Unilateral conjunctivitis for 3 months
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I have an unilateral palpebral conjunctivitis for the past 3 months now. The bottom eyelid is also rly swollen and red. My eyeball itself isn’t really red though. Discharge is minimal, if I even have it? No tearing, but eye feels kinda dry sometimes
My doctor ordered a lab test which suggests it’s a Staph infection, but the prescribed fusithalmic acid I’ve been using for the past 2 weeks haven’t done anything. I was also given hydrocortisone to use on my bottom eyelid when the swelling is really bad but I try to avoid it
Any ideas what this could be? some super strain of Staph that’s resistant to fucithalmic, or is it something else? I just think it’s weird it hasn’t spread to the other eye…
Thanks!
PS I tested negative for HIV, HPV, Hep B, chlamydia & gonnorrhea a week ago. They didn’t sample my eye though.
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mrsmop joshfin
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Have you been back to the doctor and told him that the Fucithalmic doesn't appear to be working? Perhaps you need the steroid drops too. They tend to give you a course, rather than using it when necessary and Ophthalmologists prescribe them.
Hydrocortisone is another name for corticosteroid, [steroid]
https://patient.info/medicine/fusidic-acid-eye-drops-fucithalmic
joshfin mrsmop
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yeah, the hydrocortisone was the first thing I was prescribed to get rid of the redness. it was before we "found out" it was caused by Staph
I'm just....so frustrated...
mrsmop joshfin
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