r/MRSA

Hi all!

I am new to this skin abcess stuff.

Long story short, I've never had skin abcesses until 7 days ago (Sunday night).

I noticed a small pimple with a white/yellow head on my right lower abdomen and decided to squeeze it. Well bad idea.

The next morning (Momday) it was painful and pink in that area. I put mupirocin cream on it (my bf suffers from MRSA abcesses occasionally so he had a full tube of antibiotic at home).

I then went to urgent care Tuesday since it had gotten more pink and was spreading. The Dr prescribed Bactrim 2x a day for 10 days and told me to keep applying Mupirocin ointment.

Well, the first few days (Mon-Thu) I was off balanced, weak, and extremely fatigued. It seemed I had a low grade fever of 99.4 too.

Friday my energy returned. But my pimple abcess got aggravated since my toddler brushed/pushed it by accident and I banged it on the corner of a chair.

Now it looks a darker pink and is still painful.

Mind you, when I take hot showers, there seems to be a stubborn pinpoint collections of pus that comes to the surface but it's not a lot. And it is not runny.

So my question is, is it supposed to drain eventually? Do I need to to get it drained? Or will my body absorb it? How long till it calls down and goes away?

I feel a lump the size of the head of my thumb underneath the red skin discoloration.

I'm not sure on what's the most effective way to sanitize clothes for decolonisation. Can I soak them in dettol? Or maybe wash with chlorhexidine?

I recently had a portacath removed due to a klebsiella pneumonia and pseudomonas infection. Tried cefepime through a picc and midline with no luck. Vancomycin caused red man syndrome. Fluoroquinolones are contraindicated for me due to ehlers danlos. They had kept my surgical wound open and it’s finally sealed after almost 4 months now. I had cultures taken last week and then had a follow up with infectious disease specialist and was immediately sent to the hospital as I now have MRSA. They did an echo of my heart to make sure it hasn’t reached there but I haven’t gotten results yet. All I know so far is i will be on antibiotics for 4 weeks.

Why is this so painful? I feel like every inch of my body has been repeatedly stomped on or like I was in a car accident. My legs hurt so bad