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Can all ready exiting cellulitis turn into Necrotizing fasciitis?

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Pandacake
Pandacake

I've had cellulitis for 3 weeks and it's not healing so well on oral antibiotics. But I was wondering if all ready existing cellulitis can devlope INTO Necrotizing fasciitis or if this is a different condition/type of cellulitis all together?

I am worried because of the amount of antibiotics i have to take and my weakened immune system... 

If anyone has any medical knowledge on this please help me.

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  • pauluk60
    pauluk60 Pandacake

    Posted

    panda best thing is ask google not sure myself but it would not surprise me
  • Pandacake
    Pandacake

    Posted

    I've tried to find info on google but it's apparently quite an odd question. 

  • sara03101
    sara03101 Pandacake

    Posted

    Hi. I am not medically qualified but all I can say is I had around 6 different types of antibiotics, oral to start with then iv in hospital then oral for another couple of months. Mine was misdiagnosed to start with so got a real hold in the system. I would say go for whatever antibiotics it takes so it sorts it out.
    • Pandacake
      Pandacake sara03101

      Posted

      I'm sorry you had such a hard time with yours. What was it in the end, nectrotizing fasciitis?

    • sara03101
      sara03101 Pandacake

      Posted

      Hi

      No-one could say anything other than cellulitis but couldn't understand why it had affected two legs. I remember Clarithromycin (I am allergic to Penicillin too) didn't work for me but I will try and find the name of the one I was discharged on and had to stay on a while as it kept firing up every time I came off it. X

  • pauluk60
    pauluk60 Pandacake

    Posted

    hi panda from what i read answer is yes but you want the doc a/e with their swabs to a culture to b e sure dont  get worried you would b really ill with that but if worried do what i said c u all

     

    • Pandacake
      Pandacake pauluk60

      Posted

      Thank you smile Yes they did a swab. I have a staph aureus infection in my wound. I've been on antibiotics for over 3 weeks now. I'm allergic to penicillin potentially so they gave me clarithromycin. It's closing the wound up slowly but my cellulitis won't budge an inch. The swellings gone down but it's still red, warm and sore. 

  • pauluk60
    pauluk60 Pandacake

    Posted

    i was lucky each time had they put on flufloxacillian which which works  and you i can feel the difference in hoursi would be a bit miffed if body got  used to it sofar ok  it sounds simalar to me redness still there after year  but saying that leg looks ok the trouble is thiers no follow up clinic where you talk  to others with others with same prob and mite come with a different way of clearing it up if in doubt panda docs or a/e/er
  • Pandacake
    Pandacake

    Posted

    Well, I'm hoping that tomorrow I'll get a different antibiotic to try :c But I'm glad yours is doing better. So do you still have the redness? What about the heat? 

  • pauluk60
    pauluk60 Pandacake

    Posted

    hi panda still have redness some days worse than others slightly warm but NOT RED HOT wow i am very weary of it legs always covered  outside any cracks in skin  one of the main things was athletes feet but i have really got on off it anti fungal cream clean and dry put on cream 3 times a day well worth it the effort  hope you get treated the way you want thanks for your reply iit does take time though do you hve any other probs with leg i have swollen legs so does not help let us know how you go on c u 
    • Pandacake
      Pandacake pauluk60

      Posted

      I'm so sorry to hear about that. :c 

      My doc has just took me off antibiotics because now she isn't sure if it is cellulitis. So I might have taken 4 weeks of antibiotics for nothing. 

      But if it IS then I am at risk of it spreading and maybe turning into sepsis or something horrible.

      I feel so helpless. 

  • pauluk60
    pauluk60 Pandacake

    Posted

    hi panda dont b getting in a state i know it can ba worry  so what are they giving you and what they saying it is you got something what they doing about  it ????????????? have you  got to go again for tests cu paul
  • sara03101
    sara03101 Pandacake

    Posted

    Keep going back to doc with any change or feeling unwell and I took photos every night and every morning and showed them as mine used to look so different in colour and swelling shape.
  • sara03101
    sara03101 Pandacake

    Posted

    Keep going back to doc with any change or feeling unwell and I took photos every night and every morning and showed them as mine used to look so different in colour and swelling shape.
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