I have just found out, after a year and five doctors that misdiagnosed it, that
i have CA-
MRSA. My wife has also been diagnosed as having it. Between us we have seen 7
doctors
before the last one listened to us and took a culture of boils we both had at
the time. We had
diagnoses of spider bite, deodorant problems, skin irritations, and
uncleanliness. I had the
first boil and my wife acquired it after. Probably from draining the original
boils after the
first 2 doctors were very unconcerned about them. We are scared and concerned
about this,
particularly since it went for a year and alot of worthless antibiotics. We
have been put on a
six month treatment of Bactrim. I was wondering if anyone else has been given
this course
of action. We were told that this is the standard of treatment to start with
for CA-MRSA.
Thank God that both of our kids have not acquired it in the time of
misdiagnoses. We feel
for all out there dealing with this growing problem and have been actively
letting anyone who
will listen know about CA-MRSA.