MRSA Support Group
Staph infections are infections caused by the bacteria Staphylococcus. They include skin infections, pneumonia, blood poisoning, toxic shock syndrome, and food poisoning. Infection can happen through contact, especially if you have open wounds. Most infections are treatable with antibiotics. If you have been infected with staph, join the group for support and advice.
As I understand it, in some cases, early HIV infections produce MRSA infections. Have all of youi suffering from MRSA, been tested for HIV/AIDS? I had about every blood test but that one for my CA-MRSA last year. We are living in very horrorfying times.
PS Go phillies!!!
I requested to be tested recently because I was having night sweats, the MRSA boils, slight fevers, etc. and I just couldn't understand why I was getting all these side effects commonly associated with HIV. So even though I was tested at the beginning of my pregnancy and came back negative, I just am never sure about these things. People don't show symptoms for 15 years. Scary, isn't it?? The test came back negative but I am still having the sweats some nights. Anyone else had night sweating when they were either actively or inactively getting MRSA boils??? I feel like I'm the only one. (P.S. sweating most around my chest and back, not on the head)
Pregomrsa: It sounds like you are experiencing hormone fluctuation after your baby, and some immune system ups and downs too (hence the MRSA episodes?) Maybe a good holistic nutritionist can give you some advice for diet / supplements etc. to give your system a boost without interfering with nursing...
After I had our son (now a teenager) I had some serious hormone craziness, to the point where I was having night sweats so extreme that I had to sleep on a bath towel. Very unpleasant! As I remember, I complained to my OB/GYN but never really got an answer, and only figured out years later that it was a symptom of hormones.
Now I am actually in menopause at age 50, and the 'hot flashes' are not even as bad - I get hot but not drenched in sweat. Go figure.
n i can give my thoughts later.
it's just a strange, strange, world.
I have had HIV for 10 years. Never had any secondary, oportunistic infection till now. 2 years ago I had a nasty large boil on my neck with had brown fluid leak out of it. I didn't think to much about that instance. My wife drained it with a hot needle and lots...I mean lots of neosporin and gauze. I never told the doctors since I thought it was an infected hair follicle on my neck. Whats funny is that from around that time forward, if I exercised then my sweat glands would burn and I'd feel overheated all the time. Doctors said it was my imagination or that it was some new allergen in my home. Fast forward 2 years...Oct 15th I stopped taking my HIV meds thinking its the meds that are causing this overheating, sweating, painful burning nausea blackouts. I also start a round of Prednisone for a herniated disk. I then start taking Augmentin for a UTI, which then turns into Prostatitis with some Fluoroquinolone which ruptures my Achilles tendons. Then on Halloween I goto the ER for the worst abdominal pain I've ever had. The hospital admitted me and gave me IV something or rather-cillin. Which I swore was making mew feel worse, but the nurses just act like I'm insane after that. I have to injest PEG-3500 for a colonoscopy which gives me a bright red rash all over my body. They didn't find anything in the Sigmoid and sent me home with Percocet and I had to do a self massage at the Iliac region and felt better the next day. It wasn't constipation since I had no food in me for 3 days. I assume it was a n abdominal stricture. Still covered in a weird full body itchy rash I research some and discover all about MRSA... I goto my infectious disease doctor and request the nasal swap test with comes back positive. That was 5 days ago.... I have been using the sticky bactroban ointment up my nose which i think is for topical skin use only?!?! My greatest fear is that my 1 year old daughter is going to contract this and keep giving it back to me. The full body rash feels like stinging nettles and sleeping under blankets definitely makes the rash worse. It appears upon close examination that evey hair follicle on my body has a faint very very small raised waxy looking bump associated with it and if i trace my finger over my body I instantly have a red streak wherever my fingernail drew. These red streaks almost start to bleed and don't fade for several hours. Has anyone else had these symptoms? I think I'm having something else in addition to the MRSA and folliculitis thats on the backs of my legs and buttocks. No boils yet, but I sense they are forming since I can feel areas of hardness under the worst of the follicle bumps. I hope I am not dying...I'm gonna be so pissed.
Yikes. It sounds like you are having a histamine reaction - either to one of the medications you just had recently, or something else. Is it possible that ceasing your HIV medications has a rebound effect?
I get similar reactions to vitamin C, I am very sensitive to it, and if I take too much my whole body feels as if it is moments away from swelling up, even though I look normal. Maybe you would be a good candidate for taking colloidal silver internally, it will help dampen an overactive histamine reaction, as well as possibly calming any internal bacteria or viruses. I imagine you are dealing with a variety of doctors and medications, not all of them will know all the interactions between drugs, that may be the root of your current predicament....
Lots of luck.