Cellulitis Pictures

I bought a new pair of Nikes and wore them for the first time with clean socks. At the end of the day my feet were on fire and itching in the pattern of the shoes and not the socks. Went to dr and got cream for the itch, went the next week and got prednisone. By the next week the itch was gone but got horrible cellulitis in my left foot. On my 2nd antibiotic and can still barely walk on the foot. The pain is tough. All this from innocently buying a pair of shoes.

I contracted cellulitis the day after total knee replacement. My mom and husband noticed that my leg looked different than the other one when I had it done in November. On the second day with the bandages off, they were adament about getting a doctor to look at me. I was diagnosed and moved to my own room. I was put on Keflex for two days and then switched to Clindamyicin for 15 more intraveneosly then 10 days orally. When the infection was still not gone I was put on levaquin for 10 more days. This was horrible, I had an adverse reaction to the levaquin and landed up in the hospital. I finished the treatment using anti-diarreha and anti-nausa medication and feeling over all really sick. I have been off of the anti-biotics for 10 days now and the infection has started to show it's ugly face. I am really bummed by this. In addition, I think that it may have spread to lips as they are swollen and red too now.

My brain has been fuzzy, my word recall ability was challenged, and I can't stay awake all day. I get car sick when I ride in the car and have just started driving myself as all of my help has had to go back to their lives. I don't go far, just to physical therapy and to town for food and mail. It is important to Remeber when one part of our body has an infection it affects the whole body. Our brains do not work right and it is important to know that and to make appropriate decisions.

My doctor is treating me for lymphodema, but my health-food-store guru determined my swollen, red feet, ankles, and calves to be cellulitis. It feels like my feet are ON FIRE. It's been 34 days now. My guru advised me to take Butcher's Broom capsules. I just started them and will post the results.

I acquire cellulitis almost evey year during the months of March or April. I live in Tucson Arizona and have not been able to determine the cause.

my name is maria lorena and i hav cellulitus for many years at first i had so many lymphs that i could not walk i cryed various times i had fevers for two weeks straight of 106 and i had lot's of redness all over my legs felt like they wanted to burst but i gave up on the drugs and the hospital they were great don't get me gone they would just cut the fever but the celulitus kept on till i could not walk, i lost my job my husband part of my family and my hair my self asteme and my dignity as a human being got to the point where i could not sit in any chair neither walk or go no where and i could only lay in bed on one side and i was not a big eater either but i kept gaining weight and gaining and gaining till i got to five hundred pounds it took ten paramedics and firefighters to pick me up and put me in the ambulance i went threw hell i never got rid of it till a couple of months ago i met some people from amway global and there natural products and from there on i got my strengh i got my hair back i lost weight without being in a diet and now i'm still heavy but i did loose 250 pounds and still loosing i liked it so much that i became a amway executive and now i work for them and i have cured many people with all kinds of problems with either cellulitus or any other problem they are natural products they do not get you sick and now i got my dignity my life back my health and my family, i have no kids because of this cellulitus and i did loose my husband he left me because he could not take care of me he felt disgusted of me he would say that i was a monster and i even fell into depression anxiety for many years but now i don't have him but i'm back thanks to amway and nutrilite products, listen people if you really really care about your self and if you are sick and tired of hospitals and you are serious in getting your health back ask me how and i will help you god has gave me a chance of life after also being intubated for many things three times and god finally heard me and took me into the right direction and now i'm happy walking and smiling back so if you wat help or information about this e-mail me at nenaduenas1@yahoo.com or look into amway global into nutrilite and once you try it you will like it, works good and fast you can come out and enjoy life again and smile i know now what i wan't and i want to help people that want to be cured so please if you need a way out no matter where you are do e-mail me i will try to do my best to help like i said i was in the most grewsome sicknesses that you can ever imagine. there is hope and there is god so if you read this god bless you and please it's time to do something about it don't loose hope like i did once, there is more life for us. thankyou bye yours truly maria lorena duenas

I have cellulitus in my foot via a surgical procedure. The doctors who did the podiatric procedure just missed the problem. I ended up in ER with my foot swollen and red looking like it was about to start rotting off. Two weeks of antibiotics and 6 weeks since a simple procedure and my foot still leaks and hurts.

My four year old has cellulitis at the injection site of her vacination. Her sister also had the same thing happen twice when she was receiving her shots. The sister in between these two did not have this issue. I was told the site was dirty. It was not, as they were freshly showered and I watched the alcohol swab before the injection. The lab work is crazy. I am confused as to wether or not to continue with her other shots.

I have what they believe is cellulitis right now in my upper lip. I look like one of those Avatar characters or Angelina Jolie's offspring! It is incredibly painful (for which LorTab was prescribed) and the doctor is very concerned with how quickly the swelling has spread. This started as what looked like a small zit halfway between my nose and my upper lip, and within 12 hours, had swollen (from under my nose including my lip) to approximately 5-6 times it's normal size.

I was given an injection of antibiotics, a scrip for oral antibiotics, and "just in case it's a cold sore" (rolling my eyes), Zovirax. I also have to go back in the morning if the redness has spread (it has) for another injection of antibiotic, and if it doesn't turn it around and start healing, the doctor said there is a possibility of needing IV antibiotics.

This is NOT stuff to mess around with. If you suspect you may have cellulitis, get to a doctor immediately and get it treated.

I had Cellulitis at the back of my eye. I went to 4 hospitals and they all misdiagnosed the problem as conjunctivitis. The 5th hospital correctly diagnosed the problem as Orbital Cellulitis which can lead to blindness and even death.

I set up a website with the photos:

www.eyeinfectionphotos.com

Alan, I can relate and empathisize with your pain and suffering with a bout of cellulitis. I, too, suffered horribly with a severe case of it. Mine was in February 2008 and it is believe that it came about after being in the hospital (unrelated admission) and having an IV inserted into my hand. It was approximately a week after that admission that I became sick with what I thought was the flu, but then the severe pain in my hand and arm began and I made a trip to the ER, where I was immediately admitted and placed on three different IV antibiotics. My fever did not go as high as yours, but was still significant (103.6 up to 104.2) The pain was absolutely HORRIBLE - nothing would help. Even the doctors that treated me did not fully understand what was happening - I even had one doctor tell me that he had NEVER in all his years of practice seen anything like what my hand and arm looked like. A couple of doctors repeatedly asked me if I had burned myself because my hand looked similar to someone who had suffered third and fourth degree burns. I endured test after test, HORRIFIC hours of physical and occupational therapy that included whirlpool therapy (which, of course, induced almost unbearable pain). And of course, the unavoidable side effects of all those antibiotics (uncontrollable diarrhea and nausea/vomiting). I was finally released after over a week in the hospital, but had a visting nurse coming to the house twice a week to assess my progress and every other day trips to physical/occupational therapy to regain the proper use of my hand. Fortunately, I made a full recovery, with the slight exception that the skin on my affected hand has that look of a healed burn (wrinkled and not all one skin tone). I was definitely very lucky - was told after the fact that I could very well have died from this infection. Very scary, especially when you hear that the infection came about because of something that was actually done in a hospital setting.

Hi there, my four year old son fell & sprained his ankle, due to the redness & swelling it was determined he needed blood work for a possible infection. Blood work was done,we seen doctor after doctor, MRI done,seen more doctors, is ankle progressively got better however they insist that he has cellulitis due to slightly elevated levels of reactive protein were 4.3,where normal is 0.3 & can be in the 80's. He has had no fever what so ever,it has been 5 days & the redness & swelling are almost gone,with only some bruising remaining. I have not given him the antibiotics that they have prescribed & I am leery as to if I should? I want to take him to a different hospital & have is blood levels checked again & a second opinion. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,Misty
Yes this is scary!

revised by adding a sentence is underlined, I submitted this experience a few minutes ago.

I had Cellulitis Dec 2008 in my legs, and by the time I realized what was happening, it felt like the flesh in my legs was filled with thousands of pieces of ground up glass. Walking was horrible, and as a 350 lb man dying of Multiple Sclerosis I had the worst time walking down the stairs to the waiting ambulance, where other rescue squads in Denver were prepared to handle a patient my size, this one wasn't. I don't overeat, or eat anything really, but when you go from being a svelt exercise machine to bed bound, every crumb of food I put in my body is turned to fat, I eat less than 400 calories a day in the form of a yogurt cup, or FiberOne cereal, and a fish oil capsule serving because I have severe hypoglycemia and low blood pressure. The pain was so unbearable my neighbors heard me screaming for hours, by the time I entered the ER I was almost immediately connected to a pain pump I could push when I needed more pain controlling narcotic. I will remember the pain more than anything. One day everything seemed normal, and in the course of one day flu like symptoms quickly escalated and worsened, until what seemed like "in the blink of an eye," I was regretting not filling out my living will. They said I almost died, when I got to the hospital I had such high fever of 107 I was hallucinating and suffering in spite of high dose dilaudid, methadone, and valium brought no relief whatsoever. I had to have bags of IV antibiotics changed 5 times a day, in addition to oral antibiotics, I was in the hospital 6 days, and endured much tests, pain, etc. Tests revealed two organisms which infected my blood as well, but they kept avoiding to answer my questions about that, I still don't know much about the blood infection, they kept asking me about my cat, he sometimes breaks my skin when walking on me. I do not have any other transmitted diseases. Everything I find to read about this disease just fails in my opinion to help me understand it any better. This is scary stuff.

I had Cellulitis before in my legs, and by the time I realized what was happening, it felt like the flesh in my legs was filled with thousands of pieces of ground up glass. Walking was horrible, and as a 350 lb man dying of Multiple Sclerosis I had the worst time walking down the stairs to the waiting ambulance, where other rescue squads in Denver were prepared to handle a patient my size, this one wasn't. I don't overeat, or eat anything really, but when you go from being a svelt exercise machine to bed bound, every crumb of food I put in my body is turned to fat, I eat less than 400 calories a day in the form of a yogurt cup, or FiberOne cereal, and a fish oil capsule serving because I have severe hypoglycemia and low blood pressure. The pain was so unbearable my neighbors heard me screaming for hours, by the time I entered the ER I was almost immediately connected to a pain pump I could push when I needed more pain controlling narcotic. I will remember the pain more than anything. One day everything seemed normal, and in the course of one day flu like symptoms quickly escalated and worsened, until what seemed like "in the blink of an eye," I was regretting not filling out my living will. They said I almost died, when I got to the hospital I had such high fever of 107 I was hallucinating and suffering in spite of high dose dilaudid, methadone, and valium brought no relief whatsoever. I had to have bags of IV antibiotics changed 5 times a day, in addition to oral antibiotics, I was in the hospital 6 days, and endured much tests, pain, etc. Everything I find to read about this disease just fails in my opinion to help me understand it any better. This is scary stuff.