I think I am in trouble

[NancyDA]

If there is any way you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.  I am 53 yo woman, generally vigorous and healthy, but with some nagging sinus/adenoid problems.  I have GERD, early Hashimotos, high cholesterol and rare and mild asthma.  Two weeks ago I came down with what I thought was a viral illness.  I had pain behind my nose (adenoids, probably) and felt bad.  Low grade fever, 99.9.  My baseline temp is 97.7.  I saw my internist on Monday who put me on OMNICEF.  I started to get better, but 3 days later my temperature jumped up to 102.6.  I felt like I was on deaths door step with back pain.  She changed me to Levaquin and told me if my fever did not stop by Saturday that I should go to the hospital to be admitted.  The fever remained and so I went in.  In the ER they did a cbc (normal) rapid strep and plated strep (both normal) Flu test (normal) No IV fluids or antibiotics.  My doctors instructions were to admit me.  They did, and I was followed by hospital staff.  They ordered all kinds of tests like arterial doplers, cardiac echos, blood work.  Almost all the blood work kept coming back except sed raters and C-reactive protein...69 and 70 respectively.  Meanwhile, my nose was almost completely occluded.  On the second night there a mucus plug almost the size and shape of a Hershey's Kiss came out of the back of my soft palate.  It was hard yellow, tinged with blood.  This happened two times.  The second one I aspirated and somehow expelled.  I had the nurse send it to the lab, where they only cultured it for TB??  which was negative.  After that mucus came out my fever started to come down, and has stayed down.  I was discharged to the ENT who scoped my nose and said my adenoids were enlarged (pressing on my eustachian tubes, reason why I heard this white noise sound) and *****.  He told me to stay on the LEVAQUIN and irrigate my nose with salt water as often as possible.  I did this and the mucus cleared up a lot.  This was Tuesday Nov 6.  I noticed, at home, I had this pain in my elbow and there was a pink spot on it.  It looked like cellulitis to me and was above where they had put in an IV.  I put heat on it for hours and it went away, but I have a painful lymph node in my arm pit of the same arm.  Today I saw infectious disease who were totaly nonplus about any of this.  She also found another lab from the hospital that showed I had an elevated ANA (but no titer result yet).  She decided that must be my problem and sent me on my way.  I also went back to the ENT for a follow up and he said my nose was clearing up (no scope this time) and to continue on the LEVAQUIN.  This was all good news until this evening when I woke from sleep to hawk out another bloody.\, large mass of gelatinous mucus from behind my nose.  Not quite as large as the first, but almost.  I don't understand why I don't have a postive cbc with all this infection in my nose.  It is making the docs not want to treat me any further.  I think LEVAQUIN is the wrong antibiotic.  It doesn't seem to be doing anything.  I am allergic to sulfa, erythromycin and amoxy.  To top things off I feel VERY ILL.  I can't make it through the day without sleep, can't drive to the grocery or walk around much.  I am very concerned that this infection is going unchecked. The only other bit of useful information I have is that I got sick in July.  I had similar but small amounts of golden, bloody mucus from behind my adenoids.  I was give Omnicef.  It didn't improve the problem.  At that time I went to the ENT who cultured my adenoids and he found a small growth of H. Influenza.  He put me on Doxycycline which I felt GREAT on.  Three days after stopping the mucus was back.  He had also given me a cup to bring in a sample for culture if it should reappear.  In early Sept I did just that.  I never went to get the results.  The mucus continued to wax and wane but I never got sick.  I went and picked up the results when I first got sick and the culture showed HEAVY GROWTH OF H. INFLUENZA.   This was never treated, and the ID person didn't care much about it.   I am trying to follow up with my Rheumatologist.  My gut feeling is my problem lies with the H. Influenza.   Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  

[NancyDA]

Another thing I failed to mention is that I had a lot of yeast growing in my mouth from all the antibiotics.  I have taken Mycelex and this seems to be going away.

[mohair3]

I know it has been 10 years, but I wonder what diagnosis you were eventually given with those symptoms. I have a positive ANA and lots of sinus issues but not always spitting up green, although it feels like I have an infection.