Sore, tender nose for no apparent reason

[mavericknewt]

2 days ago I woke up to a very sore, tender nose. It feels like I have been hit, but I haven't. I haven't run into anything either. Now it has a dull ache or throbbing. My sinuses seem to be fine, but it feels like my nose is getting worse, it's actually the skin that runs down the brdge of my nose that's in pain.  Please help!  thank you

[kaki5]

You guys have an infection that spread into the inside of your nose. Take a q-tip and some antibacterial cream and rub it in your nostrils for a few nights. It will go away. Good luck!

[harrylondon262]

I have the very same.. I've just been on 4 plane journeys in the last 3 days, so even though it was a worryingly big lump on the left side of my nose bridge, I assumed it must've been some kind of sinus thing because flying has always affected my sinuses in some way. And I have a massive pressure headache so it all adds up.. I found this thread very helpful :)

[Justin553]

Wow ist seems to be an epidemic i have been having the same problem about a day or two ago i noticed it it is a slight pain to the touch and swelling and i felt inside my nose a spot that was swallon and idk why or how ot take care of it either i think that i may have an intolerance ot fish because ofver the bast couple days if not weeks i have been eating a lot of salads with tuna in it and wonder if that could have something ot do with it.

[MacMaine]

I was just diagnosed with cellulitis... it is a staph infection and it is very bad when it is on the nose because it can get to your eyes, brain, lymph nodes and bloodstream and cause damage to your eyes brain and cause death if not treated.

I came to this site a few days ago looking for what is causing the pain in the bridge of my nose that started small but day after day felt like some one beat my nose with a metal bar. It took a little while searching other forums before I heard the mention of cellulitis.

I immediately paged my doctor on New Year's day to see if I should go to the emergency room since every place was closed and that I was sure I had cellulitis. She assured me that it was sinusitis and that she would call me on Monday (which is tomorrow).

Thank the universe I listened to myself and went to a walk in center today because it looks like it is starting to enter my eyes. They gave me a shot of antibiotics as well a prescription of them and told me that this is the most worrisome place to get this infection because it can progress quickly if it gets into the bloodstream.

If your nose is red and tender to the touch... the pores may start to look larger as your nose swells and look like orange peal... go get checked out!

Mine started on the bridge but it can be anywhere really... as cellulitis is not limited to the nose...

[yarrow]

Ooops, to correct my post above, the antibiotic cream I put in there is Bactroban (mupirocin), not Bactrim, as I mistakenly wrote.

[yarrow]

This is astonishing!  I had no idea so many people suffered from a sore bridge of the nose!  The number of hits you get when you google 'sore bridge of nose' is unbelievable.

I woke up with this a couple of days ago--for the second time.  The first episode was two years ago, about the same time of year.  That time, a little plastic cup had fallen from a shelf and very lightly struck the spot that became tender enough that wearing sunglasses hurt a lot.  I figured a little blood vessel must have hit the nose just perfectly and caused a bleed somewhere under the skin, even though I hadn't felt a real injury.  The skin turned a darkish red and there was enough swelling to give me a definite bump on my normally pretty straight nose, but there was no sign I could see of a sore on the inside or outside.

I put Bactrim in the nostril, and the worst of the pain went down in about five days, though the swelling was visible for a month.  If the Bactrim was helpful, it certainly wasn't dramatic, but I was traveling in a foreign country, and that's all I had for medication.

This time, however, the sudden swelling occurred while I was ALREADY taking a heavy load of amoxicillin and flagyl for a gut problem.  Go figure.  It might be significant that, just as last time, a plastic dish fell out of a cupboard and very lightly clipped me on the snoot, but I didn't feel any pain at the time.

Right now I think (hope) I'm at the phase where it's at its worst---reddish and very, very tender.  Got Bactrim in there again, and we'll see.  At least this one happened at home, so I can see a doc if I need to.

But it really is mind-blowing to see how common this problem is, and how little acquaintance doctors seem to have with it.  Is it possible that doctors do not get sore nose bridges?