Hello, I've had a chronic ear infection for years. Each time I am swabbed it comes back positive for staphylococcus aureus. I have received two rounds of oral antibiotics (clarithromycin) and antibiotic ear drops.
Each time it's like being treated with placebo. My symptoms don't improve and I continue to test positive.
My GP or nurse who responded to me today is trying to fob me off saying it's easy to become re-infected with staph and it's probably eczema.
I think it might be MRSA but they say the type of infection is sensitive to the prescribed antibiotics so cannot be MRSA. Is this true? How do I push to get better answers? Is it possible to find out if this could be MRSA? If it is then I could receive alternative treatments that might finally kill it!