Extremely painful, swollen nose - staph infection?

[kansaspeg]

Came down with a big sore bump inside my left nostril.  Entire left side of nose became red and swollen.  Went to Prime Care and test showed "light staph infection".  Have been taking double-strength Bactrim along with Valtrex in case it could be the start of shingles.  It has been 4 days on meds with no improvement, but no rash either.  Extremely painful.  Wake up every 2 hours and need Vicodin.  Seems to radiate into cheek.  Scalp itches now.  Now also have one swollen, painful lymph node under left jaw.  Shouldn't the Bactrim be working by now?  Is there a more effective antibiotic that I should be using?

[mikaela673]

I have the same thing right now. I big swollen bump on my nose. It got better and now its bad again. Really red. Do you know what it could be.

[ManukaHoneyGirl]

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[sardar111]

I get this type sore whenever I start pulling hairs out of my nose without first cleaning my nose with antiseptic with a swab. If this is a problem use salt after blowing your nose with water, not with a tissue. Well, the treatment that I use is washing my face every 2-3 hours to remove the grease/oil that accumulates on and around the boil. This will soon within 24 hours reduce the headache and the pain on the boil. You might get an infection later so take lots to drink and green tea and vitamin C and lots of fruit and salad. Do not use any antibiotics. Sleep a lot.

[rita559]

If you do have a boil in your nose the antibiotics may not help.  I had one on my elbow and took antibiotics for almost two weeks and it just got worse.  My whole arm was numb.  The doctor told me that when you have a boil sometimes the only solution is to have it cut and drained. I did not want it cut but after he did it drained and was back almost to normal after 2 days.

[tonynina]

Thank you for that valiable information.was battling with the red swelling inside my nose and got something called nasivion this was to help the swelling go and also open my nose blocage but see the phamasit was off target.will go and see a doctor. Anymore info send to my email ***@****

[tonynina]

Thank you for that valiable information.was battling with the red swelling inside my nose and got something called nasivion this was to help the swelling go and also open my nose blocage but see the phamasit was off target.will go and see a doctor. Anymore info send to my email ***@****