Now I have a huge brown scar from it. I recently got another bug bite, this time on the buttocks. The first morning it just looked like a bug bite. (There are a lot of spiders around my house, why they like to bite my butt, who knows) The second morning, it still looked like a normal bug bite. But the third morning it was like it had completely transformed. The whole are was about the size of a quarter. Five days later, the area is about the size of a softball.

While the skin has barely started breaking down, it’s looking nastier and nastier with every passing day. And of course I can not show you, because that would just be… no.

It was huge from being swollen and sore. On Thanksgiving (2011) my mom and I started squeezing the puss out of it. My brother said it would help it go away faster. At this point I still hadn’t seen a doctor. So as we were squeezing it hurt bad, but it was working. Over the next 3 days I kept squeezing and 3 cores came out of it. Then about a week later more unknown bumps showed up. I didn’t think anything of it until Dec. 2nd. When my aunt saw it. Earlier in the morning my mom and I circled all the bumps to see if they had gotten bigger. when we arrived at the hospital to see my new born cousin, my aunt asked about it.

Showed her and she was like you need to go down to the ER, it’s not getting any better. Boy am I ever glad I listened to her! After being seen the doctor they said I had 11 Abscesses on my arm pit. After that I was put on 2 antibodics, pain medicine, and was given ibprophen. I went to the ER twice, was taken out of work for 4 days, in those 4 days out of work I saw my doctor 2 times and a few times after. For the whole month of December I was on Antibodic’s.

Due to being on them for a whole month I got a pretty bad yeast infection. Now after the first of the year has everything pretty much cleared up. My lymph nodes aren’t as swollen. My left arm looks great, and the arm pit I can finally wear DO for my body odor. If it doesn’t look right go see the doctor regardless of what people say

We have been dealing with this for about 3 years in my family. Three years ago my daughter, 6 at the time, was diagnosed with staph. She got it again in a few months. My mother was then diagnosed later, my brother had to be hospitalized and had surgery. My sister got it after that. My son got it over the summer. I have been so tired and dragged down for a while now.

I am feeling great now. I now wonder if I gave my own family this disease. GO TO THE DR. DON’T IGNORE IT . IF NOT FOR YOUR OWN HEALTH FOR THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE. Any rash or cyst, just have it checked. It really important to be safe rather than sorry.

I am mentioning this because I am suffering from a ton of fatigue, depression, I’m doing terrible in school when right around the bug bite time I had a 4.0 in college. This was over a year ago but someone kept asking me about the scar and what happened and I just realized I should probably look into it. It has been progressive rather than all at once and after trying tons of different medicines to help fix the problems, nothing seems to be responsive. I was prescribed Adderall (after nuvigil which did absolutely nothing to combat the fatigue) and after starting at a daily dosage of 20mg I was recently at 80mg a day and barely awake and then there was a massive adderall and stimulant shortage a few months ago which came at the absolute worst time.

My question is whether there is anything that sounds similar to what I have in symptoms and description. I was trying to post photos but I am unsure how to do so.

My Story Starts 3 months ago. Small Red Dot on my left forefinger. Then my lymph nodes swelled up @ my elbow & under my armpit. Went to ER. DR said it was Cellulites. Got an antibiotic shot & Script for 2 Antibiotics. Did not help. The spot on my finger finally healed. Then the lymph nodes really swelled. Went to my Dr. Bactrim 800mg x2 Daily & Keflex 500mg x2 Daily. Did not help. Elbow Lymph Node swelled to the size of a grapefruit. This has gone on for 3 months. New Script for Bactrim 800mg x2 daily for weeks. Made another DR. appointment for this past Monday 12/01/2011. Early Monday morning it busted in my sleep, I thought I had wet the bed.

Had to hold my arm over the toilet & let the sore drain for an hour. No clear liquid thick puss. Put bandage on, went to DR, appt. She started pushing on it. The core will not come out. Some relief since it has busted. Today is 12/03/2011 I started Epson Salt Compress’s “OUCH” STILL NO CORE. I do not like pain pills, but I just took one for the pain. Have a hole in my arm that goes to the bone. It will be much larger when the core comes out. I pray I do not lose my arm. Have pictures of the progression of the staph from start until today. I need to figure out how to post them.

Brent C. H.
12/03/2011

Has anyone got any suggestions? It seems all the pictures I see of staph or mrsa are big red blotches with sores in the middle. But I do not have this……at least not yet. Any comments?

I immediately went to my Dr. the next day and thank god I did. Long story short, I don’t know where I picked it up or what happened but the two boils on my leg got HUGE and painful. It took weeks for them to heal and three different antibiotics before they started to heal. 10 months later I have black/blue/red nasty looking scars where the boils were. From what I have been told, I am a carrier for MRSA.

What finally healed me was an oral antibiotic and also a antibiotic gel that I swabbed in my nose. I was so thankful when the boils finally went away and thought I was cured for good. This week I had a small boil (looked like a little pimple) pop up on my finger. I thought, humm, did I get bit or burn myself or something? and then I said on no, MRSA?

I woke up the next day with my finger swollen and hand slightly swollen and red and red lines going up my arm. I immediately went to the Dr again. We assume it is MRSA again. Great. Anyway, I got a shot of antibiotics and am taking 4 pills a day for 10 days. Shortly after the shot, the red lines started to go away, thank god. I believe these little boils people are discussing on here are mostly probably not insect bites.

It’s MRSA. You carry it on your skin and then all you have to do is scratch and the skin opens and MRSA goes crazy. Advice for anyone/everyone on here – do not pop or pick anything open yourself. Take your butt to the Dr immediately if you have what looks like a little pimple and is sore and doesn’t go away quickly. MRSA can be deadly if left untreated and it can be hard to treat so GO TO THE DR ASAP.

Good luck everyone.

Tuesday, I noticed a lump in front of my ear, the left one, and late the night before, I’d had a slight fever, which dissipated soon after. I took myself to the ER, I have no health coverage. After waiting for 3 1/2 hrs, which is, really good here, I got in, the doc walked in, said his name, looked at my head, asked like 5 questions, rushing me through them, and then told me if it was a spider bite, my skin would be black, he gave my antibiotics and sent me home.

It got worse, the swelling was working down to cover my eye, I couldn’t see, so I went back to the ER, they admitted me, but said nothing. They “piggy-backed” antibiotics, but during this time in the hospital, I saw 5 different doctors, and not one of them spent more than 5 minutes with me. I was discharged with no diagnosis, but one doc they called in said it looks definitely like a spider bite.

I was released and then given a prescription for antibiotics,and the cost of my generic pills are $370!!!!
My swelling around my eye is very bad, and the area above my brow, is now turning black.