I fired my ENT!!!!!!  I found one that wanted to help me!!!!!

wow this sounds a lot like what I have been going through for the last year and a half.   Two ENT and a general practitioner and I am worse today then when I started.

I told all of them I feel better on cephlexon (antibiotic) but they all say nothing is there.   None took a culture, one did take a cat scan, nothing there.

Yet here I sit with migraines, earaches, swollen glands, facial pain and now the cephlexon isn't working as good as it did.   Sure it probably wasn't the right antibiotic to start with.

Sorry to vent I know there are many here who are far worse then me and I am so sorry for that.   Its just very frustrating, where do you turn.

Melanie - melanie@...
To err is human - to forgive canine.

----- Original Message -----

From: drstroutslayer

To: helpsinuses@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:57 AM

Subject: [helpsinuses] Re: Chronisc bacterial infection after FESS ***UPDATE***

I fired my ENT!!!!!!  I found one that wanted to help me!!!!!
He immediately ran a CULTURE and ordered a "Post-Op" C-Scan.
Guess what? I have had a STAPH infection since surgery (3 1/2 months
ago)!
Tree different Docs have had me take 100 Augmentin pills, 21 Avelox
pills,
two rounds of Prednisone, and numerous decons, sprays and antihist
pills! NOT ONE of these three knuckleheads offered to take a
culture or do a "post-op" C-Scan. This strain of Staph is RESISTANT
to 13 different antibiotics, to include the two I have been NUKING
my body with!!! My new ENT is actually sending my culture results
to the CDC for their review and data gathering purposes. I will know
in a week if I am a candidate for intravenious antibiotics. Pills for
now.
I am sooooo damn MAD!!!! I know this is not nearly as serious
as some of the posts that I have read on these boards, and thank God
for that, BUT, I still think I have been grossly wronged and
neglected by these people that I HIRED to heal me, and, therefore
intend to
sue them if I can find an attorney who thinks I have a case!
Good luck to all of you. Fight,and don't give up!

Will keep you all posted on further developements.


--- In helpsinuses@yahoogroups.com, "drstroutslayer

<drstroutslayer@y...>" <drstroutslayer@y...> wrote:

> I never knew there were so many sinus weary

> people out there. God bless you all.

>

> My name is David and I am new to the group. I am
> also new to this level of sinus problems. I hope
> it will soon end before it gets any closer to some
> of the posts I read (I read them all).
>
> In Oct. 02, I had what I think was a bacterial sinus
> infection. I got overzealous with the irrigating and
> blew water right into my eustacian tubes. I went to the
> Doc, and after two rounds of augmentin 875 didn't clear
> my ears, he sent me to an ENT.
>
> The ENT ordered a C Scan, and it showed 2 polyps, and one
> closed Frontal or Ethmoid sinus. He told me that if I waited
> on surgery I would most likely have future problems, and the
> FESS would likely open my ears.
>
> In Nov. 02 I had the FESS. I went through 14 days of Augmentin
> 875 after surgery. A week after I finished the antibiotic,
> I woke up in the middle of the night with what appeared
> to be very yellow "Malt-o-Meal" or Yellow "ketchup" dripping
> out of my nose and onto my bedsheets. This was an infection
> that I had never in my life experienced. It was not the classic
> sticky, yucky mucous, it was runny, with a gritty looking
> texture. I guess this is the classic "PUS", which I had never
> seen. I also noticed that my eyeballs had began to hurt
> in the last few days, like they were under pressure and would

> possibly blow up if the pressure were to increase.
>
> I went back to the ENT, and as he was attemting to go in with
> an endoscope, said,"yes, you need a little extra". He put me on
> 10 days of Augmentin. After 10 days, the sinus cleared, but
> the eyes hurt a little and the ears never totally cleared, but
> almost. Within a week, it was coming back, so I began to eat
> Drixorall in an attempt to dry it up and kill it. FORGET IT!
> After 4 more days, and all facial bones were breaking, I went
> back to him. He told me it was probably not bacterial because
> he sees no pus, and he just couldn't keep giving me antibiotics,
> and I needed to go see an allergist. Three days later, I called him
> and tried to make an appointment to show him some "PUS". Instead of
> this,he called in a 10 day supply of Augmentin 500. The 500
> never killed the infection. It just kept it from getting worse.
> Two days prior to finishing the Augmentin 500, I saw an Allergist.
> The Allergist said he, you'll never guess, of course, he said
> he thought the infection was brought on by allergic attacks to
> something. So, the allergist put me on a broader spectrum
> MOXIFLOXACIN 400 mg/ 1 daily for 21 days. I have 6 left, and
> the pain is just now fading in the sinuses, and my eyes still
> hurt, but less than they did. My ears have opened again, but
> still making clicking noises. I have an appointment tomorrow
> with a new ENT, and I have discussed possibly using intravaneous
> antibiotics with his office staff. They said more and more
> people are doing this a few weeks before and after surgery.
>
> My opinion is that I contracted this MEAN infection from my
> ENT's surgical instruments, and each time it never quite gets out
of
> my eyes or ears, and reinfects my sinuses. He is well known
> in the community as an excellent surgeon, specializing in FESS.
> He acted very beffuddled that I was returning with this
> infection. Oh, by the way, I did ask him about getting a
> culture, and he said they were not really necessary, as there
> are only about 3 types of bacterial infections.
> I am hoping it is a case of excellent surgeon, poor microbial Dr.
> He acts like he doesn't want to do anything that might show
> that it was his fault.



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