pics of my leg 3 months post flesh eating disease

[zinfamous]

You are extremely fortunate that you didn't lose your leg, and even more.

That is one scary motherfucking bug.

Gl on your recovery.

 

[brainhulk]

It could have intected your johnson and thenw would you have been ?

yeah, but then doctors could have grafted a huge penor from ass muscle. And then he could have been inZaneJohnson the pornstar

 

[bfdd]

grats on surviving.

 

[dud]

I've had MRSA and it is nothing to laugh at. It took some of the strongest antibiotics and a good dose of Prednisone to beat it back.

Strep B eats MRSA for lunch. Without modern medical treatment the OP would have been gone a long time ago.

Good luck recouping op ...

 

[911paramedic]

There are some scary little bastards out there, that's for damn sure.

 

[gothamhunter]

Dr House in the making?

 

[Dari]

How did you get that anyway? ...isn't that a common problem with injected drug users?

Stop sharing dirty needles with other junkies?

Oh dammmmn. But seriously how did you get this and how can I ensure I never get it?

PLEASE say you were sharing needles or running around a swamp in the Congo.

Why won't you answer where you got it from?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

dont you think thats a little bit of an extreme measure to go to in order to get a narcotic perscription?

 

[darkxshade]

I know we like to rail on the OP for his indiscretions but I'm glad you made out OK, wouldn't wish that on anyone.

That said, how much "medical marijuana" did you smoke?

 

[zanejohnson]

Why won't you answer where you got it from?

it just came out of the blue, well I had stayed a weekend at my gfs house just relaxing spending time ya know, that was when I first noticed the bump...went to the doc because it was way more painful than it looked (tissue on the inside was already necrotic probably) next day I'm in excruciating pain and go to er..

 

[destrekor]

Why won't you answer where you got it from?

I'll play devil's advocate here...

because it's almost impossible to know, when you live in a developed country and didn't travel outside of said country?

It's not like Strep B proudly makes itself visible wherever it likes to stop for a few moments to rest. Just like MRSA, without extensive research, backtracking, and the testing of possible sites of origin (expensive as fuck if not quite simply impossible?), you won't truly know where it came from.


Zane, was a Brown Recluse completely ruled out? Or was the PCP still leaning heavily towards that as the first issue that got the ball rolling?

 

[Pray To Jesus]

the original boil looked identical to a recluse bite, my pcp thought that's what it was too...at some point strep b was introduced to the open boil...but it could be from anywhere brush up against something where that nasty bacteria happens to be...its really a rare, bacterial infection..one that eats you from the inside out and is incredibly aggressive

That aint a recluse bite!

Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), commonly known as flesh-eating disease or Flesh-eating bacteria syndrome,[1] is a rare infection of the deeper layers of skin and subcutaneous tissues, easily spreading across the fascial plane within the subcutaneous tissue.
Necrotizing fasciitis is a quickly progressing and severe disease of sudden onset and is usually treated immediately with high doses of intravenous antibiotics.
Type I describes a polymicrobial infection, whereas Type II describes a monomicrobial infection. Many types of bacteria can cause necrotizing fasciitis (e.g., Group A streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes), Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio vulnificus, Clostridium perfringens, Bacteroides fragilis). Such infections are more likely to occur in people with compromised immune systems.[2]
Historically, Group A streptococcus made up most cases of Type II infections. However, since as early as 2001, another serious form of monomicrobial necrotizing fasciitis has been observed with increasing frequency.[3] In these cases, the bacterium causing it is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a strain of S. aureus that is resistant to methicillin, the antibiotic used in the laboratory that determines the bacterium's sensitivity to flucloxacillin or nafcillin that would be used for treatment clinically.
Several studies[4] have demonstrated a link between absorption of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and flesh-eating disease, though it has not been established whether the drugs just masked the symptoms or were a cause per se.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Didn't you tell us you got bitten by a Brown Recluse?

 

[SagaLore]

No way it was brown recluse. I've seen enough pictures of brown recluse bites to tell the difference.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2221748&highlight=brown+recluse

 

[Savarak]

with or without a brown recluse bite... 100% fatality rate

 

[piasabird]

Time to bug bomb the entire neighborhood.

 

[zanejohnson]

Time to bug bomb the entire neighborhood.

here's his it looked when I went to the doctor

 

[Gothgar]

Gross

 

[SagaLore]

here's his it looked when I went to the doctor

I see a bandage adhesive pattern around it. Did you try covering the bite when you first got it?

 

[brainhulk]

damn, there's a pt right now in the ICU that has Group A Strep necrotizing fasciitis. He works in a machine factory and received a foot laceration.

 

[Locut0s]

Damn! Congrats on beating that! As others have mentioned you got lucky NF can easily kill you.

 

[highland145]

Zane, I'll be expecting videos like this in a month or 2.

Best of.

 

[Jeffg010]

Damn I'm scared now of getting a cut.

 

[Old Hippie]

Wow!

I'm glad you got it under control!

Good Luck!