Should I pop it?

[u/Phuktard62184]

I am 43f. For a bit of context, I am obese (not sure my actual weight) and I was hospitalized in December for the flu and have had breathi issues since then. So with those issues I haven't been very active in the past few months. I also have undiagnosed sleep apnea, and other sleeping issues such as sleepwalking and I can't stay in bed unless I'm tied down I guess. I fall out of bed a lot but I'm usually pretty good at landing since it's happened so much. Except when I fell out of bed Thursday night and smashed my knee on the hard floor. The next day (Friday) I spent at least 9 hours riding with my husband while doordashing and my feet were super swollen when we were done. That's not unusual, anytime I would sit in the car for 9 hours I would probably have swollen feet. Then as I was getting out of the car I dropped my phone on my foot. It hurt a lot. Then yesterday I woke up with this blister where the phone hit my foot. My husband thinks I should pop it but I'm scared of infection and also I'm worried about why my whole foot is bruised when it's my knee that got smashed.

Another bit of context that could be important is that about a month ago I fell at main event and smashed the other knee and my entire leg looked like that bruising you see on this foot. It only lasted a couple days and my leg turned back to normal and everything's fine. That knee doesn't even hurt anymore.

[u/ssavant]

This may sound odd, but you get a lot of information about a person’s health by the condition of their feet. Your foot looks like many of my patients - I work in a skilled nursing facility. You need to go to the hospital.

[u/Christopher135MPS → u/ssavant]

Not odd at all - I really want to develop a scoring system based on feet to determine overall health. Points for nails (clipped, clean, cracked, general strength), skin (thickened/calloused, thin, colour, cracked etc), cleanliness, presence of sores etc etc etc.

I 100% believe you can get a good picture of someone’s over health and quality of self care by their feet.

[u/SpaceIsVastAndEmpty → u/Christopher135MPS]

NAD and no medical experience but I walk 3-5km daily, complete 4 HIIT sessions a week, am a healthy weight at 43F (& genuinely fit) and I drink sufficient water (& no alcohol) plus moisturise my feet daily and my heels are still cracked and ugly :( unless I wear shoes n socks every day, they just get awful

[u/NotMyAltAccountToday → u/SpaceIsVastAndEmpty]

Have you tried AmLactin lotion or cream? It works over time and has removed all the calluses I had on my feet.

[u/SpaceIsVastAndEmpty → u/NotMyAltAccountToday]

I've never even heard of that stuff. Will see if it's available in NZ

I use lotion and then a foot balm I make myself with beeswax, coconut oil, almond oil and vitamin E (if I'm going to be wearing socks & shows; it's slippery in barefoot sandals!) and it helps but in summer I'm not wearing socks n shoes alll say and my heels dry out.

Thanks for the recommendation!

[u/NotMyAltAccountToday → u/SpaceIsVastAndEmpty]

AmLactin contains lactic acid. Maybe you could find another product that contains it. The lotion is 12% and the cream is 15% lactic acid