Infections ...

[ecivon]

I'm glad to hear that Executioner is recovering ... However, if strong advice could ever be given and followed, then if there is a risk, or even a suspicion of an infection, get medical help immediately and if your doc. isn't helping go to an emergency room. Untreated infections in the bloodstream have a 50% mortality rate even with treatment. Not to mention developing necrotizing fasciitis, where the bacteria literally eats your body. My govt. doc misdiagnosed an infection that got into my bloodstream and it f'in near did me in. This was in 1999 and I'm still dealing with the aftereffects. Like it getting into my collarbone and destroying the sternoclavicular joint, having a golf ball sized divot removed from my chest and the upper lobe of my right lung removed. It also got into my wrist and I've had about 10 operations related to this infection and a bonehead doc. It is your health and don't listen to anyone except yourself and seek 2nd opinions from potential bonehead docs. and go to emer. rooms when in doubt. I say this to this forum to stress a point -- be careful and diligent and learn from others. I don't have a moral issue with using steroids, but I do it to stay strong and healthy. Infections are clearly very serious shit.

[donopat]

worst experince i can remember. i was in terrible pain from the infection, he pulled out thos 50cc needle and jabbed it in9ot my leg pulls back all this puss was in the needle. i was mortified. very painful, bleed alt, had to get a transfusion, than they leave the packing in you and a few days later they pull it out, because they don't stitch the gash. that was so painful 20 seconds of someone just pulling you apart is what it felt like.

pattyd

[FranKieC]

I have an infection in my leg right now but not from Gear..I noticed it Sat and I was in ER Tues night and they give me IV Antibiotics and now I am on cephalexin 500mgs every six hrs..this thing huts like a bitch

[ecivon]

Let me tell you how much it hurt and I'm deathly allergic to narcotic pain medication so all they could give me was IV ibuprofen, called toradol. The freakin infection got in the collarbone joint closest to your neck and was literally eating it. My collarbone is still bowed to this day and clicks when I rotate my arm. It also got into my chest and lungs and had a huge pus pocket they removed from my chest along with part of my sternum and a rib. It poisoned my lungs with an incurable disease call progressive bilateral cycstic bronchiectasis. I just had the top portion of my right lung removed, again with no narcotic pain medication, just IV ibuprofen. When I came to from the surgery they had me strapped by all fours to the bed. I was that way for several days -- man I was pissed off at the world. The infection was in 1999 and the lung was removed this past March. The f***kin infection has lingered on for this long. The only reason I'm saying this is if anyone even 'Thinks' they might have an infection get your ass to the doctor, or emergency room. It can seriously fuk you up big time. It can kill you, or maim you faster than you think. I was given last rites, but I'm a single father raising three boys and I was not going to go down without one big freakin fight. Infections are serious shit.

[shrpskn]

Let me tell you how much it hurt and I'm deathly allergic to narcotic pain medication so all they could give me was IV ibuprofen, called toradol. The freakin infection got in the collarbone joint closest to your neck and was literally eating it. My collarbone is still bowed to this day and clicks when I rotate my arm. It also got into my chest and lungs and had a huge pus pocket they removed from my chest along with part of my sternum and a rib. It poisoned my lungs with an incurable disease call progressive bilateral cycstic bronchiectasis. I just had the top portion of my right lung removed, again with no narcotic pain medication, just IV ibuprofen. When I came to from the surgery they had me strapped by all fours to the bed. I was that way for several days -- man I was pissed off at the world. The infection was in 1999 and the lung was removed this past March. The f***kin infection has lingered on for this long. The only reason I'm saying this is if anyone even 'Thinks' they might have an infection get your ass to the doctor, or emergency room. It can seriously fuk you up big time. It can kill you, or maim you faster than you think. I was given last rites, but I'm a single father raising three boys and I was not going to go down without one big freakin fight. Infections are serious shit.

Sorry to here about your misfortune...

[ecivon]

Thanks Shrpskn ... But as they say. one man's nightmares are another's dreams. No time to feel sorry for myself -- lots of kids have it much, much worse. I'm only putting it out here because so many are talking about infections -- goes with the territory running cycles. They need to be taken real seriously.