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Quote From: larsen5

I am a 34 year housewife with 3 children. About 8 months ago I discovered a boil on my butt area which I thought was an ingrown hair.  I did try to pop it and deal with it myself until it became extemely painful. (I was 9 months pregnant at the time and a week before my scheduled c-section)  I went to the hospital and the doctors cut it open, drained and packed it with antibiotics.  (forgot to take a culture) Next week I go into the hospital for  my c-section.  After being home for 3 days I begin to feel pain in my shin. I call my OB and they say it's not their problem, call an orthopedist.  I waited till my follow up apointment with the OB a few days later and complained again.  Finally, that day she sent me to get an x-ray, right after that emergency MRI and then admitted into the hospital. All this in a 8 hour period. I was hooked up to IV's until that sent me home with a pic line in my arm to get IV antibiotics at home for 3 months.  They knew I had an infection but did not know what kind.  Two weeks later, I told my infectious disease doctor my leg was getting worse. He didn't think so by the blood work.  I decided to get a second opinion. This doctor sent me to an orthopedic surgeon who decided to cut open my shin and find out what the exact infection was.  I had surgury on my leg, they took cultures and found out the infection was MRSA and the first antibiotic wasn't working. The infection had spread from my butt area with the boil, into my blood and into my bones.  They changed the medicine and I was feeling better in a couple of days. I continued IV antibiotics for 3 months the took oral medicine for 2 weeks. Since then I have had 2 more cases. I have been in the hospital 3 times in 6 months.  The last time the boil was in my nose and grew in 8 hours.  I have medicine in my cabinet to take soon as I see any kind of boil because it becomes so serious so QUICK.  I fear for my family. Noone knows how I got it. My immune system was weaker because I was pregnant. My husband works in an Athletic Department at a University and goes to a gym 5 days a week. I am no longer allowed to wash his clothes. I use LYSOL on everything and bleach what ever I can.  The doctors tried a cleansing on my husband and I. We took medicine, put medicine in our nose, cut our nails off and washed our whole body with surgical soap for 2 weeks. The doctors say it might help, but they don't know. I can get it tomorrow or I can get again in 30 years. I have CA-MRSA, which is MRSA from the community.  I try to be clean do the best I can and Pray it doesn't happened again.