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How Can Painful And Itchy Carbuncle Be Treated?

Hi! My nam is Tara. I am 37,weigh 140 lbs., and need answers. In early February I broke out on my back and neck with large red painful, what I would call, boil. I thought I was having a reaction to a medication I was on for bronchitis and that it would disappear once I finished the medication, but it did not. I went to my general doctor in April complaining they were extremely painful and itchy. She thought it looked like folliculitis and put me on an antibiotic. They did not clear up. I then took augmentin, still not cleared up. I have also been on doxycycline and minocycline, 100 mg a day. Neither have worked. It is now mid-May and I am not clearing up. I am extremely worried about scarring as summer approaches. What do you suggest?
Wed, 23 Jul 2014
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How Can Painful And Itchy Carbuncle Be Treated?