patroclus
30-12-17, 19:40
So I’ve had this lump on my bikini line for almost a year now and for a while I didn’t go to the dr for it due to health anxiety and I thought it would go away on its own. It did get smaller and bigger at times, usually getting worse around the time of my period. In October it got more painful and actually started draining some so I went to the doctor and they said it was a skin abscess, likely caused by staph or mrsa. They gave me a round of Bactrim DS for I think 10 days and I took them and it did seem to get better and my anxiety about it was lessening. By the time I finished the antibiotics, the abscess was definitely a lot better though there was still a tiny lump but I didn’t think too much of it since I thought it might’ve just been scar tissue. Well a couple months passed an it’s swelled up at times but never got too bad and just a week or so ago I thought it was completely gone, I felt so relieved. All this until a few days ago when it came back and started draining again so I went to the urgent care and the doctor gave me more Bactrim to take as well as Doxycycline and I’ve been on thse for 3 days now. I don’t know for certain if it’s actually healing or not, it’s not draining anymore but the lump is still there and incredibly tender. I’m just really worried why I keep getting this and google searches have of course been no help they’re all just telling me I might have an antibiotic resistant infection of mrsa and that it might’ve gotten into my bloodstream and it’s giving me recurring infections and I’m worried it will lead to meningitis or sepsis :(
Any help/advice on this matter would mean the world to me
Any help/advice on this matter would mean the world to me