Best overall guide to living with MRSA I have seen
Of course I am not a doctor and we all need to be
careful to not try to over-diagnose each other and
give potentially dangerous medical device when we are
not doctors, but here is the best guide to living with
MRSA I have ever seen. It's from the Washington State
Department of Health
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Hi, my name Cyndi Olsen. I was diagnosed with respiratory MRSA after a long terrible cough last summer. I was on zivox for 2 weeks and a week after I went off...
Hi Cyndi --- I just completed a six week treatment for MSRA. The antibiotics that worked were minocycline and sulfamethoxazolle/tmp --- and an ointment for the...
Bathing with Hibiclens is a GREAT idea to keep the amount of MRSA on the skin to a minimum to lessent the chance of it invading a small opening in the skin, be...
How do you know it is living in your abdomen? You must have a wound infection where the hernia repair was done? It is either on skin surface, in your nose...
They found mine during a bronchoscopy, they took cultures from my lungs, bronchials and trachea. I have it in my respiratory system. Does anyone else here have...
Mary Ann, When they did the hernia repair, (2001 when I contracted MRSA) they used some type of mesh to help strengthen the abdominal wall. The NUMEROUS ...
Hi Vickie, Right...So, did they take the mesh out? Normally when a wound is infected and they have a foreign body in, they have to take it out, clear up the...
I fought all year last year for someone to listen to me about what meds I needed to treat it, but nobody wanted to listen. When I had to be cut open in the ER...
... meds ... cut ... needed ... abdominal ... was ... get ... wound ... more in ... Vanco ... ... noticed ... So ... the ... only ... needs ... dealing ... ...
Of course I am not a doctor and we all need to be careful to not try to over-diagnose each other and give potentially dangerous medical device when we are not...
Dear Cyndi, My daughter had MRSA in her right lung 3 years ago. At the time she was operated on and a little less than a 1/3 of that lung was removed. The...
Thanks. I wrote down the name of the nasal ointment. I will ask for it - I assume it's a prescription. I'm allergic to sulfa drugs tho...so not an option for...
I have heard that overuse of the Muprocin (SP?) cream can cause the MRSA bacteria to become resistant to the cream itself. I had an MRSA infection on my leg...
Wow, thanks for all the info. Cyndi Ca ~ Bryan Dailey <brykidla@...> wrote: I have heard that overuse of the Muprocin (SP?) cream can cause the MRSA...
Thanks Bryan for writing this message. I find it inspirational and helpful. Sometimes it is difficult for me to keep a positive attitude and not be paranoid...
Thank You Mary Ann! - and thank you for your post. It is important that we share as much as we can about this growing public health problem --- JB Mary Ann...
I will look for Hibiclens, thanks. I am feeling better, thanks. I thought that MRSA was in my past until my doc told me otherwise yesterday... Cyndi Ca ~ Dulce...
Vancomycin thru IV is the only thing to do internally, and only as needed in 6 week courses of treatment....externally colloidal silver has helped my slow...