i’ve had a staph infection inside of my nose for over a month. has anyone else been through this?
my nose feels squishier than usual, boggy, not as chiseled. it goes from feeling really firm to soft. sometimes my nostrils close in and sometimes not. i have had fevers at times, white pustules in my nose, grey colored mucus, no mucus and just an extremely dry nose that no humidifier can help. i live in fl and not even keeping my balcony door open helps. i get throbbing headaches at times. i cant breath or smell but not because of congestion it just feels blocked? i have had crusts on and off randomly form in my nose. i get serious pins and needles radiating from my nose especially when it becomes firmer. the columella in between my nostrils becomes softer to almost feeling like a part of it is bulging out. i don’t have a perforation or any tissue death but my nose just hasn’t functioned in over a month. my culture showed a heavy amount of staph.
when my nose was dry the air felt cold. i have had crusts form all over my nose. i get a metallic blood like taste in my mouth at times. other times a funky taste. after the four rounds of vancomycin these symptoms were going away. a mucus plug came out. my nose was becoming normal. and then a few days later the symptoms came back. sometimes my nose almost feels skeletal.
muciprocen worked and then while using it the scabs came back tenfold. the vancomycin was the only thing that really helped but the nurse didn’t finish a bag so i essentially got 3 1/2 rounds.
i don’t have a primary care doctor so it’s been a pain trying to find someone. i scheduled an apt but the earliest availability is october. i just feel so sad. my noses structure and function hasn’t been the same.
i can show you a baseline photo of my nose vs an after because you can visually see how puffy it looks.
when it started my nose was stretchy and it felt like 0 cartilage was left. i was able to stretch it out like mozzarella cheese. i cant think of another analogy. it’s since gotten a little firmer but hasn’t changed. when i massaged it the other day i started feeling more cartilage again like how it felt before all of this? i don’t know how this is even possible. im rlly sorry im using third grade descriptors and analogies but i cant think of any other way to explain it
Muciprocen worked until it stopped working. The strain is oaxicillin resistant. i’m allergic to bactrm. i’ve had 4 rounds of iv antibiotics (vancomycin) and then it came back. My mri was cleared and so my infectious disease doctor is refusing to give me another culture. My ent refuses to see me because I need to see an ID doctor.