Question: Redness and Swelling around left eye area

For the past month, I have had this bizarre area of redness and some swelling around my left eye. It starts right below the eye bag area and extends up towards my temple. It was extremely swollen and red when it first began, so I went to an emergicare and like me they made the assumption it was an allergic reaction to something. I was then prescribed Atarax for 10 days and Prednisone 40 mg for 2 days, 30 mg for 2 days, 20 mg for 2 days, and 10 mg for 2 days. It helped some, but the redness and swelling persisted.

I then went to a dermatologist who prescribed Loquid cream, he did an XXXXXXX blood test (came back negative), a fungal test (also negative). The Loquid didn;t work so he gave me a Kenalog-40 injection in my hip, desonide ointment, and amoxicillin. None of this worked either, so he gave me mehtylprednisolone for 6 days again with no real improvement.

I'm at a loss of what to do here. My girlfriend thinks I have rosacea, but I don't think so.

What is this? I feel like I've hit a wall with all of my current doctors. Should I go to a hospital?

By the way, I'm 28 with mild, intermittent acne, so my first suspicion was that it was a cyst of some sort, but al of the doctors denied that.

Hi,

It isn't itchy at all or too painful. The best way to describe how it feels is slightly swollen as though someone punched me in the face or something. No other symptoms either .

I looked up the two conditions you describe and they don't quite seem to be what I have going on here.I did recently move when this all started, which is what led the doctors to believe it was an allergy, but this could be incidental. A month long reaction would be pretty rare, right?

Thanks for your help. I'm seeing the dermatologist again today.