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So I spent most of the day today in Urgent Care. Three days ago, I noticed that the lymph node on my right side was swollen and tender. I've never had this happen before from colds or any sort of sickness, so I was a little worried, but my mom who I've been visiting the last month caught the sickness a couple weeks, so I thought maybe it was just my body fighting it off (with the aid of the vax).
The next day, I noticed the swelling was still there, as well as a little addition to it in my face, sort of behind my cheek bone area. Starting to panic a little more, I took an Allegra and a paracetamol and iced and hot packed the area throughout the day as it was tender and turning my head to the left hurt some.
Well this morning I woke up with a nodule on my neck. I went into full anxiety mode, thinking of all the things it could be (my dad died when I was young so I had all those sorts of things running through my head). Went to the hospital and waited for my turn -3 hours- and told the doc what was going on.
He did his check and started asking about all my piercings. I have an industrial bar and three lobe piercings on one side, and an upper cartilage, inner cochlear, and three lobe piercings on the right, so I thought he was just making small talk. I had gotten new studs for the top lobes last week, and admittedly they were cheap from Target, but I've never had a problem with cheap earrings beside a few crusties here and there that go away quickly enough. Turns out that the earrings gave me a horrible infection and the swelling and nodule was my body trying to drain the infection. I'm now on a ten day course of strong antibiotics because he said it was quite bad and would likely have turned into a staph I fection in a few more days.
TL;DR: Nearly gave myself a staph infection from crappy earrings and from now on, only stainless steel or sterling silver will be touching my ears.
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