pics of my leg 3 months post flesh eating disease

[Fritzo]

Man, your leg must have been delicious! Glad you're OK

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Were you injecting bath salts?

http://gma.yahoo.com/bath-salts-injection-leads-flesh-eating-disease-140407827.html

 

[Jodell88]

Were you injecting bath salts?

http://gma.yahoo.com/bath-salts-injection-leads-flesh-eating-disease-140407827.html

Hmmmmm :hmm:

EDIT: Time warp!!!

 

[FoBoT]

Were you injecting bath salts?

http://gma.yahoo.com/bath-salts-injection-leads-flesh-eating-disease-140407827.html

holy crap
holy crap
holy crap

They treated a 34-year-old woman who developed forearm pain and redness after she attended a party. She didn't have any other symptoms but did have a small red puncture wound on her arm. The woman eventually admitted that she injected bath salts two days before her symptoms began.
The doctors reexamined her and determined that she had necrotizing fasciitis. The disease progressed so rapidly that the doctors had to amputate the woman's arm, shoulder and collarbone and perform a radical mastectomy.

holy crap
holy crap
holy crap

 

[TheNinja]

Were you injecting bath salts?

http://gma.yahoo.com/bath-salts-injection-leads-flesh-eating-disease-140407827.html

Is that like that Russian drug Krokodil (aka crocodile) or something?

Anyway to OP - dang that is some scary $hit!!

 

[manimal]

Glad your ok op. Do you get any sort of itching there?

 

[tokie]

Jesus christ.

Congratulations on beating it dude.

I always get creeped out by diseases that are really unstoppable and that can kill any healthy person in days without any notice.

 

[RossMAN]

holy crap
holy crap
holy crap
holy crap
holy crap
holy crap

You DO NOT want to Google images search for necrotizing fasciitis or is it too late?

 

[mcmilljb]

You DO NOT want to Google images search for necrotizing fasciitis or is it too late?

It's not the sight that will haunt you forever. It's the smell. Rotting flesh smells horrible.

 

[eits]

glad you're ok, man.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Glad to see you're doing okay. Necrotizing fasciitis can be a bitch.

It's not the sight that will haunt you forever. It's the smell. Rotting flesh smells horrible.

Saw a case in OR. Didn't smell too bad. Looked bad, but no smell. Maybe it was covered up by air con and all the chlorhexidine that was used.

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 ...

Not sure where you get your information from...GBS usually only infects immunocompromised individuals. When it does it causes serious disease, but it's quite rare in healthy adults. While necrotizing fasciitis caused by GBS is extremely dangerous, so is NF caused by any other bacterium, and with MRSA- or polymicrobial NF we don't have the luxury of using simple penicillins - with MRSA and polymicrobial disease we are having to use the likes of vancomycin, linezolid, aztreonam, and the penems to treat.

Also. The antibiotics we use for MRSA are not 'stronger' than other antibiotics - compared to straight amoxicillin, the likes of nafcillin, flucloxacillin, and vancomycin used to treat MRSA are actually weaker against susceptible bacteria. We use these because we have no choice - bacteria have developed widespread resistance to the better, more commonly used antibiotics, and we are lucky enough to have developed some that rely on a different enough mechanism of action, or can counteract bacterial defense mechanisms, to halt or reverse the growth of these bacteria in the body, even though they do the job relatively poorly.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

This reminds me of the stupid chick on survivor who, upon hearing of another players appendicitis, said "how do i keep from hurting my appendix?"

 

[God Mode]

I would've slapped on some neosporin and called it a day. Glad you're okay, OP.

 

[God Mode]

It's not the sight that will haunt you forever. It's the smell. Rotting flesh smells horrible.

Ever smell expired ham? The putrid smell...