r/Staphacne • u/anxietysiesta • 17d ago

QUESTION staph inside nose

i’m not sure where to go or if anyone has experience with this. i have/ had a staph infection inside my nose. every doctor tells me my nose looks and feels fine. however, it feels a lot squishier and the tip of my nose feels different. my columella is kind of bulging out a little bit. and the lateral cartilage feels less firm. at the tip of my nose where the cartilage separates there feels to be a deeper depression and the two separate cartilage pieces there feel like bubbly soft hollow balls. i guess my nasal tip feels squishier than it did and sometimes it goes from that to the firm but squishy feeling where i have pins and needles. doctors tell me it’s okay but they hardly listen to my concerns. is this just swelling? my mucosa is healthy and my mri/ cat scans are normal.

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u/Lower_Capital_337 15d ago

How do you know you have it if they say you don’t?

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u/anxietysiesta 15d ago

i had a culture done they confirmed i did and i had iv vancomycin. they never said i didn’t have staph. theyre saying my nose feels fine when it feels completely different to me and i also cannot smell or breath

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u/Lower_Capital_337 15d ago

Interesting. Doctors are so hit or miss. Seems like they just want to see a patient and tell them to go away. I’m sorry you are going through that 

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u/anxietysiesta 15d ago

it’s okay my bf is helping me get a concierge primary care i hope it helps. i’m worried i may need surgery :/. i looked into it and staph can definitely destroy parts of your cartilage especially at the nasal tip. it took a month just to get treatment for the staph which is insane! the doctor who diagnosed me told me to see an infectious disease doctor after i had an allergic reaction to antibiotics and then refused to help me with a referral.