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Posted: 10/15/2022 7:07:15 PM EDT
[#1]
Im too ocd to be able to resist popping and keeping popping that thing if it were on me
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Posted: 10/15/2022 7:13:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Glad they are going to fix you up. That is some serious shit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Update: getting admitted. Got 2 bags of iv antibiotics so far. Doc said he doesn’t feel a big abscess but will decide in the morning if he’s opening it up. Will be here until the culture comes back. Likely MRSA? Glad they are going to fix you up. That is some serious shit. Yep. Absolutely. Regardless of how the infection is there, it needs treatment immediately not tomorrow. Now |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 7:13:18 PM EDT
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maybe try a poultice laced with feather moss, and mustard root? mind you drop some water on them, occasionally, to keep them damp.
 good luck at the hospital
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Posted: 10/15/2022 7:14:24 PM EDT
[#4]
Glad you're getting the medical help you need. Keep us updated, OP.
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Posted: 10/15/2022 7:30:00 PM EDT
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My son got a bite on his arm when he was very young, like 6 or 7. He got oral antibiotics and steroids. I haven't seen steroids mentioned here.
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Posted: 10/15/2022 7:37:05 PM EDT
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Update: 3rd bag of fluid antibiotics now. No ultrasound but they did do an X-ray. I asked them why the X-ray and they said something about it shows the gasses in muscle tissue? Maybe I heard them wrong.
This is a good hospital contrary to the one I went to first so I trust them. I’ll be here until they get the culture back |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 7:40:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Update: 3rd bag of fluid antibiotics now. No ultrasound but they did do an X-ray. I asked them why the X-ray and they said something about it shows the gasses in muscle tissue? Maybe I heard them wrong. This is a good hospital contrary to the one I went to first so I trust them. I’ll be here until they get the culture back Good!!!! They are taking it seriously. Glad you went in. Heal up. |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 7:53:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Update: 3rd bag of fluid antibiotics now. No ultrasound but they did do an X-ray. I asked them why the X-ray and they said something about it shows the gasses in muscle tissue? Maybe I heard them wrong. This is a good hospital contrary to the one I went to first so I trust them. I'll be here until they get the culture back    Got anything good for dibs?  |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 8:04:37 PM EDT
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My cultures took 36 hours or so to come back. Mine were MSSA instead of MRSA and it still sucks.
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Posted: 10/15/2022 8:08:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Update: 3rd bag of fluid antibiotics now. No ultrasound but they did do an X-ray. I asked them why the X-ray and they said something about it shows the gasses in muscle tissue? Maybe I heard them wrong. This is a good hospital contrary to the one I went to first so I trust them. I’ll be here until they get the culture back Good. Yes gasses. |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 8:25:12 PM EDT
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Threads like this remind me of why they cal it “practicing medicine”.
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Posted: 10/15/2022 8:28:11 PM EDT
[#12]
Vancomycin
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Posted: 10/15/2022 8:43:01 PM EDT
[#13]
Hoping for the best OP
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Posted: 10/15/2022 8:47:07 PM EDT
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Quoted:
maybe try a poultice laced with feather moss, and mustard root? mind you drop some water on them, occasionally, to keep them damp. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/totalwar-ar/images/d/d3/Grannie_Hawkins.png good luck at the hospital [/quoteAdd some chewing tobacco. It does work pretty good. |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 9:34:28 PM EDT
[#15]
IBLRO
In before leg Rots off. I almost lost my foot from Infection from a little scratch. |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 9:37:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Threads like this remind me of why they cal it “practicing medicine”. Threads? Lol. Try going to the docs. Their "medical opinions" are like assholes. Everybody has one. |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 9:55:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No. Widow envenomation doesn't cause necrosis. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Black widow I'm guessing. Sorry man. Widow envenomation doesn't cause necrosis. OP's picture don't show necrosis. That's garden variety cellulitis, likely with some histamine reaction as well. The type of spider doesn't usually matter, at least in this country. Treatment needs to cover common skin pathogens, especially MRSA. OP, are you having a lot of pain or fevers? Is it hot and tender? Or is it itchy? (Urgent care MD here) |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 9:59:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Agreed. Also, black widow is a musclotoxin. No matter where you get bit, you'll likely get severe abdominal muscle cramps, nausea and pain, sweating and tachycardia. OP's picture don't show necrosis. That's garden variety cellulitis, likely with some histamine reaction as well. The type of spider doesn't usually matter, at least in this country. Treatment needs to cover common skin pathogens, especially MRSA. OP, are you having a lot of pain or fevers? Is it hot and tender? Or is it itchy? (Urgent care MD here) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Black widow I'm guessing. Sorry man. Widow envenomation doesn't cause necrosis. OP's picture don't show necrosis. That's garden variety cellulitis, likely with some histamine reaction as well. The type of spider doesn't usually matter, at least in this country. Treatment needs to cover common skin pathogens, especially MRSA. OP, are you having a lot of pain or fevers? Is it hot and tender? Or is it itchy? (Urgent care MD here) He had strong fever of 101.5 I believe. Even my non doctor ass, only Boy Scout, knows that with the redness/swelling rapidly expanding means “medical treatment right fucking now” |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 10:33:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not a damn spider bite. People and spiders, good grief. Spiders aren't like getting a wasp or bee sting. The spider can't just crawl up your leg and decide it is time to give you a nip either. Spider bites happen on hands and lower arms and occur when a web is disturbed. I have known people to get popped by a BW. They were working in the yard and reached into a dark spot, not realizing that TOUGH web belongs to a BW. The LADY then got bitten on the hand. It is an infected follicle that got MSRA. Most likely because you inadvertently scratched it with a dirty fingernail. Bullshit, spider bites can happen all over. They are most common on hands and feet, but I've been bitten (by spiders) on the calf, chest, stomach, and even right behind the ear. Probably more places that I'm forgetting. Spend enough time outdoors, and shit happens. The one behind the ear was actually while lying in bed. Felt an itch and scratched it, spider didn't like being scratched and bit me. But I won the fight. |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 10:55:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Agreed. Also, black widow is a musclotoxin. No matter where you get bit, you'll likely get severe abdominal muscle cramps, nausea and pain, sweating and tachycardia. OP's picture don't show necrosis. That's garden variety cellulitis, likely with some histamine reaction as well. The type of spider doesn't usually matter, at least in this country. Treatment needs to cover common skin pathogens, especially MRSA. OP, are you having a lot of pain or fevers? Is it hot and tender? Or is it itchy? (Urgent care MD here) Thanks for the reply. About to get my 4th bag and will get a 5th at 5am. Yes a lot of pain in the area. Not as much now as a day or two ago. Just a constant hurt and when I get up from sitting in the recliner or laying down that blood rush down the leg hurts pretty damn good for about 5-10 seconds. Yes to fevers. 100.7ish. They come and go. Kind of random atleast to me.wound area is hot and very tender. No itch. I think they’re going to open me up tomorrow considering my room is on the surgery floor lol. |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 11:08:42 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: OP thats a small abscess from a MRSA infection. It'll get better if someone can I&D it and get you on some antibiotics like Doxy that offer coverage for it. This is the answer. These lesions are almost always MRSA and almost never from spiders. Spider bites are envenomations, not infections. The first few days, there usually isn’t pus to drain, but if there is, it needs to be opened. Doxycycline or trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole are the first line antibiotics for it. Widow bites are incredibly painful with associated muscle spasms, sweating, and vomiting. Loxoscles (recluse) bites have no effective treatment. Most don’t lead to tissue necrosis. Those that do, take weeks or months to heal. |
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Posted: 10/15/2022 11:32:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I thought the approach/attitude was surprising. If I were a doc, I'd want to get the whole story from the patient. I think it was a case of already having it diagnosed before we even spoke, and the rest was confirmation bias. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: @Alnen123 I’m not a shingles expert, but it must be exceedingly rare to have a *single* herpes-zoster vesicle from shingles. Typically, it’s a whole string of them! One of the things you learn in medicine is to, [gasp], listen to the patient. I know, sounds crazy.  I thought the approach/attitude was surprising. If I were a doc, I'd want to get the whole story from the patient. I think it was a case of already having it diagnosed before we even spoke, and the rest was confirmation bias. @Alnen123 Those are often the cases that lead to lawsuits, and the cases where the next doctor doesn’t deviate from the diagnosis because they are lazy or don’t bother to. You will have several doctors/nurse practitioners see the same patient for the same supposed diagnosis until the patient dies from the actual medical condition! |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 12:25:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If something pops out singing ''hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my ragtime gal,'' kill it.  SpaceBalls Alien Get well, op. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 12:40:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Razor blade and some rubbing alcohol. Put a slice in that thing and squeeze that shit out. And some Oil of Oregano...I keep some handy. It can burn, so you have to apply it with a carrier. I use Neosporin for a carrier. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 12:53:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I got three spider bites in my taint.. Yes, the area between my anus and the base of my penis. There were three separate pairs of puncture marks. I got bitten while staying overnight at a very posh hotel near Vancouver, BC, Canada after attending a relatives wedding on Saturday. On Monday I went to my primary care doctor and by then it was really red, swollen and nasty. The doctor gave me prescriptions for antibiotics and pain pills, and gave me a giant shot of antibiotics in my hip. Doc said the antibiotic load he put in my hip would kill any syphillis, clap, infections he could think of. When he first saw the bites his reaction was an unprofessional "GEEZUS!!" Then he apologized for the unprofessional reaction, but we had had a laugh about it...I could see how if it was the other guy it would be more "interesting". I ended up with necrotic flesh about the size of a silver dollar before it started to clear up. Sitting hurt until it healed. I hate spiders. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 1:27:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If something pops out singing ''hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my ragtime gal,'' kill it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZUVeMtYXcGet well, op. Hope the alien spider baby doesn't come popping out of there when the Dr. lances it & start dancing with him Good luck OP! |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 1:40:32 AM EDT
[#27]
Hang in there man. I'll get better and you'll pull through. Keep positive and stay strong.
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Posted: 10/16/2022 1:48:46 AM EDT
[#28]
Damn. Interested to hear where this goes.
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Posted: 10/16/2022 1:53:14 AM EDT
[#29]
I got bit by a Black Widow in the groin area. It was weird how the spasms migrated from the bite area to all over my body. Never a lot of pain or got nauseated, just spasms.
After about 4 hours, I was fine. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 3:25:00 AM EDT
[#30]
Wish you a speedy recovery
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Posted: 10/16/2022 3:34:56 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dibs on guns and ammo. Nice knowing you OP. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 3:35:19 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Does kind of look like a recluse bite with the zit/possible beginnings of necrosis. Had something similar bite me on the back. Didnt realize how bad it was until it started burning super bad. Antibiotics worked wonders |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 3:36:24 AM EDT
[#33]
That’s it? I had way worse in boot camp on my shin. It just oozed pus for a couple weeks then went away. Another kid got bit on his face. Looked like he got hit with a bat.
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Posted: 10/16/2022 3:56:18 AM EDT
[#34]
Everyone here is wrong. That's a guinea worm. (Dracunculiasis) Just starting to poke his filthy head out. Grab it with some pliers and roll it up on a wooden match. A pencil works too. Slow. Don't break it off! I took parasitology. Disgusting course.
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Posted: 10/16/2022 4:19:11 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Everyone here is wrong. That's a guinea worm. (Dracunculiasis) Just starting to poke his filthy head out. Grab it with some pliers and roll it up on a wooden match. A pencil works too. Slow. Don't break it off! I took parasitology. Disgusting course. https://www.jica.go.jp/ghana/english/activities/img/img03_01.jpg https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2021/01/Dracunculus_medinensis.jpg   Attached File |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 4:46:16 AM EDT
[#36]
Sorry op. At least it’s not on your dick. Knew a soldier in the field that used a porta potty at night and well…. He had to be admitted to.
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Posted: 10/16/2022 5:05:38 AM EDT
[#37]
That looks like MRSA
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Posted: 10/16/2022 5:10:35 AM EDT
[#38]
Quoted: Agreed. Also, black widow is a musclotoxin. No matter where you get bit, you'll likely get severe abdominal muscle cramps, nausea and pain, sweating and tachycardia. ... Thank you for mentioning that. I have heart issues and workshop with more than its share of black widows creeping around in the corners, and tachycardia could do me in (almost did* a few months ago). I tend to tolerate them because spiders don't bother me and I don't kill things unless there is a reason, but it looks like I need to go on an eradication campaign. *"The patient was found in his car in the highway median. There was questionable seizure activity but Fire First Responders noted V tach, so the patient was shocked. He then went into v fib / arrest and was shocked three more times before achieving ROSC." |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 6:22:56 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: MSRA infection. Bingo. Here's what can happen if you don't get it treated right away. My sister had a POS doctor who told her he'd check it out at her next appointment in a week. She waited three days, couldn't take it anymore, and went to the ER, where they found this (pic is post-debridement) 
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Posted: 10/16/2022 6:57:35 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: MSRA infection. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 7:09:17 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bingo. Here's what can happen if you don't get it treated right away. My sister had a POS doctor who told her he'd check it out at her next appointment in a week. She waited three days, couldn't take it anymore, and went to the ER, where they found this (pic is post-debridement) https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/31267/FullSizeRender-2100246.jpg Fucking hell... |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 7:09:48 AM EDT
[#42]
Props to you OP for at least, after getting the info you needed,
going to the ER. I hope it clears up ok. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 7:13:37 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I got three spider bites in my taint.. Yes, the area between my anus and the base of my penis. There were three separate pairs of puncture marks. I got bitten while staying overnight at a very posh hotel near Vancouver, BC, Canada after attending a relatives wedding on Saturday. On Monday I went to my primary care doctor and by then it was really red, swollen and nasty. The doctor gave me prescriptions for antibiotics and pain pills, and gave me a giant shot of antibiotics in my hip. Doc said the antibiotic load he put in my hip would kill any syphillis, clap, infections he could think of. When he first saw the bites his reaction was an unprofessional "GEEZUS!!" Then he apologized for the unprofessional reaction, but we had had a laugh about it...I could see how if it was the other guy it would be more "interesting". I ended up with necrotic flesh about the size of a silver dollar before it started to clear up. Sitting hurt until it healed. I hate spiders. Dat taint rite |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 7:17:55 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bullshit, spider bites can happen all over. They are most common on hands and feet, but I've been bitten (by spiders) on the calf, chest, stomach, and even right behind the ear. Probably more places that I'm forgetting. Spend enough time outdoors, and shit happens. The one behind the ear was actually while lying in bed. Felt an itch and scratched it, spider didn't like being scratched and bit me. But I won the fight. I sleep and recreate in the woods all the time, in hammocks and tents. Spiders aren't a threat but their eyes sure reflect flashlights. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 7:25:14 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bingo. Here's what can happen if you don't get it treated right away. My sister had a POS doctor who told her he'd check it out at her next appointment in a week. She waited three days, couldn't take it anymore, and went to the ER, where they found this (pic is post-debridement) https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/31267/FullSizeRender-2100246.jpg classic pilonidal cyst. Nasty ass right there. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 7:38:39 AM EDT
[#46]
We didn't have that crap growing up because we had Mercurochrome and it was used on us liberally by any available parent or grandmother. If you were a kid and not covered in orange/red blotches, you were a geeky nerd. The term ''it stings because it's killing the germs'' was used quite frequently. As a kid, you have to appreciate something that is making germs die an agonizing death while screaming in soundless pain.
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Posted: 10/16/2022 7:54:20 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: classic pilonidal cyst. Nasty ass right there. Negative. She fell hard on her coccyx. The wound got MRSA. See those light lines radiating lateraly? The staph tunneled under the skin and resulted in this: Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 8:00:45 AM EDT
[#48]
PSA for the non-medical:
If we look at the OP’s pic, there’s a dark point of entry site that may be a spider bite, infected hair follicle, splinter or other breech of the skin; The surrounding redness is cellulitis, which is a diffuse, non-pocket of infection amongst the cells; if you look closely at the breech point, there’s a white “head” or pustule pushing up from an abscess, thinning the skin & screaming—I’m an abscess—DRAIN ME—I’m causing cellulitis and antibiotics cannot penetrate the abscess wall. There may be decent ER PAs, NPs or physicians—but I seldom encounter them—patients get a sepsis work-up, CT, U/S, MRI and infectious disease consult when all the ER idiot needs to do is lance/I&D an abscess before it progresses to a bigger abscess & more cellulitis. Eventually, a surgeon gets called to drain the abscess that’s the size of a half-dollar—which should have been the first step—not the last… Feel better OP |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 8:05:09 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Negative. She fell hard on her coccyx. The wound got MRSA. See those light lines radiating lateraly? The staph tunneled under the skin and resulted in this: Click To View Spoiler du fuck... That is double nasty! poor lady. |
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Posted: 10/16/2022 8:20:15 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I have been bitten twice by brown recluse spiders and still have the scars. Go back to the emergency room. Why are you wasting time asking the folks in GD? He went to the ER twice already and he keeps getting worse. He is coming to arfcom for answers and personal experience from others. Suggestion to go to a different hospital was accepted. Brown Recluse, MRSA infection and fungal infection has been discussed as encouragement to get treated elsewhere. I got thorned pretty good by a rose bush and within a short time was pretty bad. Since I knew what stuck me, urgent care doc had a pretty good idea what it was. She gave me meds for a fungal infection. Been thorned by things before and never had that happen and was surprised by the speed of the infection. |
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