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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Dr. Andrew Rynne

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Hi. On March 12th I Had To Make A Trip

Hi. On March 12th I had to make a trip to Urgent Care where I was diagnosed with facial cellulitis. Directly under my right was was swollen very large to where I could only see out half of my eye. The doctor prescribed me 500mg of Keflex 4 times a day. She said that if it got any worse to go to the emergency room because it was so close to my eye and she didn't want it to cause any damage. The swelling moved a little closer to my eye with in a few hours so I called her and she told me to go into the ER. They told me that facial cellulitis was (or could be? they weren't clear) staph infection. They had to put me on an hour of IV antibiotics and gave me a CT scan. They prescribed me Bactrim on top of the Keflex because they said that Keflex didn't treat staph. All the swelling went down and finished 20 days of anti biotics (I currently have a yeast infection from them). After I finished the antibiotics my eyes (prominently the right eye where all the swelling was) feel..off. It feels sort of sticky or goopy, but there really isn't any discharge except it's a little more watery than usual. It constantly feels like there is something in my eyes or my eyelashes aren't laying right. I went to Urgent Care again yesterday after noticing I had a temperature of 100 and I was afraid that maybe the staph infection had moved to somewhere else in my body. The doctor shined a light in my eye and said it looked normal. He gave me 10 days worth of Levaquin 500mg once a day. It made me uneasy that he didn't do a blood test for staph or refer me or anything. He said he thought I may have an upper respiratory infection starting. Today, my eye feels a little warm to me, kind of swollen feeling, but it doesn't look swollen. It feels a little numb? maybe. But it seems very sticky still. I was told to use artificial tears, but those don't seem to be helping. I'm a little worried.
(The above was written April 9th)
Update: I finished the Levaquin and was prescribed antibiotic drops from an eye doctor. My eyes still feel just the same as they did before. It felt like they were getting a little better while on the antibiotics but it is back to how it was. The eye doctor nor the urgent care doctor has tested me for anything, has looked deeper into my eyes, nothing. They looked at them with a flashlight and said they looked fine. Story of my life.. "you look fine".
Fri, 24 Apr 2015
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