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As if it wasn't bad enough to get flesh eating disease once this year, i have it again! WTF?? I have these huge swollen red patches on my leg and they are tender and sore. Since i recognized the symptoms from last time i went to the hospital right away and caught it soon enough to avoid IV, or worse, leg amputation! But now im on another batch of anti-biotics that make me sick. So is this common? Has anyone else ever had this or am i just "special"?

OMFG CHANGE YOUR CREEPY AVATAR AND THEN WE'LL TALK

You kidding right??

What's the medical name for this disease?

uncommon...

You kidding right??

What's the medical name for this disease?

well i can't really spell it but i will try = stapholococcus?

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Originally posted by wienerschnitzel well i can't really spell it but i will try = stapholococcus?

On google it gives something like this, so I guess you spelled it right

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Dear Doctor, I have had a recurring folliculitis on my forearms and underarms for the past year. I was prescribed a short course of a single oral antibiotic last year (four times) which did not get rid of it. So my doctor added rifampin (600 mg a day for ten days). This cleared it up but then it came back.He thought it would not recur after this. I work out regularly at the gym and wearing long sleeves and using a towel does not help. I use an antibacterial soap but nothing seems to work. I do not carry the staph in my nose as I had it tested. My last viral load was 17,000 and my t-cells were above 500. I am not on any therapy. This has been really frustrating as the bumps can get really itchy and sometimes appear as large raised deeply red or purple lesions studded with pus-filled bumps. Is there anything topical or another drug I can try to keep this from recurring? Many thanks for such a wonderful site and resource for information. JCH

you are special and unique... celebrate the fact that no one else on TA has a flesh eating bacteria except you...


heh, on a more serious note...

hopefully it doesn't get too bad... just keep taking those pills until it hopefully goes away... cuz losing a leg... man that would suck a lot

btw, is it just you that gets these bacteria or does anyone else in your family have a history of getting that?

it's just me so far! i don't know what the hell is wrong with me this year, i have gotten alot of infections, a really bad viral infection that took 3 months to get over was probably the worst. I also found out last week that i am now lactose intolerant which is also odd for my family. I am also partially colour blind which DOES run in our family but is very rare in women. Maybe my body just hates me this year?

oh- moncster, i changed my avatar, didn't want to give you nightmares!

Sucks to be you right now.

If it makes you feel any better, my body's all messed up too. I need surgery on my stomach, my knees have no cartiledge, I have back problems... who knows what else I inherited from my horrible health family?

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Originally posted by moncster OMFG CHANGE YOUR CREEPY AVATAR AND THEN WE'LL TALK

wiener's avatar is awsome


anyway, a staph skin infection? that is very rary. staph normally attacks your throat and leads to a strep throat.
you said you were having quite a few health problems lately? you could have a very low white blood cell count. i would get a blood test done right away and have them check your levels.

Is this the disease shown on "Ripleys Believe It Or Not"?, on there is showed someones leg beat eaten away by some kind of bacteria or something...he banged his knee against something accidently and i guess it started the disease again...i dunno...when i saw that episode i was frightened...especially hitting my knee against anything.

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Originally posted by wienerschnitzel it's just me so far! i don't know what the hell is wrong with me this year, i have gotten alot of infections, a really bad viral infection that took 3 months to get over was probably the worst. I also found out last week that i am now lactose intolerant which is also odd for my family. I am also partially colour blind which DOES run in our family but is very rare in women. Maybe my body just hates me this year?

And I thought I was screwed up because I had 2 colds in the last 3 months...

My first guess would be that you have aids, but since you said you'll wait with sex untill marriage, then I guess that is out of the picture

But seriously, maybe your immune system is weakened for some reason. Or you had very bad luck this year.. It also may be that the bacteria which cause the flesh eating disease weren't completely destroyed the first time you had it treated, so that they have spread again.

Yipes. Jim Henson (creator of the muppets) also died of a flesh-eating bacteria.

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Originally posted by montie wiener's avatar is awsome anyway, a staph skin infection? that is very rary. staph normally attacks your throat and leads to a strep throat. you said you were having quite a few health problems lately? you could have a very low white blood cell count. i would get a blood test done right away and have them check your levels.

Also getting an HIV test is probably wise.

Have you ever had a blood transfusion, or anything else that could have put you at risk for HIV contraction? Have you ever shared razors with anyone etc?

THIS IS THE OFFICIAL BAD GENES THREAD!!

I'm 17 and have arthritus in the base of my thumb and getting it in my back and knees and when im older i can almost guarantee that i'll have LBS low blood sugar don't ask me why

well out of concern for my health i had some blood work done a few weeks ago and they said everything checked out fine. So i don't have HIV. I haven't had any blood transfusions anyway or shared razors, so i think i am safe. I don't know about the guiness records show, that really sucks if that guy got such an infection by hitting it against a wall! I've taken a few anti-biiotics since last night and the swelling and redness has gone down but the lumps are still hard and tender. Yuck. You guys probably don't want to know this. and no pics or stfu!

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Originally posted by wienerschnitzel I also found out last week that i am now lactose intolerant which is also odd for my family.

Actually, i found out recently that i am also lactose intolerant. i asked my allergist about it and she said that sometimes being on a lot of antibiotics can sometimes mess with the bacteria in your stomach and intestines to cause lactose intolerance. you can get some over the counter stuff to counterract this, i forget what it's called but just go ask your phamacist they should know.

i think its called necrotising faciitis. I did a poster on this and i found some quite disturbing pictures of it.

its a good thing it was caught quickly.

i hope you'll be alright all the best


oh...how bout pics?

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Originally posted by Dmatrox oh...how bout pics?

dude... i swear to god, that gives me a motivation to trace your timezone, come to canada, and kick your ass!



wienerschnitzel, it's not incredibly uncommon, but doctors try to keep this stuff contained. back in high school there were several cases in a nearby town that got everyone concerned about it... sorry to hear you have it, it's very unpleasant

i had the same exact thing...but i havent gotten checked out...i havent been to a doctor in 9 years....so well my bro got the same symptons and he went to go get checked up and they gave him some cream or something so he used it and it went away... so ive been taking the cream and it seems to be slowly going away but its still there and ive been using this damn cream for a week...

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Originally posted by gwrmarines THIS IS THE OFFICIAL BAD GENES THREAD!! I'm 17 and have arthritus in the base of my thumb and getting it in my back and knees and when im older i can almost guarantee that i'll have LBS low blood sugar don't ask me why

I'm red-green color deficient.

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Originally posted by sherman Actually, i found out recently that i am also lactose intolerant. i asked my allergist about it and she said that sometimes being on a lot of antibiotics can sometimes mess with the bacteria in your stomach and intestines to cause lactose intolerance. you can get some over the counter stuff to counterract this, i forget what it's called but just go ask your phamacist they should know.

that is incredibly interesting! i will mention that to my doctor because i have been on some crazy anti-biotics all year and so that could explain why!

i'd tell them to test you again and check your white blood cell count.
i doubt they checked you for HIV. the most commenly used test for that takes a while to go thru.
but i dunno.

two summers ago i got really sick during the summer with mono. i had been out of town partying for 2 weeks strait. no sleep, drank pretty much the entire two weeks. came home and had my wisdom teeth pulled. then i was on antibiotics to prevent any bacterial infections along with the pain killers. i got incredibly sick and we changed antibiotics. i then came down with this horrible rash all over my body. i went to see the doctor, we did some blood tests and i got diagnosed with mono and the rash was a bad reaction from the antibiotics. for two weeks i was in bed. and i almost missed my trip to greece at the end of the summer.
about 6 months later at school, i had a relapse of the mono. i never felt sicker my entire life. for two weeks i didn't even have the energy to get out of bed. it was really really bad.
had tests done then and it took about 4 weeks for my white blood cell count to return to a normal level. i was freaking out i had HIV

but the likely hood of that is low. get more tests done. its not normal to get an infection like that, especially if your the only one that has it and haven't been any strange places. get a full workup of your blood done. and try to determine how you picked up whatevr you have.

oh and post pics!!

good luck

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Originally posted by montie two summers ago i got really sick during the summer with mono. i had been out of town partying for 2 weeks strait. no sleep, drank pretty much the entire two weeks. came home and had my wisdom teeth pulled. then i was on antibiotics to prevent any bacterial infections along with the pain killers. i got incredibly sick and we changed antibiotics. i then came down with this horrible rash all over my body. i went to see the doctor, we did some blood tests and i got diagnosed with mono and the rash was a bad reaction from the antibiotics. for two weeks i was in bed. and i almost missed my trip to greece at the end of the summer. about 6 months later at school, i had a relapse of the mono. i never felt sicker my entire life. for two weeks i didn't even have the energy to get out of bed. it was really really bad. had tests done then and it took about 4 weeks for my white blood cell count to return to a normal level. i was freaking out i had HIV

May be the reason you got sick was the alcohol killed much of those white blood cells off?

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