Hi Folks, Sorry I've been so quiet - just been busy living life. I had a "something" on my shoulder. Instead of wondering until it was the size of a baseball,...
Hi to Helen and all of our list members, So, you got bit, huh? You must be mighty tasty! (lol - j/k). Your experience with your Internist is common. As...
Hello all, My first encounter with MRSA started 3 months after I received my CPAP for obstuctive sleep apnea. I was wondering if anyone else has also started...
Hi! First off, welcome to the group - unfortunately it's a nasty way to meet other people. And I'm sorry to hear of your outbreaks. They are uncomfortable...
Hi, Just a question to see if anyone has ever gotten mrsa in their tissues. my last bout of mrsa there was no open sore. just a deep hard sore boil like deep...
Hi Nancy, I never had any sores from MRSA because I acquired it through an incision that had opened a tiny bit. I had my right hip reconstructed in 1993. It...
Sue, thanks for the reply. i got my first mrsa from a pimple boil. i was admitted to the hospital. it was the size of maybe my fingertip if that big. i had...
Nancy, It sounds to me (and I'm not a doctor or expert - just a person who's had MRSA) like you may have to always watch that area. MRSA isn't like a germ....
Thanks so much. That is how i feel too. like it is there and will always be there. I am so sad because I am allergic to vanco. but anywys. thanks for the...
... Hello, This is actually exactly what sometimes happens to me. In February last year I started getting boils and since then I have only have a total of...
'Super' bacteria live on sheets, fingernails-study The mutated, drug-resistant "superbugs" that cause an increasing number of hospital infections and deaths...
And I was wondering- do you all tell people what is wrong with you? I had to be hospitalized for 3 days/nights. I am afraid people will not want to hang out...
Btw, welcome to the group and I'm sorry to hear you've just been diagnosed. As to your question: I don't hide the fact that I've had MRSA. I never felt the...
Hello. My boyfriend was just diagnosed with MSRA. He's still in the hospital right now. They had to do surgery to open and clean out 9 different absesses. He...
Hi, My name is Kathie, both my mother and my daughter had MRSA. My mother passed away after it entered her blood stream, my daughter had huge abcesses on two...
I lost my mother to MRSA in January, she was 69, my heart and prayers are with you and your family. If you ever need someone to talk with you have my email...
sorry to hear about your mother. makes me wonder if the bad infection my mom got 6 months before her death was mrs. she got a baseball size lump just over her...
Well, I am pregnant and have MRSA. Anyone have any experience with this? There is no info on the web about this that I can find. Also, I was hospitalized...
Hi Laura, Welcome to the list and I'm sorry to hear your boyfriend was diagnosed with MRSA. I don't know if you've read the past messages at the group site,...
Hi Kathie, First, let me say how deeply sorry I am for your mother's passing. It takes an enormous amount of strength and love to do all that you did for her....
Oh dear, Gretchen! I know nothing about the effects of MRSA on a pregnancy. I would think that a OB-GYN who handles high risk preganacies might be the person...
Hi! I am brand new to the group and thought I would introduce myself. I currently live in Albia Iowa (about 60 miles south of Des Moines) but lived in Houston...
Oh my heart and prayers are with you and your little one. There is something on the net about it, and they talked about it the other day on tv...but I'm so...
I am so sorry to hear about your mother as well. It's so hard to imagine that something so preventable is allowed to take the lives of so many people, and to...
Oh I am so sorry to hear about your ordeal. Is everything okay for you now? I'll keep you in my prayers, I saw the nightmare you all go through, my heart is...
Hiya Denise, I should have known you were doing this--we definitely need to get together on this!! I am Christina Jones, wife of Marshall Jones, who has (so...
... I ... but ... a ... of ... have ... some of ... but ... of ... Hi, Nancy, Welcome to the group! My 2 girls, ages 5 & 3, came down with MRSA after having...
... Hi, Gretchen, Congratulations! I'm sorry to hear that you are suffering from MRSA at this time in your life. I have no experience with it during ...
Hi Christina and welcome to the group. I'll tell ya, this is a horrible way to meet people but at the same time, this list has been such a great support for...