I feel that the Mumps are overshadowing another illness, what do you think I should do?

Here I am a nurse but I am not familiar with ENT issues, the Mumps, or infectious disease. Any health professionals want to offer advice?

I was diagnosed with strep throat on April 14, on April 17th I was diagnosed with peritonsular cellulitis and abscess. On April 27th I was diagnosed with the Mumps.

I feel as if my Mumps symptoms are gone, no more swelling. My tonsils are normal sized but the area that I had the abscess is hurting quite bad. I would rate it a 6 out of 10. I have narcots prescribed and they are not doing anything for the pain. I am on my third antibiotic and I am not feeling better. I am not allowed into the ENT clinic to have my throat looked at as I had dealth with this today. I am in isolation due to the mumps till next Sat. When I talked to the ENT nurse today she said my pain is from the mumps. I think that my mumps diagnosis is preventing me from getting appropriate care for the abscess, what do you think?

It is quite possible that you have another abscess in your tonsils, but if you have been diagnosed with peritonsilar cellulitis, I imagine that that would be quite painful. Think about the people you've seen with cellulitis on their arms and legs. Red, swollen, and hot are the words that come to mind for me. Did they culture your abscesses to see what organisms are growing? Are they treating you with specific antibiotics to fight those organisms or with broad spectrum stuff? I hope all the antibiotics don't give you C. diff.

see a doctor and get him to send you to a specialtist

I think your right! Go to another doctor about the abscess. That needs to be addressed right away, and the narcs will only work to a certain extent. I would go to another doctor and let them know what's going on. You can't be in isolation from the doctors so get help and get checked. You probably had the vacc. for mumps, right? So your case was more than likely mild but get in and get help. Sorry to hear about the luck - that's just a horrible couple of weeks. Take care!!

I don't know about all of your health problems but I wanted to say that I had the mumps very badly as a kid (I know its got to be even worse as an adult) and the mumps caused alot of problems and pain even after the swelling was gone. I got an infection from the mumps at the time that I had them and had to have surgery. The mumps can be pretty serious. I'd give it til Saturday on the medications before seeking a followup unless you start showing symptoms of something more like a high fever, redness or a bad rash, etc. If the symptoms you currently have don't get worse, give it til Saturday.