A couple of days later, I am feeling a lot better. No pain or irritation. Most redness is gone. I think the antibiotics are doing their job of kicking any bacteria that irritated the skin.

My doc did note that the area looked ever so slightly abraded, likely a result of sweat + friction. Which, would then create an ideal opportunity for a little secondary infection.

When my doc & I spoke today, she said, "yeah, your labs came back negative" and I had to stifle my desire to go, "Yeah, duh!".

I know docs try to be careful and cautious, and I appreciate her looking out for me to make sure this wasn't something that could've been serious, but seriously, I wish more docs were savvy to bike injuries. Oh well, can't really expect them to be sports medicine specialists.

Maybe in the future, I'd be better taking this kind of stuff to a dermatologist? Someone who can look at weird skin stuff and better pinpoint, without saying, "I'm going to run a culture for *insert name of scary disease here*." ?

On the upside, I should shut up and be grateful that it's nothing more than saddle sores that are going away.