I have cellulitis, it's been 3 days with antibiotics, the pain is worse. Is !
Question: I woke up with a red, hot, swollen and painful part of my leg 6 days ago. Hospital Dr. diagnosed cellulitis, gave me IV antibiotics and 2 oral antibiotics. The redness, swelling and heat have diminished but the pain is worse. There are no scratches, cuts, bruises or wounds on or around the area. Is this normal?
Answers: I woke up with a red, hot, swollen and painful part of my leg 6 days ago. Hospital Dr. diagnosed cellulitis, gave me IV antibiotics and 2 oral antibiotics. The redness, swelling and heat have diminished but the pain is worse. There are no scratches, cuts, bruises or wounds on or around the area. Is this normal?
but have you ingured youy leg at all if so i would go straigh back to the doctor my fried had cellulitis and ended up in hosp with antibotics till healed but still had underlying injury to the bone ...
I had the same thing in my arm from a spider bite and then it turned into a staph infection. The is antibiotic cream that can help, but my pain got worse before it got better. The pain lasted 3-4 days after the redness left.
Actually yes because the pressure is your leg was compressing your leg so much that parts of your skin was probably numb. now that the swelling has gone down you can feel it more, now that there is more space. Those are signs that infection is decreasing. Remember to finish all your antibiotics even if the pain is completely gone, so that the infection doesn't come back worse and stronger/ resistant to the antibiotics you are currently taking.
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if after you are finished taking the antibiotics and it comes back after 2-3 days, have your dr. test for MRSA. i tell this to everyone, now since it happened to me and i had never in my life had cellulitis, nor any other health problems