Cellulitis is no joke:
So the next day after my thanksgiving meal with my family, I went back to work but then I started feelling like crap, I started getting a fever and weird visions, (my co-worker said I was saying some weird things.) I went home early, I left my Duster at the parking lot and had my wife pick me up since I was not in a condition to drive. Then my left lower leg started hurting in the middle of that night. The next night (Since I slept all day) the pain got worse and started flaring up with what I at first thought was some kind of rash.
Nope, my wife saw it and said it was giving her red flags, so into the Emergency Clinic I go since it was 10 pm that night. The doctor on shift confirmed that I had cellulitus. So he prescribed me an antibiotic.
3 days later my left leg swelled up to my groin and to almost my toes. I then go to my regular doctors at the clinic I normally go to, both he & she looked at my leg they both concluded it is not getting any better, they give me an IV with a different antibiotic and got a blood sample from me. They confirmed I had a MRSA strain of the infection, they also noted that I had nearly double the amount of normal white blood cells (which is indicative of a major infection). My reading was at 19,000 (5000-10000 is normal range).
So, basically MRSA is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to common antibitiotics and is also highly adaptable.
So then I got prescribed with 3 different "really strong" antibiotics all of them sulphur based for 10 days. Not fun... They told me to hydrate like crazy while taking these or I will get kidney stones, and oh yeah the diarrhea was not fun either as the antibiotics wrecked havoc with my prebiotic and probiotics in my gut.
The constant urinating that smelt of rotten eggs was horrible, and the gut wrenching splooshing in the toilet was horrible, all while my leg is throbbing in intense pain that makes a grown man cry.
I wouldn't wish this on my worst of enemies, especially on the holidays...
Happy Holidays folks!
Nov. 29:
Dec 3 & 4:
Dec. 9:
Dec. 14: (Things finally improved, swelling went down, and the infection finally stopped eating into my flesh, the itching afterwards was horrible).
So the next day after my thanksgiving meal with my family, I went back to work but then I started feelling like crap, I started getting a fever and weird visions, (my co-worker said I was saying some weird things.) I went home early, I left my Duster at the parking lot and had my wife pick me up since I was not in a condition to drive. Then my left lower leg started hurting in the middle of that night. The next night (Since I slept all day) the pain got worse and started flaring up with what I at first thought was some kind of rash.
Nope, my wife saw it and said it was giving her red flags, so into the Emergency Clinic I go since it was 10 pm that night. The doctor on shift confirmed that I had cellulitus. So he prescribed me an antibiotic.
3 days later my left leg swelled up to my groin and to almost my toes. I then go to my regular doctors at the clinic I normally go to, both he & she looked at my leg they both concluded it is not getting any better, they give me an IV with a different antibiotic and got a blood sample from me. They confirmed I had a MRSA strain of the infection, they also noted that I had nearly double the amount of normal white blood cells (which is indicative of a major infection). My reading was at 19,000 (5000-10000 is normal range).
So, basically MRSA is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to common antibitiotics and is also highly adaptable.
So then I got prescribed with 3 different "really strong" antibiotics all of them sulphur based for 10 days. Not fun... They told me to hydrate like crazy while taking these or I will get kidney stones, and oh yeah the diarrhea was not fun either as the antibiotics wrecked havoc with my prebiotic and probiotics in my gut.
The constant urinating that smelt of rotten eggs was horrible, and the gut wrenching splooshing in the toilet was horrible, all while my leg is throbbing in intense pain that makes a grown man cry.
I wouldn't wish this on my worst of enemies, especially on the holidays...
Happy Holidays folks!
Nov. 29:
Dec 3 & 4:
Dec. 9:
Dec. 14: (Things finally improved, swelling went down, and the infection finally stopped eating into my flesh, the itching afterwards was horrible).
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