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I am terrified; just found out I have MRSA. Need advice from anyone who may have had this.....

Posted: Mar 15, 2011

I have no idea how I got it. Started out as a pimple on my elbow and morphed into something else! Went to urgent care and today got results...it's MRSA staph. The thing is, it's on the way to being cleared up now (after taking Keflex) but doctor said I need to follow up with Infectious Disease! That scares me to death! I know people can die from this. Leave it to this germophone to get this! --(which is what everyone calls me....i wash my hands constantly, carry germ gel and use the lysol wipes on shopping carts but that didn't help me this time--) .

So the only way I can think of that I could have gotten it was from a surgery I had 8 months ago. I have to assume that is how I got it, but why would it take so long to show up? And I guess it really doesn't matter HOW I got it, I GOT IT.

I am beside myself. I'm already stressed to my breaking point....too many stressful things (as a lot of us have, not just me)....but my mom was recently diagnosed with dementia (had to move back in with her), my doxie Oskar is still paralyzed after hurting his back and they say surgery is not an option, not to mention my brother is in Japan and we haven't heard from him yet. ..... Now this on top of everything.

I am hoping someone who has had this before and recovered can give me hope. Is it pretty much a death sentence (since it is prob hospital acquired) or is it possible to fully recover? I know being stressed isn't helping things, and I'm working on that, but if I could hear from someone who has been thru this or knows of someone who got it and got completely better, I'll feel a bit more reliieved. I'm worried I'll end up in the hospital with bills I can't afford...or WORSE.......

;

Calm down...my cousin had this and her son - anonymouse

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My cousin started out with some sort of bump on her foot. It like yours morphed into something else more. Her foot became swollen and it was oozing fluid out of it. It came back as MRSA. Actually, this wasn't the first time she had it. She also had it on her breast too. Basically she had to take lots of antibiotics and her spot of it was like a boil and had to be lanced to drain all the yucky stuff out of it. Then she went and had the wound cleaned about once a week for a few weeks and hasn't been bothered since. Her son had it too and he took antibiotics and it went away. I don't think his required any lancing.
Just calm down...this is not something that you won't recover from. Oh also, my nephew had it too. He took antibiotics and it went away. My cousin, her son and my nephew are as good as new now. It is far from a death sentence as long as you have it treated. You will fully recover like any other infection. None of the ones I knew that had it ended up in the hospital. It is a serious infection if not treated, but as long as this is treated you should be just fine.

Something people don't think about or possibly even - know is that sm

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impetigo for the most part is an MRSA infection. We know what that is, and it's not a big deal, but we freak out when we hear MRSA or staph. I can't remember what percentage the doctor I used to work for told me about abscesses, but a huge portion of them are staph. My son has had it on his hinny. This can be pretty common in kids. Staph is kind of naturally around, so all it requires is an opening to get in.

If I were you, I wouldn't worry too much and take the antibiotics. If they did a C&S, it would have shown up any antibiotics that the staph may have been resistent to and the best ones to treat with. I would make sure if the place doesn't get better or you get more that you go back to your clinic.

You did not get it from an 8th month old surgery - sm - ITNMT

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You are exposed to Staph every day of your life, no way around that unless you live in a plastic bubble. Your pimple just got infected, simple as that. Friend of mine got it by cutting herself while cutting up chicken, horrible infection, took lots of antibiotics and trips to the doctor for debriding and packing, she has recovered fine and she had it much worse than what you have from the sounds of it. She was in horrible pain and totally incapacitated by it. Its when you don't treat it or wait to long when it will can turn deadly. Unless you have some pre-existing health conditions or an immunosuppression problem you will heal fine. Just do everything the doctors tell you and in a couple weeks you will be all healed up, no need to overreact and be convinced you are going to die.

been there - send me an email if you want

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I survived a 13-day ICU stay, 105 temperature, failing kidneys. A very long recovery, but it isn't a death sentence if you get medical care quickly, as you have done. The ID doc may put you on Zyvox, which is the cutting-edge drug for MRSA (so I was told). Don't panic or faint when you get to the pharmacy and they tell you the drug costs about $3000 for a 10-day supply. Call the number for Pfizer, and they will give you the information to get it for free that same day.

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