Got a super nice doctor who gave me a shot of lanocaine -which hurt but not as bad as the last guy and he packed it with medicated gauze. I went to another doctor 2 days later and he removed it and said it looked good. Still on anti botics. Guys don’t feel around with this stuff or you’ll end up having your arm or something else amputated. Keep your wound bandaged. Get some non stick gauze and put a little triple antibiotic on it to keep it from sticking to your wound. I would keep it dry and not get it wet when showering

The bite got infected and caused an abscess to form under my skin. I had to have it surgically removed or the infection would enter my bloodstream. I had emergency surgery Mon night. My wound was about 4cm deep and 8 cm wide. What happened after that was a nightmare. I was given IV antiobiotics of Vancomycin, however, my body had a reaction and my kidneys went into acute failure. I had gained almost 40 pounds of fluid. I had to have 4 treatments of dialysis including a blood transfusion to try to restart my kidneys to normal function. After 14 days in the hospital, my kidneys started to function properly and after 16 days I was released. I had to have a home health nurse to visit twice a week to change the dressings on the wound. By the way, I was on a Wound Vac which really help heal the wound quickly.

Now I am doing well and thank God for my recovery. My doctor told me if I waited another day, the Mercer Staph infection would have infected my bloodstream and would not be here today. So please take this seriously!!!!! If you have an infection like the photos picture through this forum, go to the doctor or ER immediately!!!!!!

Then it started to scab. I thought it would last a while and dry out. But its been 2 weeks and the original sore is about the size of a dime and after i shower the scabbing comes off and clearly i have a crater on my leg. Also in the last week i got another about 3 inches above the other and i did NOT tamper with that one it still manages to leak out some clear fluid and it has stayed pretty much the same size. I was doing peroxide washes, and also lime juice washes that seem to ease itching and also dry out the sore. It has been clearing the sores really well on one leg and i was pretty sure it would be gone withing a week.

Today i noticed another white “pimple” on my opposite leg and since I’m in the gym everyday i thought it was nothing more than a sweat pimple. So i popped it thinking there’s no way whatever this is can travel through my body to this leg. And it’s already swelling up. I’m going to the doctor ASAP which is tomorrow, and i hope this goes away. I haven’t gone yet because, again, i’m used to swelling and blistering from insect bites, but i decided to do some research today and it’s pretty scary knowing what can potentially happen if left untreated.

Told as understood from the doctors at the ER:

I had some kind of cut or scratch at the cuticle area around the nail on my hand. I was cooking chicken for dinner that night. I ate dinner washed my hands like always and my boyfriend and I watched a movie. I fell asleep during the movie and when I woke my finger already started to swell.

Over that night my finger swelled to about an inch or more around and felt very tight. I had thought I may slept on wrong anything other than the worse. I had a remaining portion of antibotics and pain meds left from when I was sick a couple of months earlier. I started to take those that night. I was in high hopes that it would go away the next day and it didn’t. It become worse.

I decided I better go to the emergency room as I didn’t want it to get any worse. The looked at my finger and gave me shots at the base of my finger to release some pain as they lanced my cuticle. When they lanced it puss shot out and they drained it.

The ER Doctor told me that the juice from the chicken got into the sore and started the staph infection. He told me that because I already started the antibiotics in the beginning that it didn’t get as worse as it could have. For it to completely heal, it took about 4 weeks.

However, my finger does look a little odd and slightly bigger from the infection.

If there are any signs, then I would strongly suggest going to the doctor or even an emergency care facility. The sooner it is treated the better

All 4 times I had cultured and they were MSRA. The last time I had one in July and was so sick I ended up in the hospital for over 8 days. My folic acid was extremely low, I had anemia very bad and a liver infection from the MSRA. I lost my job due to the time off of work and the fact that it is contagious.

My thought is that the bite is not the worse thing but getting an infection that develops into MSRA. I have talked to numerous specialists and they all say I will develop this again. I have 2 small children at home so I have to be very careful about them getting this.

I disinfect my bathroom daily with Clorox especially when I brush my teeth or use the toilet. My kitchen has to be disinfected also. Also, do not let your children sit on your bed or use your personal towel or any personal items you use. I also have to wash my body daily with a special soap that removes the MRSA from my skin to be less contagious to other people. A person can die from MRSA because it attacks your body. I don’t know the solution and neither do the doctors. Good luck.