r/MRSA

About 2.5 years ago I was training Muay Thai in Thailand and got staph/MRSA infections. I had antibiotics and eventually got rid of the initial infections.

But ever since, I’ve kept getting recurring spots/pimples that sometimes develop into proper boils/abscesses. I’ve had roughly 12 courses of antibiotics over the last couple of years, and they still keep coming back - this is without me even training.

I’m now seeing a dermatologist to try and figure out what’s going on.

Has anyone else had something similar after getting staph from Muay Thai/BJJ/MMA - where the original infection was treated but you continued getting boils or skin infections for months/years afterwards?

I reallyyyyyy want/need to get back to Muay Thai, but this keeps stopping me. Would be really interested to hear if anyone else has dealt with this and eventually managed to get back to training normally.

plzzzz help and thanks :)

my nose feels squishier than usual, boggy, not as chiseled. it goes from feeling really firm to soft. sometimes my nostrils close in and sometimes not. i have had fevers at times, white pustules in my nose, grey colored mucus, no mucus and just an extremely dry nose that no humidifier can help. i live in fl and not even keeping my balcony door open helps. i get throbbing headaches at times. i cant breath or smell but not because of congestion it just feels blocked? i have had crusts on and off randomly form in my nose. i get serious pins and needles radiating from my nose especially when it becomes firmer. the columella in between my nostrils becomes softer to almost feeling like a part of it is bulging out. i don’t have a perforation or any tissue death but my nose just hasn’t functioned in over a month. my culture showed a heavy amount of staph.

when my nose was dry the air felt cold. i have had crusts form all over my nose. i get a metallic blood like taste in my mouth at times. other times a funky taste. after the four rounds of vancomycin these symptoms were going away. a mucus plug came out. my nose was becoming normal. and then a few days later the symptoms came back. sometimes my nose almost feels skeletal.

muciprocen worked and then while using it the scabs came back tenfold. the vancomycin was the only thing that really helped but the nurse didn’t finish a bag so i essentially got 3 1/2 rounds.

i don’t have a primary care doctor so it’s been a pain trying to find someone. i scheduled an apt but the earliest availability is october. i just feel so sad. my noses structure and function hasn’t been the same.

i can show you a baseline photo of my nose vs an after because you can visually see how puffy it looks.

when it started my nose was stretchy and it felt like 0 cartilage was left. i was able to stretch it out like mozzarella cheese. i cant think of another analogy. it’s since gotten a little firmer but hasn’t changed. when i massaged it the other day i started feeling more cartilage again like how it felt before all of this? i don’t know how this is even possible. im rlly sorry im using third grade descriptors and analogies but i cant think of any other way to explain it

Muciprocen worked until it stopped working. The strain is oaxicillin resistant. i’m allergic to bactrm. i’ve had 4 rounds of iv antibiotics (vancomycin) and then it came back. My mri was cleared and so my infectious disease doctor is refusing to give me another culture. My ent refuses to see me because I need to see an ID doctor.

I just got prescribed Bactrim after being on doxycycline for 7 days for what we thought was impetigo (it didn’t fully clear). I am getting cultured today but doc now thinks it’s MRSA. I am supposed to go to the city tonight to celebrate a promotion and was planning on having several cocktails!

I’m seeing mixed reactions and also have looked at journal articles where there really is very little human data suggesting that Bactrim and alcohol are a no go. It also does not warn me on the prescription instructions/interactions.

Should I start my first dose today and pace myself and see how I react as the night goes or should I wait to start the antibiotics tomorrow? Or should I just not go to the city.

Forgive me if this is long nobody else can relate but some of you probably could.

This is a more than 20 years ago but its a pretty wild story.

I was living on Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas doing some restoration work. On the 4th of July I felt an ingrown hair in my armpit, shrugged it off and went ro work.

By noon I had a fever and my armpit was no longer hollow but solid, hot and painful to the touch. I asked a park ranger for a hypodermic needle to relieve the swelling while I waited for a sea plane. After intibating myself I laid down and waited for the plane , I laid for nearly 12 hours.

Eventually I flew to Richmond VA where my family lived and was admitted with a fever and cellulitis across my chest. The on call saw me and quickly had me lie down while my partner laid on my legs because they feared the infection would block the anesthesia, he made a 6" incision lengthwise in my armpit and replied "oh it tunneled". After scooping out rotting flesh he packed my wound and hit me in the hip sockets with two doses of rocephrin and sent me home.

The following morning I was told to come back immediately as tissue samples were positive for a bad case of community acquired MRSA.

I was given an IV and demarol then sent to nuclear science for a Pic line and another surgery.

A woke in the infectious disease ward, my armpit was totally excavated and packed with sterile packing strip material because the wound was so large and the amount of flesh removed was significant.

I was given two bags of vancomyacin via Pic line for several hours a day, often in the middle of the evening for a week straight.

Twice daily nurses unpacked my wound and repacked it which was incredibly painful.

After a week I was released and put on home vancomyacin using the Pic line and small grenade like objects in my fridge, this lasted a month.

I was finally back at the Hospital with my Pic line removed. I won't ever forget feeling like I woukd get sick again, my infectious disease specialist offered me brief advice "wash your hands and live tour life".

To this day the scar in my armpit reminds me of this brush with death had it not been for modern medicine.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

anyone need any tips that’s going through this??

Any thoughts ?!?! Had a child with confirmed blood infection, sepsis, osteomyelitis in the humerus, septic joint, elevated wbc crp was on iv antibiotics picc line for 2 months in hospital. Had mrsa 2 months prior and this infection was noted as mssa multiple other sites with bone cortical abnormalities. With 2 pathological fractures