I have been working out & doing some running and got a bad insect bite just below my knee on Friday on the side of my calf, near the front. I do not know what bit me. Have not run since then. I want to go back out tomorrow to run and work out. It is inflamed and I am on antibiotics because of it. It is swelled but the swelling has improved, it is very red & still sensitive and itchy. The swelled & sensitive area is about 4 inches in diameter.

Do you think working out and running will make it any worse? I have been walking on it withiut any issues.

You should talk to a doctor about it, but my guess is that you'd be fine to run on it. I have personally run through, and seen others run through, much worse.

For a more comical example, picture this: I'm out in the woods and have to "go potty" so I pop a squat and then grab a leaf to clean up with... unfortunately it was a poison ivy leaf. :eek: A few days later it was itching and swelling and oozing so bad that I just wanted to roll over and die. Even still, I continued running 4-5 miles a day despite the chaffing. The reaction was gone in a little under a week.

But being in the military, I even knew one soldier that got bit in the knee by a Brown Recluse spider and continued training for several days. Eventually he ended up with a Staphylococcus infection and had to go to a hospital, but until then it didn't slow him down at all. Of course, you don't want that to happen to you, but that's why you are on the antibiotics.

Tim