Cellulitus 4th Time

Went to Doctor yesterday left forearm swollen and red again. He looks at it sends me to trauma room and lances it. He says it is abscessed. I know one thing, It sure hurts after the Novocaine wore off. He said it was something that started with an M.
Ron

I've had it 4/5 times too, they check me for diabetes every time but nope. Just bad immune system I guess.

MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus)?

If he said that without taking a culture, he was being very irresponsible.

He did take a culture to be sure of his diagnosis.
Ron

Just a bad damn bug, and they're running out of stuff to swat it with. My daughter had outbreaks for a year and a half before it finally went away. We still get nervous anytime she gets a red spot on her body.

They are creating these antibiotic resistant germs in the laboratory and then they get loose (maybe on purpose). You have heard about the e-coli outbreaks? This is not the normal e-coli that everyone has in their gut. It is super strong e-coli that has been created in laboratories. They then use the super strong e-coli to cut and splice genes so they can make the new (evil) genetic modified crops and organisms. I have a article that tells how you can make some yourself. There are evil people in this world that think there are too many people in this world. They want to reduce the population of the whole world.
Have you noticed all the new diseases, like aids, lime disease. west nile disease and others? They were all created in labs.

(quoted from post at 05:45:41 07/16/11) Went to Doctor yesterday left forearm swollen and red again. He looks at it sends me to trauma room and lances it. He says it is abscessed. I know one thing, It sure hurts after the Novocaine wore off. He said it was something that started with an M.
Ron

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I had that "M" stuff 2 years ago if that's what he's referring to as MRSA. Started off as a boil looking thing on my knee. Hurt so bad just my shorts rubbing up against it hurt. Called off work and went to the Dr. on a Monday (it had been growing about 5 days). I just figured it was an infected hair, metal sliver, etc. Doc looked at it and said it looked like MRSA. Take Bactrum and Doxicyclene for 2 weeks and you should be fine. Doxi makes me nauseas as it turns out, and you really don't want to be in the sun. Hurt so bad I called off work the next day. Went to work on Wed in agonizing pain, limping, and sweating in my chair.

Thursday, I went to work until about 9am when I called my real doc and said I think my MRSA is getting worse. He took one look at it and sent me to the hospital for IV Antibiotics. Vancomyacin, I think they called it.

They X-rayed the knee to at 8pm to see if it had spread to the joint and it hadn't yet. Told me the orthopedic surgeon would be in in about 2 hours, lance it open, clean it out and hopefully be on the way to recovery. Told me they'd give my Vicadin for pain. I told the Nurse that Vikes make me puke, I'd rather have about anything else. Long story short, I shoulda puked all over their room. The doc came in at 10pm right on schedule. Shot a few rounds of Lidacaine in there and began cutting and pushing and squeezing and more cutting. Even with the lidacaine, it was very painful. The lidacaine wore off about 10:15... No pain meds. They apparently couldn't get ahold of the Dr that wrote the initial prescription for Vikes. I politely asked for anything else. They 'were working on it". By 11:00pm, I called the nurse and asked if they were having any luck, I was reall hurting. By 11:15, I had sweat rolling down my forehead and tears in my eyes. Called them again and said I was really hurting. Called them again at 11:30 and told them I was tired of asking, get me a charge nurse now. She came in and says, "how can I help you" as if she had no idea what was wrong.

I looked at her and said, "Look, I've been here since 6pm. You've stuck an IV in my right arm, missed the vein, pumped the fluid in anyways to the point where my forearm was visibly swollen and looked like Popeye. The nurse gave me an icepack, pulled the needle out never came back. Then you sent another nurse in to put the IV in my left arm. She missed that vein too and didn't bother trying again. I've got a hole in my knee big enough to stick my thumb in, I've received no pain killers, or the miracle antibiotic that I came here to get, and I can barely tolerate the pain. I've asked 5 times for painkillers and you couldn't even get me a Tylenol. How the F do you think I am? I don't care if you have to get the Hospital administrator in here, I need something to help with the pain."

So she left. Near as I can figure, I blacked out around 11:45ish. I was awakened about midnight (must have been shift change) to have some woman washing the top of my hand. Just before she stuck me, I woke up and asked who she was - some sort of manager. Then she said she had something for pain (Delaudid, I think they called it...) Nighty nite. It got better from there. They finally got some drugs in me.

When my doc came to look at me 2 days later on Sat, it was having little effect and they were afraid it was going to go sceptic (that's where it spreads to the blood and you stand a good chance of going to the morgue).

They doubled the dosage from *1000mg twice a day), to (1500mg 3 times a day) and it started working. I went home on Monday eve (got there on Thursday).

I've had a couple more bouts with it - although I've learned to catch it early and avoided the hospital. The bad thing is that now I've become allergic to the "Bactrum", it's a Sulfa drug and I start itching and get covered in a million little red rash dots that eventually blend into one big rash covering everything from my waist up.

I could post some pics of the knee, but they are pretty disgusting.

Here's the deal with MRSA: It's "just another" staph infection, except it has acquired resistance to the most commonly used antibiotics. That said, the doctor had no business saying it is MRSA until the culture results come back. It could be some other staph infection, or possibly not a staph infection at all.

I've been fighting Cellulitis for the past 4yrs in both lower legs. It took a Doc 2yrs just to spot what it was. It wasn't that I was not seeing Doctors trying to find what it was, it was the Doctors not knowing what Cellulitis is.

Since then I've in the hospital two times and getting ready for my 3rd visit since Nov 2010 for Vancomyacin IV antibiotics. I'm getting about 3mths rest between hospital visits using Doxycycline at home.

Now I have some kind of fungal infection on top of the Cellulitis that Itch's like crazy. Foot powder spay helps with that. The heavy flow of fluid I'm draining out of my legs don't help either.

Then on top of that I'm diabetic all of a sudden. Sure will be glad when things calm down to a dull roar again.

T_Bone

(quoted from post at 03:32:21 07/17/11) Here's the deal with MRSA: It's "just another" staph infection, except it has acquired resistance to the most commonly used antibiotics. That said, the doctor had no business saying it is MRSA until the culture results come back. It could be some other staph infection, or possibly not a staph infection at all.

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ark, I would be interested in knowing your certification, in "just another staph." I was under the impression that staph was dreaded due to difficulty to treat successfully.

Showcrop, I am a Certified Internet Troll (CIT). What other qualifications does one need to practice internet medicine?

Fact is, staph bacteria is all over the place. On your skin, up your nose and on every surface you touch. Unless you have a weakened immune system, your body fights off staph infections all the time. Every little scratch or cut is a potential staph infection, because the stuff is everywhere.

By definition, the only difference between a MRSA infection and any other staph infection is the way it must be treated. All staph infections are indeed serious, but most respond to common antibiotics. The problem with MRSA is that doctors will sometimes try to treat it with antibiotics without first running a culture to make sure what it is. Google it.