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boil turned infection and what is the cure
I have had an ingrowing hair near my bottom that turned into a boil but is still releasing puss after 2 weeks and I can feel a lump in my buttocks
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persistent staph skin infection
In January I got a skin infection - a red swelling on my cheek. My GP gave me flucoxillin and fucidin ointment. Since then, for the past six months, every three or four weeks I would get a minor staph skin infection in form of small red swelling or rash which my GP treats with fucidin ointment and then this week I got another absess bigger than one in January and my GP said I should have eradication therapy but just gave me same drugs as before: naseptin ointment, fucidin and flucoxillin and told me to use all until gone. But didn't say if this would cure it or what my other options are. I don't smoke or drink. I look after my health and am careful with hygiene. My life has been utterly put on hold this year because of this disfiguring skin infection. My skin is becoming ruined because it is leaving marks. My confidence is destroyed, I don't sleep, my work is affected, I don't socialise or date. I am 36 years old and feel like my life is over because I absolutely cannot date or start a relationship while I have this awful infection. I am at my wits ends what to do. Should I go private and see a specialist? Could they help? I must be honest with you, I have started wishing I would not wake up at all in the morning than wake up to another bacterial infection lump on my face. My face is on/off tingly and itchy where my GP say infection of absess presses on nerves in face. I am scared because I read online that for about 20% unlucky people staph skin infection is a permanent lifelong condition and I do not want to live with continued red lumpy face and not feeling able to socialise and have normal contact with people. Please, I will do anything if someone would give me some help with this!!!
I should add that since I have had the skin infection, although I look after my health and wellbeing, I have felt constantly exhausted and under the weather. One GP I told this said it was because I was not sleeping well because of worrying about the infection, but I am able to get six-eight hours sleep most nights with Boots natural sleep tablets and I still feel tired all the time. I am not anaemic but have not been tested for diabetes.
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Fingernails
My fingernails are falling off.
I suffer from Arnold-Chiari Malformation and low B12 which has been successfully treated with injections for over a year.
What could be the cause and what medical tests should be carried out?
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I don't know what's wrong with my skin
I have always suffered mild acne since teenage years which, although mild, has overly affected my self esteem. I have also suffered with severe depression through my late 20s/early 30s. In my early 30s I got my acne under control which helped me a lot in life, I was able to date and have relationships for the first time! But due to stress my depression got worse and in the past two years I drank alcohol quite heavily every week. This year in January I got a red swelling in my right cheek that started off as two small pimples then became a red swelling on the apple of my cheek. It felt warm and 'burning' on and off. My GP said it was a bacterial skin infection and gave me fluxocillin and fucidin cream, it went in about 3-4 days. After this I re-evaluated my lifestyle and stopped drinking completely. (I have not had alcohol since early January this year.) Then about 3 weeks later I got another bacterial infection lower down my cheek and another GP took a skin scraping and gave me fluxo and fucidin again and it went again. The skin scraping did not reveal any particular bacteria however. My skin was clear of this infection for about six weeks. However, I got a mild outbreak of acne, maybe because of stress. And during this two very small red patches came up on my cheek (same area and looking same as skin infection before) although they do not feel hot or itchy this time. This time when I saw another GP he thought I may have acne rosacea (although I told him about previous skin infection) and gave me oxy oral tablets for acne and fucidin for skin infection. The acne has responded quickly to the oral tablets (and I still have five weeks left to take tablets) and the small areas that I thought were the recurring skin infection have responded well to fucidin. However, the GP has planted seed in my mind that I have rosacea and I am panicking! I just really don't want to have this awful condition after having gone through acne for most of my life and getting it under control. I don't / never have facial flushing although I am fair-skinned and have a few broken capillaries. Even when I drank heavily in past my face did not flush much or at all. A skin infection that may take some time to get rid of is ok, but rosacea just wouldn't make my life worth living. I would never have confidence to date again and to socialise and get on with my life because my self esteem has never been good. How do I know if I have rosacea, is there a test a dermatologist can do?
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I have a problem small scar/dent on my top lip
Hi
I recently had a cold sore a few weeks back and may have picked it,
It is fully healed now, however it's left a small dent/scar. I've tried vitamin E oil for the past week or so but no improvement as such.
Do you have any advice, ie in the way of creams, or other oilments over the counter or do you think it may improve in time in your experience?also I've read about laser treatment to try and fill it in, and would this work on the lip area? if so, can you recommend any good clinics?, as this is really beginning to affect my confidence now and also going to a friend's wedding in about 6 weeks so need a remedy please and also any supplements/diet i can take to stop getting cold sores?
Many thanks
Please advise
Regards
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Leg ulcers
A small knock to the lower shin of my left leg that broke the skin and bled in July 1009 resulted in a leg ulcer that then caused a further ulcer higher up the shin followed by pain in the leg when I had the leg horizontal, ie in bed or raised on a stool. This eventually caused a further ulcer to break out on the foot just above the middle toe. I was treated at my GP's surgery for some time and then by the district nurse at home until a couple of weeks ago when the final ulcer on my foot stopped discharging and dried up A couple of months ago I saw my doctor about my left calf which was swelling considerably and was told that it was due to the blood flowing into the leg and not returning and that there was no cure for it. I considered this and wondered if it could be due to not getting enough exercise due to spending too much time sitting watching Wimbledon tennis, world football, and athletics during the day. I went out and had a three-mile walk plus three jogs over 100m. This seemed to help and I continued with more regular exercise, but recently the leg has started to swell up again. There is no swelling when I get out of bed in the morning but swells up again as I move around. I was diagnosed with anaemia at the beginning of 2007 but was told that it wasn't the type where one is short of iron. I attend the hospital every couple of months to have a blood test and to see the consultant who keeps a check on any variation in the white and red blood cells. I mentioned to him about the leg swelling but he told me that he would see me again in a few weeks time. I also have an itching problem and have itched all over my body at times. The main area at the present time is down my spine. A couple of months ago I complained to my GP about redness and itching in the groin at the top of both legs. He told my that it was a fungus and prescribed anti-fungal cream which I used daily until the fungus cleared. I am taking Atarax 25mg anti-histamine tablets for the itching that give me some relief. I put all these problems down to the blood disorder. I would be extremely grateful for your thoughts and opinion on my problem. I am 82 years of age. Sincerely, **** *******.
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