Cellulitis
This is the pictorial story of my bout with cellulitis.
Friday, November 9th, I woke up around 4am shivering uncontrollably. I got up and got more blankets and went back to sleep. I woke up later in the morning to go to class. My right leg was hurting badly. It felt like I had pulled a muscle. I also felt nauseas, had a high fever, and also still had chills and shivering. I decided to skip classes, and just sleep all day.
The next morning I woke up and my leg still hurt. I had trouble walking and noticed that my leg was developing what looked like a rash. I eventually went to the Emergency Room, and this picture was taken shortly after I got done.
They diagnosed me with cellulitis, prescribed me some pain medication and Bactrim antibiotics, drew a blue line on my leg, and sent me home.
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It is a dangerous thing. I was admitted for a week late June at a hospital and given antibiotics via an IV. Til’ this day I still have redness and are taking anitbiotics. You need to take care of it and get it check out again. It may come and go..
It certainly is. Its been over a year now, and thankfully I haven’t had any more problems. You can’t even tell now that my leg was infected. Hopefully it won’t ever come back.
Robert Ramirez
Ive had cellulitis reoccur atleast 7 or 8 times. The last time was September/October 2008. The redness came back early January 2009 and is still there but blood tests came back negative as they have before. my docter said to wait it out over the next few months. Should I be concerned or just live with it untill somethins happens?
I don’t know what to tell you. Once mine disappeared, it never came back. You should seek advice from your doctor.
Thts the whole problem. I have seeked out help and everyone says just wait and see…but its so, so not right when you look down at your leg and have this red blotch that wont go away. Thanks for respoding though! I didn’t know if anyone would respond.
How long did the whole recovery process take? I just started the antibiotics and it feels a lot better, just wondering how long my leg will be all red and blotchy…
Once I started the medication I started feeling better right away also. But I did have redness and blotchiness for around 2 months.
I got that horrible illness, just now recovering. I went to the hospital 2 days after cutting my arm on a nail. First it just turned red, then these horrible itchy blisters broke out. My hand was all swollen, I could no longer make a fist. It was bedtime, and I went to bed like that. It was even worse in the morning. I was so scared, I looked like a lepar, and was concerned about the care of my children if I were admitted, and I was….for 3 days iv antibiotics….a visit from my md, and an infecticios disease dr. Now, I am back home, and on strong medication…..I hope I never get that again….
Just went to the dr. today with what seems to be the same thing. Started with an insect bite 2 days ago. Am on antibiotics but Dr. said if I get fever or chills over the weekend to go right to the ER for IV antibiotics.
I think I caught it early. Red and swollen and just starting to spread.
Now I have to stay home off my feet the whole weekend.
I never heard of this until I got it.
Best wishes to all.
Lucky you guys. I got cellulitis from working in a hospital. It’s been over a year and the first time around with the antibiotics it went away for a few months. My spouse and I moved into a new home and I must have agrevated it somehow and it came back full force. Now it will not go away. I’ve been to the doctor again for the same antibiotics. I’ve tried the ph balance of the body thing seemed to work. The itching part (yes I know it’s healing) I can not stand. It drives me nuts until I just end up scratching at it. Sigh, am I doomed for life?
So glad to see someone is talking about this… I started out with a little red spot on my chin friday 1/2010, by Sunday my face was really sore and swollen..Went to ER and they said I had a abscess on chin so they lanced it and drained it. Then it still kept getting worse even taking a antibiotic(Bactrim). By Tues. I could not put my teeth together cause my gum was so swollen, lips looked like I got backhanded a FEW times and no jaw line was visible on the left side of my face and I had never been so nauseated. Went back to the ER Wed. early morning had a Cat Scan and blood work done. Next thing I new they were bringing me morphine for pain and a IV antibiotic. They released me that day with a prescription of pain meds and another antibiotic to take along with the first one. I was not able to eat for 3 and half days, symptoms of the condition and all the meds were all making me sick. So I took the pain meds one day and had to start taking Ibuprofen instead. All in all I think this pain has been worse than recovering from my 2 C-sections having my girls.
So I was hoping to find out if there are many cases that people get it back in the same place again…
I contracted cellulitis in my face a few days before Xmas 2009. By Boxing Day it had spread so badly that I went to A&E, where I was given Augmentin antibiotics. They had no effect at all and by 29 December I was in hospital for a few days of intraveinous Teicoplanin. That helped but certainly didn’t clear it up completely. I then had to take a combination of 500 mg each of Flucloxacillin and Phenoxymethylpenicillin Potassium for a week, which made me nauseous but seemed to work. A few days days later my face started coming up red and swollen again and I was put on 500 mg Azithromycin (a non-penicillin antibiotic) for 6 days. Again it seemed to work, but a few days after finishing the meds the infection took hold again. A further 10 days of the same tablets finished on Sunday – it’s now Wednesday night and I’m going to have to go back to the doctor tomorrow as my left eye, where it all started, is itching like mad and I’m still getting the tingling sensation that Azithromycin produces. Am otherwise fine but it’s all extremely worrying. Surely one can’t go on taking antibiotics forever, but there seems to be no other known remedy.
I am a massage therapist and I was diagnosed with cellulitis this past weekend. I was pretty sure that was what it was, but my doctor insisted on doing tests for blood clots too. No clots but a night in the lovely (not!) hospital. Are blood clots something that occurs with celluitis? I also have rheumatoid arthritis, so this is a double whammy for me. I got a couple IVs of something and they sent me an antibiotic and something that doesn’t work for the pain. The swelling is coming back today. If it swells again tomorrow, should I go back to the ER?
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