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dems4me
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Sheardelight said:
How do you know she had it? Or was she just guessing she had the worse possible scenario? :shrug: Did she tell you what she was taking for it? That may help narrow it down some :shrug:
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How do you know she had it? Or was she just guessing she had the worse possible scenario? :shrug: Did she tell you what she was taking for it? That may help narrow it down some :shrug:
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dems4me said:
Well we suspected she had it and told her to immediately go to the hospital which she did, and she called us later to cofirm that she did indeed have it. I heard it originated in calvert from a wrestling team at one of the local high schools.
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Sheardelight said:
I think it originated everywhere from a staph bacteria and not being properly taken care of with antibiotics (stopped taking too soon, etc..) and their became a strain that is resistant now to most antibiotics. It's all over the world at this point and has been aruond I think since early 1990s. What I don't understand is how she can have it, and have it be a MRSA infection no less but not near death?
Where was it located? The reason I ask and its not much of a secret is because I've had MRSA myself. I had half my thyroid removed in early March in Calvert this year and within 24-48 hours I was COMPLETELY succumbed to a MRSA infection in that area and was on highpowered antibiotics (vancomycen) by IV, I was hooked up to hospital via IV for about 4 days getting rid of it.
I had huge swelling in my neck from the infection, soo much it had pushed my trachea over and I had a tracheotomy kit near my bed at all times during my hospital recovery from this, they ended up opening my neck back up and irrigating it directly and doing a culture. After I was eventually released and coming back to life, I was told it was MRSA Heavy staff growth - culture read "**** THIS IS MRSA**** HEAVY GROWTH****" I was closely followed up on for the next few months and released with a good 2000MG a day between two more antibiotics for A LONG TIME.
I can safely say I'm 100% MRSA free. But it almost killed me, so I wasn't sure how she can be up walking around and about and "think maybe its MRSA". Obviously if hospital says it is, it is, but I don't understand how some can be life threatening and some can't :shrug: I just know mine was really, really bad, and I have some witnesses to it, I don't remember ALOT of peices during all of this. I was really out of it. Definately not out going to beauty shops and all
Good luck with your friend, if she wants someone to talk to, pm me and I'll give you me email address and phone number. She must be going through alot right now and having lots of fears and questions. I'm here if she wants to talk with someone that's gone through what she's going through.
Sheardelight
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river rat said:Unitl they gave you that head scan in ER huh?
she originally thought she had a really bad case of poison ivy. when she showed us her leg we immediately knew it was something worse than that, it looked absolutely horrible. I wouldnt wish that on anyone.
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to whomever sent me the message about the wrestlers..I wasnt trying to say anything bad about wrestlers. I'm just saying when I first heard about this being in the area I heard it was contracted by a wrestling team in the area. Get over yourself.
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dems4me
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Sheardelight said:
Had she recently undergone surgery? If not than what she has is CA-MRSA (community acquired). I received a krama or two from other folks that know people that had it too and had recent surgery at Calvert. The important thing is, you have to remain super vigiliant and clean and keep washing your hands. Handwashing in general is VERY important. I can't believe how many people DONT wash their hands often.
BTW, how could she have mistaken it with poisen ivy? It doesn't itch :shrug: Did she have the pimple and boil kind? Recent surgery somewhere?
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You can get it by having any opening on your skin. It could be a hangnail.dems4me said:Had she recently undergone surgery? If not than what she has is CA-MRSA (community acquired). I received a krama or two from other folks that know people that had it too and had recent surgery at Calvert. The important thing is, you have to remain super vigiliant and clean and keep washing your hands. Handwashing in general is VERY important. I can't believe how many people DONT wash their hands often.
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kwillia said:
Yes, I agree, thats why its important to wash your hands :shrug: I guess she could have gotten poison ivy then scratched and brokeup the skin then had it enter that way :shrug:
What I don't understand is how some cases are soo much worse than others :shrug: If she didn't have it from a surgery than its what is called CA-MRSA. Trying to narrow thigns down so she can seach for something more specific for what her friend had.
Sheardelight
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dems4me said:Had she recently undergone surgery? If not than what she has is CA-MRSA (community acquired). I received a krama or two from other folks that know people that had it too and had recent surgery at Calvert. The important thing is, you have to remain super vigiliant and clean and keep washing your hands. Handwashing in general is VERY important. I can't believe how many people DONT wash their hands often.
She went to her family doctor who diagnosed her with poison ivy. Said something about it being a REALLY bad year for it. She basically had a hole in her leg when she showed us. No poison ivy I have ever seen looked like that. when she went to urgent care they diagnosed her correctly. She's the client of my coworker so she knows exactly how she got it. I only know she told me what it was. My coworker called it though, she knew exactly what it was. I had heard of it but didnt know what exactly it was. I just knew I almost threw up when I saw her leg. It was that bad.
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Thanks kwilla I didnt know that. 
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Sheardelight said:
Sounds painful. Hope she feels better.
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dems4me said:Sounds painful. Hope she feels better.
She is much better now from what I hear. Thanks!
kwillia said:
That's true. I had a more benign staph infection on one of my fingers earlier this year that I got from ...drumroll please... pulling out a hangnail. Luckily I knew what it was and got to the doc right away. Staph infections are, to use one of my dad's sayings, like fresh fish- don't get any better with time.
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kwillia said:
Thats true, I got an infection in my finger from a hangnail...though rather than going to the doctor I just cut the infected spot on my finger and fixed it myself, neosporin and H202 are great. Healed up in a day or so.
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Sheardelight said:She is much better now from what I hear. Thanks!
Great!!
Good to know!!! I think she must still remain vigiliant on her followup antibiotics and hand washing and stringent cleanliness. 
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kwillia said:
I recently had a staph/strep infection on my wrist, where there was no obvious break in the skin nor a bug bite. It was very painful and when I finally realized I had something bad, I headed for the E.R. They promptly bagged me with an antibiotic & almost kept me overnight. I was told to take 2 days off of work, rest and take a weeks worth of moxifloxicin.
My niece up north got it last month from a bug bite, then had to have surgery to remove the hardened pus and infection. YUCK.
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Dye Tied said:
Luckily I've never had a staph infection anywhere before, I just went straight to the bigleagues. 
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Hospital acquired (HA) MRSA has been a problem for a while for hospitals and extended stay health care facilities. Community Acquired MRSA is just now becoming really mainstream. Several NFL football teams have dealt with outbreaks. It's been found that someone carrying MRSA on their skin (and most of us do) can leave it on Astroturf and then someone can receive a rug burn on the same area of Astroturf and develop it. Getting it from a wrestling mat certainly would follow the same philosophy. These days if you get an unusual skin wound it is best to ask the physician to culture it just to be sure.
Hospital acquired (HA) MRSA has been a problem for a while for hospitals and extended stay health care facilities. Community Acquired MRSA is just now becoming really mainstream. Several NFL football teams have dealt with outbreaks. It's been found that someone carrying MRSA on their skin (and most of us do) can leave it on Astroturf and then someone can receive a rug burn on the same area of Astroturf and develop it. Getting it from a wrestling mat certainly would follow the same philosophy. These days if you get an unusual skin wound it is best to ask the physician to culture it just to be sure.