Tip of nose: Excruciating *PAIN*

[Babs145]

For the past week or so I've been experiencing nose bleeds, open sores in my nose and swelling and pain on the tip of my nose(on the left side). The sores and bleeding is only in the left nostril. My nose bleeds aren't free flowing. It's more like a small amount of blood that appears when I blow my nose.

My left nostril(on the tip) is very firm and the pain is sometimes excruciating. I thought it might possibly be a pimple under my skin that wasn't surfacing at first. (that's how it feels anyway)

Has anyone ever experienced this?

[hollywood_deez]

call me hollywood...but my nose is in so much pain, is so sore and painful, every time i touch it, anything presses up against it, i cant even kiss my girlfriend because when our noses touch it hurts that much.  i dont know whats the problem, ive been looking online for solutions but all i see is these different names and different diagnostics and everyone sayn just go get some creams basically but idk ima have to try somethin because this is pain that i want gone. i see no pimples, i see some redness, no nose bleeds, just a very sore n tender right lower nose tip??????? keep posted

[KMN]

I had pain in the tip of my nose that would cause swelling. It would come and go over several days. After a couple of trips to my GP, he finally tested me for staph - which came back positive. I think (but I'm not sure)that some people can be carriers of staph colonies and therefore be more susceptable to this infection. I had been taking OTC allergy medicine which dried out the membrane in my nose, then cracked open, giving the staph a place to grow.

I applied an antibiotic ointment (one the doctor gave me, not an OTC) to the inside of my nose for a week or so and it went away.

You should all have your doctors test your noses for staph...the pain is too excruciating to live with!!

[Diesel1975]

Holy Cow!!! I can't believe everyone is writing about the same exact pain I have.  The right tip of my nostril is in excrutiating pain, I can't even put a t-shirt on without pain if it rubs against my nostril.   This *****!!! isn't a staph infection what you get when you have had surgery in a hospital and been exposed to some bacteria??? I don't think it is that.. I have not been in a hospital for years! it is definitely that pimple feeling, but there is no pimple!  WTF!  

[aganippides]

I have been struggling with similar painful pimplesque lesions on the tip of my nose, but also at times on my upper lip, sides of the nose, even chin. I've had a bloody nasal passage most winters. I went to the doctor and forgot to mention the blood I see when I blow my nose, but the red thing on the tip of my nose couldn't be missed. She speculated it might be herpes, because topical antibiotics have been ineffective and she didn't think these were bacterially infected. She put me on 5 days of an antiviral. Coincidentally or causally, these painful bumps have subsided in 5 days to where my skin actually looks like it is in a healing mode (rather than active with some erruption) for the first time in months.
I also had a sore ear, which I was ignoring until it became noticably tender a couple days ago after doing some pilates for the first time in 2 years. I showed it to my MD friend who was visiting for Thanksgiving. She was intrigued by the antiviral therapy, its effect, and the ear thing which actually was a painful lump of the same general type as on the nose, but in the crease between the back of my ear and my head. Herpes hangs out in the nerve roots. Mostly, people's immune system keeps the various types of herpes in suppression. But for whatever reason, the herpes can become strongly expressed, as is the case with shingles (herpes zoster). There is a nerve connection between the tip of the nose and the ear, so a herpes flare up in these areas can be a serious matter and should be examined.
In any case, antibacterial therapies will be ineffective against herpes. Sometimes throwing different types of medicines at a problem, medicines that otherwise do no harm, can help determine through what works, that a problem is one or another thing. Sometimes a culture can identify something positively, but tests that are comprehensive enough to yield answers can be more trouble than just trying out one or another treatment. Some people stay on a suppression doses of antimicrobials or antifungals for a while.

[WANNABENURSE83]

MY NOSE AS WELL IS SOOO PAINFUL, AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A PIMPLE BUT NOTHING EVER ERUPTED, ITS MORE ON THE INSIDE OF MY NOSE AND NOW ITS SWOLLEN. LIKE EVERYONE ELSE I HAVE HAD THIS PAIN ON AND OFF FOR A WHILE BUT NOW ITS EVEN MORE PAINFUL AND BOTHERSOME. STAPH?? GEE SHOULD I GO TO ER STAT?

[Cali222]

I've had the same symptoms for years!  It come and goes and is sometimes more painful than other times.  I also went to my doc and he perscribed a nasal spray and ointment.  Those didn't work .  My left side tip is swollen, and as I mentioned i've had this pain for at least 5 or more years.  I'm looking into rhinoplasty.  I'm so fustrated with doc not being able to know what it is.  At this point I just want a surgeon to go in and cut whatever it is out!