor but I know that when I see the wrinkles drawing back up that some of the swelling in the water pulling back together her answer was but something had it Fallen foot I said are you not going to do blood cultures I was just no need to I trust new doctor I read I read I read unfortunately in really bad situations we have to but I don't like to

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Please forgive me I use voice recognition and it just flat-out stinks so when you see that I misspelled something or it's at a place it's because of the voice recognition sorry

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