re: Staph infections fricking hurt

I had it on my hip like senior year of high school. It was a giant boil on the right side of my hip. It had bothered me for a few days, but at this point I'm months away from graduation, I just finished 4 years of high school football, so in my mind I'm a man and I don't feel any pain. I can tough it through anything.

Well, one morning, the pain became too unbearable. I woke up crying and begging for my mom like I was 3 again. She took me to urgent care immediately.

When they drained it, I legit had a big hole on my hip. Had a scar for years. If I could never go through that again in life, that would be great.

I currently have a good size one on my rib cage area and arm. Hurts like a mf. Second one in as many months. First one i had cleaned out and got antibiotics for but left alot of scar tissue, looked like i had been shot in that area. It's def not something you want to play around with. Been showering with Hibiclyns and putting Mupirocin on it. If it doesn't get better i will be going to the doctor again.

That sounds like one of those old wives/wise tales. Cut a fresh onion, it saps viruses out of the air!

Y'all have me scared shitless.

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Try a fresh slice of potato taped over the area and leave it on for a few hours if you can. Will suck out the bad stuff and no side effects. Repeat for a couple of days. Worked on my wife's staph infection boil she had on her knee.

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Wash with actual anti-bacterial soap like Dial. I’ve had it from shaving my legs before (no pics) and my doc said just regularly wash with Dial and don’t reuse old razor blades.

I had a cluster of little bumps with a couple single bumps, and they all went away after carefully washing with Dial for a couple of weeks. That was for just the beginning of an infection though, but a good anti-bacterial soap will help prevent future breakouts.

Now I don’t even use shave gel, I just lather up with lavender Dial and shave my legs with it.

RIP. You got monkey pox staph.

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Man,go to Dr. now.That shite eats a hole in your rib cage and gets into your pleural cavity you’ll be fricked.

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Got an appt scheduled tom.

Had the exact same thing happen to me in 06. I was finishing up some base and shoe molding at a friends house that was damaged by Katrina.

On my knees all day nailing in the molding and noticed a sharp pain in my right knee. Got home, took a shower and broke out the tweezers to remove an ingrown hair that was the culprit.

Three days later my knee is swelling badly, 2 more days later and I'm purple, yellow, brown from damn near mid thigh to ankle.

Spent a week in West Jeff. Hospital after they opened up my knee to drain it and had 2 rubber tubes draining the wound the entire time while Vancomysin was being IV'd into my veins 24/7.

Staph is nothing to be played around with. Get on it early and stick with the meds until it's gone.

Norco for a staph infection??

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Norco for a staph infection??

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When your flesh is quite literally rotting off the bone, it causes a little bit of pain.