ENT called and said my nasal culture revealed I have serratia. He said it’s common for chronic sinus patients, and I’ve never really considered myself to be one until I needed sinus surgery this summer due to nasal polyps.

After reading about serratia online, I’m kind of freaked out. The ENT made is sound like no big deal. He called in an antibiotic (Bactrim) and said to definitely take it.

I told him that since my appointment last week, I’m feeling 90%+ and almost perfectly healthy. He said definitely take the antibiotic so the serratia can be knocked out.

But I’m reading online once you get it, it never goes away? And can lead to endocarditis?

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Posted by NewOrleansBlend

Member since Mar 2008

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Posted on 12/12/23 at 5:32 pm to StringedInstruments

Trust your doctor more and google less. It’s a very common cause of infections and is almost always easily treated and cured with a course of antibiotics. You don’t need to be concerned with endocarditis, you would have to be septic for that to even be a possibility and even then it’s very rare. Im not sure where you even read about what you have being incurable, that’s completely untrue. Maybe there are a few strains of serratia floating around hospital ICU’s that are resistant to every or almost every antibiotic, but they are not in the community.

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Posted by LSUandAU

Key West, FL & Malibu (L.A.), CA

Member since Apr 2009

5164 posts

Posted on 12/13/23 at 8:12 pm to StringedInstruments

A doctor diagnosed me once with "Goggleitis." The internet shows you the worst scenarios....try to avoid reading. Do as the doc says and intake the diet and pills the docs recommend.

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