There is a swelling above both ears, from the temple to the base of the neck, in line. The swelling began approximately one month age when i noticed jaw pain to the muscle to my left side. I went to the doctor and i was percribed an antibiotic for possible infection. at this time it was only minor swelling and jaw muscle pain. I also had no fever or elevated white blood cell count or a sedrate factor indicating that i had swelling. Two days later i was back in the doctors office and he wanted a cat scan being that i appeasred to have cheeked an orange, the swelling was bad. I physically felt great but i had pain in my jaw muscle, was the only adverse effect. went for scan and it found sinus infection, cellulitus, and an abcess in the muscle in the temple. I was admitted into ICU for six days, getting a high dose of antibiotics the whole time. While there, the cheek swelling went away,(cellulitus) but the pain in the head moved from my jaw to my temples and across my head to the other side. I asked and asked to no avail. Later went for a week follow up and my doc sent me to an EENT to check me out then to an Infectious disease specialist, then to a rumatologist, and now to a nerologist on the fifth of Febuary, (nearly a month from now.) I also have an MRI scheduled for this friday to rule out a brain tumor, i guess even though there is not a symptom one. After the antibiotics i developed a serious case of muscle pain with stiffness. this was all through my body, but only in certain places, like in my thigh it was just down the front of my leg and down the inside back of my calf. In the arm it was similar, across the inside edge of the bicept and across the top of the forarm and consumed the hands. my lats were stiff and sore. I walked like an eighty year old man with crippling arthritus. I am 38 years old with a job in a lumber mill as the mechanic to the mill equiptment. I have normal aches and pains but this is not normal. I am now getting over the diability of muscle pain but still have the original swelling in the head. Both sides are swollen equal and the muscles seem to be below the swelling that is a puffiness. the swelling is now atop my head some, though not as pronounced as the temple areas.
Please someone help....This is painful and is damaging me emotionally as a person. The next step is to go to a Mayo clinic in Missourri, if there is nothing found with the MRI. (Note I live in Indiana not where the clinic is.)
Stop with antibiotics. They are a killer. They caused me to get giant cell arteritis which is a disease of the carotid arteries to the head and brain. Doctors just give out meds like it's candy. You are in crisis and they will try every med in the book until you are nearly drowning from them. Run, do not walk, to your nearest homeopathic or naturepathic doctor. Stop eating anything with gluten, and GMO's. I am not a crackpot. I've been there, done that and believe me, the AMA is out to sell their drugs and people are victims of their greed.