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Doctors of atot..is this staph? gross pic inside edit: new pic

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TraumaRN said:
Don't take home antibiotics. Cipro wouldn't be too much help and it'll further any future antibiotic resistance. Go see a doctor, preferably your primary care doctor.

Otherwise I'd hit up an actual ER for antibiotics. Don't goto an urgent care, many of those are staffed by flaming fucking idiots.

I'm an ER nurse, and that is pretty much to the point of needing antibiotics.
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Until your insurance bills you an extra $200 non-emergency penalty on top of your $200 ER co-pay.

/works for an EMS Flight Transport company
//Has shitty insurance
///Company submits bills to insurance companies that average over $20k+ for one way flights.
 
TraumaRN said:
Don't take home antibiotics. Cipro wouldn't be too much help and it'll further any future antibiotic resistance. Go see a doctor, preferably your primary care doctor.

Otherwise I'd hit up an actual ER for antibiotics. Don't goto an urgent care, many of those are staffed by flaming fucking idiots.

I'm an ER nurse, and that is pretty much to the point of needing antibiotics.
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Normally agree. But the one by me is part of a hospital/ER so there's a doctor on staff and full access to whatever is needed.

When I went in for signs of an infection I went to the ER for possible MRSA/flesh eating bacteria because it was in my mind a medical emergency and I wanted access to IV antibiotics as quick as possible if that was required.

They gave me Bactrim and I took it religiously ever 12 hours. Worked like a champ, only stomach problems was constant farting. Which was nice because when the wife complained I could blame it on the medicine.
 
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PS to help with the digestive system during a run of antibiotics, make sure to eat some yogurt (with the live cultures). Can help a lot.
 
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PS to help with the digestive system during a run of antibiotics, make sure to eat some yogurt (with the live cultures). Can help a lot.
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I took some a few months ago.. not prescribed to me, but it felt like a good idea. There was no solid waste for a week....

I think I ate some yogurt after I stopped drugging myself.
 
I've been getting tons of ingrown hairs/cellulitis the past few years. Infections suck ass. I think it's the reason why I feel off all the time.

Get an ingrown hair in your nose and then have a marble sized swollen staph infection in your nostril like I did. THAT SHIT was awful.
 
This thread made me Google pics of maggot debridement while eating pizza.

Btw medical maggots are lab grown and sterile, so its not "nasty" like people picture rotting trash and maggots being "dirty". Its quite effective. Their digestive byproducts/ excretion also has anti bacterial properties.

Leeches are also used to restore distal blood circulation in re attached limbs. Without the leeches, it wouldn't be possible to restore the limb, esp smaller items with lots of capillaries that are impossible to restore blood flow otherwise.

Nature has already perfected nanotechnology, why reinvent the wheel even if we could?
 
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spidey07 said:
Maybe you're one of the folks that has it on your skin? Everybody has staph on their skin which is why you should thoroughly clean and take care of any break in the skin as soon as possible. Not everybody has the MRSA strain. You could ask your doctor next time and maybe they can do a culture.
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I probably have, considering the fact of how many times I've had staph.
 
OK it has not expanded past where I circled it yesterday, my foot is a little swollen though compared to my other but I still do not have pain
 
HOW you got this is a pretty big thing to know If it just appeared, thats nastier then you had a big cut that is now a little red and scabby
 
I'm not trying to turn this into a political thing, and you can say it's just my biased opinion as a Canadian, but this thread is a textbook definition of what's wrong with the American medical system.

I assume this guy not going is due to a fear of what it will cost. This is ridiculous. Sure it costs me money and I rarely ever use the medical services, but it's a price I'm willing to pay because I know how important it is to have access to these services. Everyone contributes, everyone has access when they need it. Do some people abuse the system and not contribute, passing on extra costs to everyone else? Sure, so what? Chances are there's a lot of shit going on in their lives and they probably don't need medical or psychological problems making things even harder on them. If my small contribution can help take one concern away from them, allow them to get the treatment they need and possibly help them get back on their feet, it's worth it.

Sawyer, you need antibiotics.
 
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