Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

16 comments

• shadowcat

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  11 years ago

  That is quite a coincidence. 3 weeks ago I had to go to urgent care due to an infected middle finger. I got an antibiotic shot in the ass and put on high doses of antibiotic pills. Had to go back the next day to see if I needed to go to the hospital. fortunately I did not. Got another shot in the ass. They took a culture of the pus and sent it to the lab. The report came back as the same thing that you reported.
  
  Two more trips to urgent care and then they turned me over to my regular doctor. I saw him last Tuesday and the infection is gone but it will take another month or so for the skin and nail to regrow. I have no idea where I got it. Staph is everywhere. I must have had a tiny cut in that finger.
• Papi_Chulo

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  11 years ago

  There has been a lot of talk lately (in medical circles and such) about the state of germs and more precisely the fact many germs are becoming antibiotic resistant (in large part to antibiotics overuse).
  
  To make problems worse; apparently there are very few new antibiotics in the works/pipeline b/c for various reasons pharmaceutical makers don’t consider them profitable.
  
  Some refer to the current state as an emergency/epidemic.
  
• Papi_Chulo

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  11 years ago

  For those it may interest and have the time; below is the link for a recent PBS Frontline documentary about “Super Bugs”:
  
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/…
  
  
• samsung1

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  11 years ago

  What Detroit club was it? I have not tried the food at bogarts because of health concerns. I did try it at flight club and it was awful.
  
• Alucard

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  11 years ago

  Bring a barrier to sit on from now on, when you return.
  
  NEVER had an issue with any Food I've eaten at a club.
• HungryGiraffe

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  11 years ago

  Sorry to hear about your experience. Interesting that you report this. Noticing more dancers being hesitant about FIV. Also running into (or from) more cases of "dead trout pussy".
• zipman68

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  11 years ago

  Hope you recover soon Ermita_Nights my bro.
  
  However, I tend not to read global meaning into occurrences like that. If there is a god and he wants me to stop clubbin', why did he choose the Juiceman as his prophet? And if the Juiceman is jus' a crazy dude and there is no god, how did Juice come up with Juice 3:16?
  
  Maybe don't return to THAT club.
  
• zipman68

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  11 years ago

  Seriously though, this is a case where pure capitalism is problematic. Antibiotics make no financial sense to a pharmaceutical company. They require a huge R&D investment to sell a product that only works if it is used as little as possible.
  
  If I had to tell the board of directors of a pharma company "yeah...we're going to sink at least $4 billion into developing this drug, but we probably won't sell that much since the only way it will continue to work is if it is used as little as possible" I'd prepare myself to hear "uh no...maybe you should focus on new boner pills. Every dude wants a boner. And they want 'em as often as possible. Lotsa profit. So...yeah, kill the antibiotics division and expand the boner pill department. Maybe statins too...but DON'T SKIMP ON THE BONER PILLS!!!"
  
  Only hope is that the military will step in and say "we need new antibiotics so bacteria don't kill more troops than bullets".
• pabloantonio

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  11 years ago

  Ermita, hate to burst your fear of stripclub infections and all, but you could have picked up Staph anywhere.
  
  Staph is often found in hospitals, which are really clean environments.
  
  On the other hand, God is going to destroy us PL's because of our love of naked women. Repent NOW!
• farmerart

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  11 years ago

  What antibiotic were you given, Ermita, that finally defeated your infection?
  
  30+ years ago I came back from south east Asia with a very nasty infection that the common antibiotics couldn't defeat. My doc finally got me back to good health by using Vancomycin. At that time Vancomycin was the 'last resort' antibiotic for such infections as mine. My doc at the time was absolutely confounded by whatever infection I had brought back to Canada. He told me that this was the first time in his career that he had to resort to Vancomycin to cure one of his patients.
  
  I was working in Borneo when this happened. I have no clue where I picked up the bug but it was not in a SC.
• sharkhunter

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  11 years ago

  Yes, don't go to hospitals. I heard countless stories about people getting sick in the hospital and a lot of them died. Deadly germs are everywhere. I have seen first hand that churches are full of sick people too on occassion. God bless their souls. Almost 99% of the time, they will want to shake your hands helping to give you immunity to whatever they have. Only thousands die each year from the flu and other illnesses and shaking hands is a great way to get sick and die. I piss these sick m...f..f.kers off by giving them a peace sign instead. They can kill an idiot instead. Of course with so many germs in the air, the safest place to be might be in a club with germ killing alcohol. Strip club anyone?
• lopaw

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  11 years ago

  Wow. What timing. I am on an antibiotic myself right now for a UTI that I can firmly trace back to a particularly aggressive dancer that had her way with me a few days earlier. Dammit the things we put ouslves thru for dancer pootang!!
• Papi_Chulo

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  11 years ago

  Donald Trump supposedly really dislikes shaking hands; which is an issue for someone like him.
  
  I heard he would like it if we in the west do what the Asian/Japanese due which is give a quick bow of the head rather than have to shake hands and touch.
  
• sharkhunter

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  11 years ago

  I'd rather give a peace sign, bending over a lot can get your back sore.
  
  I don't like shaking hands either. It's probably not much worse than grabbing a door knob at work or picking up the gas pump handle. At least I can usually wash my hands after a little while. At church, they want you to stick around and absorb all the viruses.
• Ermita_Nights

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  11 years ago

  Thanks everyone for your good wishes. I'm not going to name the club, because as Pablo says I could have picked this up anywhere. But it's an area of my thigh that normally is covered in long pants, and would contact the seat during LD. I'll just say it was not one of the "upscale" places.
  
  Art, Vancomycin is so 20th century. I got Bactrim and a Cephalosporin but I couldn't tell you which one.
  
  Shark, I had the same thought about the hospital being a bad place to go for an infection, but I had little choice in the matter.
• Longball300

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  11 years ago

  True that staph is everywhere; 1 in 5 people carry it around in their nose. A percentage of those are MRSA. Whenever you have an infection INSIST that your doctor does a culture to determine what will kill it and not just blindly give you the antibiotic of the week. My MRSA was susceptible to good old Tetracycline which has been around forever, but, resistant to most of the newer antibiotics.