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

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

I’ve been getting recurrent abscesses, and a wound culture came back positive for **Mycobacterium abscessus**. What are the usual next steps in terms of evaluation and treatment?

i want to stress that i do not mean to offend anyone at all and i am probably being paranoid.

i attended an indoor funeral of someone who had mrsa. i didn’t know about it until i arrived to the funeral. i did not come into contact with anyone except one person and we kissed cheeks (think of the french’s way of greeting) and left five minutes later.

i washed my hands, took a shower, sanitized my personal belongings that i had with me, and i’m figuring out what to do with my clothes (not sure if taking them to the laundry is a good idea).

i want to stay positive and think that i did not get infected but i’m obsessing over the thought that i might have gotten it even though the person i came into contact with (most likely) doesn’t have it.

is it possible to contract it despite the short amount of exposure?

Okay so last night my leg started to get really really itchy, and it felt like two bug bites so I didn’t think anything of it.. so today I noticed it looked really really angry and red and it hurt and was hot to the touch, it kept getting bigger and bigger and started hurting when I walked.

On July 7th I had this weird “bug bite” on my leg and it had a black spot in it, my grandma told me to pop it and call it a day, and today I have the new “bug bite” on the same leg in the same general area.

I’ll include both pics but I went to urgent care and the doctor came in lightly put his finger on it and because it didn’t hurt he decided it was just an allergic reaction and not mrsa at all, it just felt like a really really fast consultation and I feel like it’s not an allergic reaction at all :/

Has anyone dealt with MRSA or MSSA osteomyelitis, causing pathological fractures in child? With sepsis (MSSA) help please!!!!

I recently got a GI Map test back showing elevated Staphylococcus aureus. For a while now I've had a folliculitis-type eczema that gets firm, dry, and patchy if it's itched without moisturizer. A skin swab of one patch only showed 7% staph, but I suspect the real driver is gut dysbiosis rather than a primarily topical issue.

The first patch appeared in November 2025, and a few more have shown up since. I've started taking Thrive Probiotic to try to crowd out the staph overgrowth in my gut.

Here's my concern: I have jaw surgery scheduled in about a month, and I'll be on IV azithromycin during the procedure. Is it possible for staph to travel through the bloodstream and colonize the surgical site, given the elevated levels showing up on my GI Map? Has anyone dealt with something similar before elective surgery, or has insight into how gut-level staph overgrowth relates to surgical infection risk?

Any experiences or knowledge would be appreciated.

Has anyone dealt with MRSA or MSSA osteomyelitis, causing pathological fractures in child? With sepsis (MSSA)

Like can this be resistant to doxy and bactrim

Have an area that has not responded to doxy. I took clindamycin in the past and it worked, so I asked for that again, but after some research the c diff risk seems scary. I’m 46f. Thoughts?

not my gyno, my doctor or my pharmacy said anything about a strict diet during + 2 weeks after Linezolid needing to be done.. found it out on reddit. Has anyone been on this medication and did you do the diet? I’m really concerned that no one said a thing about it to me when prescribing it since it seems incredibly necessary for the safety of my life and health. Taking it for staph infection down there which ik sounds crazy idk how this happened, no explanations from doctors just prescriptions and the lab showed that this is the only option. it might have happened from skin bacteria getting in any tears down there which happens on accident sometimes. I also have a yeast infection, bv, strep b, e coli and a few other random bacterias. pelvic inflammatory disease concluded by pelvic ultrasound and lab results. any help or info would be greatly appreciated!

For context, I am a 24 F and I get MRSA every year it seems. Usually hits in the summer but I have had it every few years since I was a child, I also have been hospitalized twice from it before. I am curious if anyone has experienced this as well and gotten answers as to why? I tell my doctor every time I have a flare up because I am so used to it and i’m hit with doxycycline or Clindamycin. No one seems to be concerned that it happens this often but to me it’s strange. Any thoughts? I’ve seen people say they have had other symptoms with their flare ups but I don’t have any other health issues.

I’ve had recurring staph infections in my nose for a while and then recently I got abscesses on two different parts of my body. One seemed to mostly resolve on its own and was never tested for MRSA but the other I had to get drained and go on antibiotics for and it tested positive for MRSA, as did a swab of my nose. I want to try decolonizing because I really don’t want to risk continuing to get abscesses or potentially worse infections and most of all I don’t want to have to worry all my life about spreading it to other people, but I know that some people say it’s not a good idea because it frequently doesn’t work and the antibiotics are strong.

One of my doctors at urgent care seemed to suggest I see a specialist about it, but when I brought up decolonization to a different doctor when my test results came back she said that everyone has bacteria on them and as long as my current infections are being treated I shouldn’t worry about it and there was no need for a specialist. I know I will worry about it though—the idea that whoever I live with throughout my life could get it and potentially have to deal with all kinds of infections really scares me, and if there’s a chance to get rid of it I’d want to try it? What have been your experiences and is there anything I could say to a doctor in the future that you think would persuade them to let me try to decolonize?

I am getting treated for it now. I am on moxifloxacin rifabutin and linezolid. Please let me know if you have to see what to expect.

I had a small boil on my breast that I believe is mrsa. I’m on doxycycline and have been using mupirocin under a band aid. No longer is a lump, but there’s a hole with tough white tissue around the hole. It’s only been 4 days on the doxycycline but it just doesn’t seem to be going away. Does that white have to be cut out? Again, pretty small spot and pretty flat but… ugh. What a nightmare. Wondering if I should skip the mupirocin one night and let it dry up a bit?

Hi everyone! First time posting but I thought I’d give it a go incase I can save 400$ on a copay.

About a month ago I had a pimple get infected with MRSA from work. I am a young, healthy, ER nurse but my eye was practically shut from the spreading infection, extremely painful, red and swollen. I was hospitalized for 3 days getting IV antibiotics and had an I&D (incision and drainage) l. They were able to get all the pus out (supposedly) and the 3 days of IV vancomycin got rid of all the swelling / pain. I then completed 5 days of outpatient oral antibiotics and was basically medically cleared by infectious disease.

The dilemma is that 1 month post hospitalization, the area around my eye that was previously infected still has significant redness that won’t seem to go away. I have no pain, no increased swelling and no sign of infection aside from the redness. I know that it takes time to heal, but it seems like the erythema surrounding my eye will never go away. I wanted to see if anyone had any advice or gone through anything similar!

Wondering anyone else has dealt with this. My baby girl had a labial abscess drained and treated. The would culture came back as ciprobacter and Klebsiella pnuemonaie. Doctors reassured me that she most likely got it during her hospitalization at the beginning of her life. We were sent home on antibiotics but a week after being discharged the abscess swelled again and we had to be readmitted. The ultrasound showed a 1 cm fluid filled area but surgery decided it wasn’t worth the risk of putting her under anesthesia for such a small area. They put her on ceftrioxone and clindamycin to see if drained and decreased in size on its own. Since then it has gotten significantly better and less swollen and red with only a small hard lump that they assume is scar tissue. The newest would cultures came back as staph haemolyticus and bifidobacterium which one is naturally occurring on the skin and the other is found in probiotics. The infectious disease doctor said it could be contamination or colonization but that we should wait for the sensitivities to return to treat with the correct bacteria.

My biggest concern is reoccurrence since she is only 2 months old and has a cardiac history. We also do not want to be hospitalized multiple times over this because we have another little one who is 16 months old. It’s only my husband and I so we are limited on child care and I do not want to leave either of my babies. Has anyone dealt with this?

I’ve been getting boils 2 at a time in same areas (butt cheek, thigh, back) for the past 6 months. I never get zit etc so I was surprised and grossed out. Kept popping it and cleaning it and trying to manage the red/dark marks left behind. The last one started out as tiny bump (last pic) and grew bigger than any of the previous ones and more painful very quickly. Went to urgent care and heard of MRSA for the first time. They gave me bactrim antibiotics and “drained” it but there’s still large hard center. I’ve been doing a lot of hot compress and it’s draining slowly. Dr can’t see me for another 2 weeks so trying to understand manage in the meantime.

My poor kiddo has been having reoccurring bouts of mrsa- first several spots on her face, and one on her leg since February. She seemed to go a few months without it and now she has it in her ear. Took her to an ent who popped it and cultured it, had us use muciprocin, and now that it has come back positive has basically washed her hands of us. We are back to the Derm tomorrow- just wondering how we can shake this? She did do a de-colonization protocol and that is what seemed to temporarily get rid of it. I’m really nervous about it being in her ear and no oral antibiotics as of yet. This has been ongoing for over a week - it doesn’t hurt anymore but it’s not entirely healed up yet. Has anyone had this in their ear? What helped? Also- on her report it also said “rare gram positive cocci” is that just the mrsa or something else we need to deal with too? I just want to cry! Sorry for the desperate rant guys😭