I've had cellulitis for 3 weeks and it's not healing so well on oral antibiotics. But I was wondering if all ready existing cellulitis can devlope INTO Necrotizing fasciitis or if this is a different condition/type of cellulitis all together?
I am worried because of the amount of antibiotics i have to take and my weakened immune system...
If anyone has any medical knowledge on this please help me.
panda best thing is ask google not sure myself but it would not surprise me
I've tried to find info on google but it's apparently quite an odd question.
Hi. I am not medically qualified but all I can say is I had around 6 different types of antibiotics, oral to start with then iv in hospital then oral for another couple of months. Mine was misdiagnosed to start with so got a real hold in the system. I would say go for whatever antibiotics it takes so it sorts it out.
hi panda from what i read answer is yes but you want the doc a/e with their swabs to a culture to b e sure dont get worried you would b really ill with that but if worried do what i said c u all
I'm sorry you had such a hard time with yours. What was it in the end, nectrotizing fasciitis?
Thank you 
Yes they did a swab. I have a staph aureus infection in my wound. I've been on antibiotics for over 3 weeks now. I'm allergic to penicillin potentially so they gave me clarithromycin. It's closing the wound up slowly but my cellulitis won't budge an inch. The swellings gone down but it's still red, warm and sore.
Hi
No-one could say anything other than cellulitis but couldn't understand why it had affected two legs. I remember Clarithromycin (I am allergic to Penicillin too) didn't work for me but I will try and find the name of the one I was discharged on and had to stay on a while as it kept firing up every time I came off it. X
i was lucky each time had they put on flufloxacillian which which works and you i can feel the difference in hoursi would be a bit miffed if body got used to it sofar ok it sounds simalar to me redness still there after year but saying that leg looks ok the trouble is thiers no follow up clinic where you talk to others with others with same prob and mite come with a different way of clearing it up if in doubt panda docs or a/e/er
Well, I'm hoping that tomorrow I'll get a different antibiotic to try :c But I'm glad yours is doing better. So do you still have the redness? What about the heat?
hi panda still have redness some days worse than others slightly warm but NOT RED HOT wow i am very weary of it legs always covered outside any cracks in skin one of the main things was athletes feet but i have really got on off it anti fungal cream clean and dry put on cream 3 times a day well worth it the effort hope you get treated the way you want thanks for your reply iit does take time though do you hve any other probs with leg i have swollen legs so does not help let us know how you go on c u
I'm so sorry to hear about that. :c
My doc has just took me off antibiotics because now she isn't sure if it is cellulitis. So I might have taken 4 weeks of antibiotics for nothing.
But if it IS then I am at risk of it spreading and maybe turning into sepsis or something horrible.
I feel so helpless.
hi panda dont b getting in a state i know it can ba worry so what are they giving you and what they saying it is you got something what they doing about it ????????????? have you got to go again for tests cu paul
Keep going back to doc with any change or feeling unwell and I took photos every night and every morning and showed them as mine used to look so different in colour and swelling shape.
Keep going back to doc with any change or feeling unwell and I took photos every night and every morning and showed them as mine used to look so different in colour and swelling shape.