In May of 97 I was diagnosised with a spider bite after cleaning out from under a machine at work..

It wasnt until many years later that I was put in a nursing home for rehab and was then told I had MRSA of the lungs and that it was and then I had boils..but I had already had skin leasions for years that was from the bite supposedly and had the pyderma on the left arm..After all that time and they found it in the lungs then I was told I had CA-MRSA!

I have had the picc lines and central lines and vancomycin several times until I finally reacted badly to it..The side effects were horrendous..I thought surely I would die..

I have had many rounds of Zyvox..not allergic bad side effects..and still have MRSA!!!

I too have the purple scars many..Also now the hole in my Cheek!! Another scar if it heals..

MRSA Is really not important to no one it seems except those of us who have it!!

God Bless You All!!

what is with these stupid drs NOT wanting to do a test that puts so many lives in jepordy??? Have you ever seen a nurse changing a dressing to put the tape on the rail by the bed then on you? And everybody in its bro touches that.

I find at times, that the misstreatmeant (putting it mildly) of MRSA patients more disturbing than the actualy illness. Talk about kicking a person when they are down.......I really haven't a clue to why some patients have only pimples or rashes, and other's boils and carbuncles. Perhaps, it is due the particular strain of MRSA and/or the patient's ability to or not, fight infection via their immune system. I would assume MRSA patient's that lead unhealthy lives by being smokers, drinkers,druggies, obese, lazy, et al...tend to be more prone to MRSA reoccurances. Then again, the most health conscious patients experience these recidivistic bacterial infections caused by MRSA. It is a mystery, aparently to the experts as well.

Thankfully my daugher's diaper rash appears to have been just that, it is clearing up-thank God really. I;ve been feeling really healthy the past fewdays, happy even....active...outgoing, and so forth...my skin looks fairly good, minus the folticullitus, which is still healing, but it is healing. I find it interestignthat MRSA leaves a purple residule scar behind...I do not see any of that with my postultes from the folticulitus...just red fading away here and there....

That vancomicyn's side effects sound horrendous-I read that it can cause deafness, I forget the precise medical jargon for it. I've also read in some cases, the patient must be forced into a medial induced coma in order to handle the hard side effects...and even worse, the MRSA generaly reappears!!!!! Great, now your deaf with boils back on your asses...agai, the cure being worse than the cause. That begs the question, where dowe go from here? How does the common man treat this very uncommon illness? I really wish that I knew. I wish none of us had toever experience this nightmare. Be strong in your determinations to fight your ilnness, be forward thinking. Oh yes, and for Amy-I believe be prescribed an antibotic over and over again causes the MRSA bacteria to become ven further resistent against the antibotic. At least tha is what I've read and was told by my various primaries...eventualy the Zyvox will be ineffective unfortunately, over time. That is the key point with MRSA, it is an intelligent germ, a self-mutating and RESISTENT bacteria. It is indeed, a super bug, for now.

Thank God It was just a diaper rash!!

I also Amy would be concerned about them having him use the Zyvox like that..When it becomes in effective then there is really nothing else..

I have reached that point after many rounds of it..and still have the boils and it internally..and Zyvox does not kill it..

GGlaw Vanco I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy..I have no doubt what little immune system I had that would have fought this it killed..while almost killing me..

SO now I am down to tring the potassuim iodide..

We will soon shee how it works..

God Bless You All!!!

Alvi Next time (hopefully there won't be a next time) he goes to the doctor, we will ask him about repeated use of Zyvox since although the mrsa isn't quite so "tough" as it used to be 3 rounds have not killed it. I may ask him if maybe we should try Bactrim again or Doxycycline. He has had 2 rounds of Bactrim and 2 rounds of Doxycycline already before using Zyvox. The doctor will not try Vanco so what else to do???

Hi all, health update....after a day out in the heart and humidity my folticlitus has flared up yet again...even new areas seem infected..this is just surreal.....my daugher's diaper , although improved somewhat, is still visable after several days-we put a call into her dr, hopefully they will test her for this dreaded bacteria. I really will be besides myself if she has MRSA, she is only three andmildly autistic, that is too much pain for such a young child to endure. I only wish someone would develope a cure for this, it seems possible, as this disease is a manmade biproduct of decades of over perscribing antibotics. How ironic it is that the medical community who barely functions at treating MRSA, is responsable for creating MRSA.

Hi Amy, I understand there are a few new antibotics that treat CA-MRSA in particular, naturaly, I do ot know there specific names, and with my poor spelling, I would onlyconfuse you more1 Seriously, I hope your husband can keep his strain of MRSA in check. I pray for all of you, even postman.

KC, between me, you, and the Holy Ghost-I believ you are a plant on this board and work for that MRSANOW.org....peddling false hope tot hose of us sufferkng with MRSA. I purchaed the phenomenal drink, and I feel the same as before usign it...IT DOES NOT CURE MRSA. The same with their garlic product, IT DOES NOT CURE MRSA. However, what these products do do is afford the buyer paying greatly inflated prices for commn grocery store, over the counter products, such as eating raw garlic, which is the ONLY way to get the maximum benfits of it's healing power. Sorry, I don ot buy into the snake oil you people are selling. Don ot trust this company folks.