I’m 56 ( naturally not pregnant or breastfeeding ) and have somehow contacted breast cellulitis .
it started with a small nipple discharge and a soreness at the end of my breast so I saw my GP Sunday morning . I was give flucloxacillin by Monday it was spreading and I started feeling unwell - flu like , shivers , tired .
my insurance covered me to go a breast clinic at a local private hospital where they were amazing and changed the antibiotics to augmentin . I’ve now had 3 doses of the augmentin over almost 24 hours but the infection is still slowly spreading , slowly being the word . It’s ever so slight . I would have thought though that the augmentin would at least have stopped the further spread even if it took a few days to reverse it .
This is complicated by the fact that I’ve had a urine infection for a while initially treated by nitrofurantin but then be cephalixin whrn the nutrofurantin didn’t quite get rid of it . Even after the cephalexin I still had signs of the infection so on Friday they told me to start nitrofurantin again which I did . It started to work but today the urine infection symptoms are coming back .
im so frightened as I seem to have two infections and am scared something bad is happening .
pls talk me down and reassure me that antibiotics take a while to stop the infection spreading and that I shouldn’t panic . Please