I'm going to have to go to the doctor tonight

[AlienGirl]

He's going to poke at the infection I've got. I hate when they poke on things. :-(

Tucker

[reyd reid reed]

1. Tell him that if he doesn't poke carefully and gently...

then you get to take a turn.

[AlienGirl]

2. No matter how gently he pokes it's going to hurt like hell

[reyd reid reed]

3. Awwwww....

I'm sorry.

:hug:

[mduffy31]

4. Where the hell is the infection?

[AlienGirl]

5. On my lower leg, mid-calf

The swelling and red is about up to the knee, because I was desperately hoping this was something other than MRSA so I played "think positive and do nothing" for a few days.

Tucker

[mduffy31]

6. Has MRSA been cultured out?

And where would you have come in contact with it?

[everythingsxen]

8. We are both colonized with it

And the doctors have no answers as to how to get rid of it apparently...

[mduffy31]

10. Okay

First I am guessing that the two of you are together or roomates or whatever, but just because you are colonized with MRSA doesn't mean that is what the infection is. Hell I come in contact with it everyday at work, in fact I am probably sitting in a cloud of it right now. But yes you will get pain meds, I would recommend something in a Percocet.

[everythingsxen]

13. It has that MRSA "look"

Which admittedly isn't that much different from any other infected hair folicle or small cut. But it is hot to the touch and it is very, very red.

[mduffy31]

15. Red streaks and hot to the touch

yes it is an infection.

[AlienGirl]

20. No fever, so it's not that bad!

:thumbsup:

[AlienGirl]

14. It has developed the Necrotizing Center Of Doom

I am slightly immune-sucky following cancer treatment that nuked my thymus gland, so I catch everything.

Everythingsxen is my fiance and co-bird-parent. :-) I infected him, tragically, and he just had a big ol' MRSA abcess on his neck...like a knot on a noose...

Tucker

[AlienGirl]

9. I got MRSA a year or so ago, at work at a drugstore

I've been getting recurring minor infections of it ever since. At last culture, the damn thing had started becoming resistant to tetracycline and other -cycline drugs.

Tucker

[mduffy31]

12. Gotcha

So they will have to go to Vancomycin or Linezolid, and if it is the latter I hope that you have insurance.

[AlienGirl]

18. Actually, sulfa took care of it for me last time

I better not have to get IV crap. :-(

It better not cost that much, either. Otherwise I might just ask for the Percocets and sit necrotizing and dying outside the hospital as a protest. (Just kidding. I think.)

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

7. Over my objections I might add....

Not that I am saying "I told you so"; no, wait, I am saying "I told you so". :P

Meh, you'll be fine. Plus, they will give you sweet, sweet pain meds.

[AlienGirl]

11. Pain meds...

They frickin' better.

Now my hips and my left thigh are also hurting. Oh, also my lower back. Aftereffects of starting the walking program, or weird-ass MRSA symptom?

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

16. Most likely both...

*shakes head*

I wish you would listen to me when I say "Go to the doctor". *grumble grumble*

[AlienGirl]

19. This time I vowed not to unless I was incapacitated, as in couldn't work

[Robeson]

17. If you need medical care, get it....

...I'm a big advocate of not letting things linger. I hope everything works out OK. I'm sure it will...:thumbsup: