MRSA Notes

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• suzanne // May 29, 2007 at 4:29 pm

  need someonr to talk yo have just found myself and now my son have mrsa could only have got at birth of my son cannot get any help at my gp or hospital nobody wants to take responsability please help dont think i can go cope anymore need an ear and advice

• Ms. Delyte. // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:23 am

  how did you go about suing the hosptial where you contracted mrsa? I went in the hospital because my doctor ordered an ct scan of the chest area because I had been having chest pain for some time for over a year off and on upon taking deep breaths. It was found that I had several clots in my lung and required a stay in the hospital for 6 days. Well on the fifth day, it was found that I had MRSA. I believe I had contracted this at the hospital. I was already sick and to know that I had that, I was ready to go home. The staff acted indifferent. One nurse stood at the door rather than coming in my room to see why I had rang. Remember at this point, I didn’t know I had Mrsa. I just thought it was sort of weird for the nurse to stand at the door when a patient calls. So I finally asked her why she was standing at the door and that is when she said “they didn’t tell you that you had Mrsa”. I said “WHAT”!! I am thinking with all the blood work they were doing from 12/8/07 to 12/14/06 they should have been able to see something. I know that it takes two days to culture blood or urine. My question is why did they decide to culture my urine. I feel like either the people they put in the room with me had Mrsa. We were sharing bathrooms. Maybe our urines got mixed up because there was no labeling on the urine bowls that measure our urine output. They also had a very sick woman in the room with me who had a bad chest cold and they moved her out the next day who was bed bound. Then there was a young lady in the room with me who had kidney stones, she left the day before they told me I had Mrsa. I feel the nurse staff knew this all along. I didn’t have mrsa when I came in the hospital, but I had it when I left. That’s why I left the hospital. I was put on antiboitics and have been tested twice for mrsa and they were all negative. I still have nagging thoughts about this. Can I sue the hospital?

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• Julie // Jun 19, 2007 at 9:47 pm

  My mother has had MRSA since Sept 06, we cant get help. She has so many Dr.s and they just keep moving us to the next.. Mom has 8-15 sores at a time on her back side. Having memory problems and involuntary movements.. none explained or connected to the MRSA she got at the hospital. Email me.

• rosy // Jun 20, 2007 at 1:39 am

  Julie,

  My husband took me to the emergency room last Saturday because I was feeling dizzy and had heart palpatations. After testing and a few hours, they let me go home with a clean bill of health. This last Saturday, a week later my husband developed a strange bump with a purple dot in in. We thought it was a spider bite and now he has lots of pimples on his chest. On Monday morning, I woke up with the same big bump on my arm but it is getting much worse than his. I just got back from the emergency room and the doctor suspected MSRP. He gave me a prescription and shoved me away. I’ve never seen anyone rushed out of the emergency room so fast and i found it strange. He didnt do any tests to confirm it. Now I wonder if there is any connection with our getting the infection last week. Do you have any good resources about MRSA? I hope your mom turns around and starts to improve soon.

• neola // Oct 21, 2007 at 10:20 pm

  boy o boy i can’t beleive this i went into er for a second visit because of horrible stomach pain and a feeling of a urinary tract infection which hadn’t gotten any better, after 2 weeks of dr visists and percription. pain was unbarrable right under my rib and around to my back plus .after many test nothing, but so happens a previous urine sample comes back poss for mrsa i was sent home with tytracicline for 10days still not feeling 100% WENT BACK TO FMILY DOC FOR RETEST THIS TIME THEY SWAB MY NOSE AND ANOTHER URINE SAMPLE afew days later nose swap came back poss now im on bactraban tomorrow im going back in and insisting on a blood test for this and a mouth swab i feel horrible about this constantly wash my hands and avoiding contact with all im still suffering the rib pain very severly and a constant dizziness what the 2 have in common i don’t know. i’m scared because i lost a finger 2 yrs ago to sepcis and not ready to loss anymore.i had knee replacement in feb dr seems to think mrsa caused in my kidneys by being caterizedi wonder do i need to ssee an infectous disease doc i need answers no one can give me i hear everything about being on your skin but nowhere else

• MRSA // Jan 22, 2008 at 11:25 am

  This is a very informative article thank you for your hard work on this article! Looks awsomo!

  I am worried about MRSA too!

• Ewa // May 8, 2008 at 7:42 am

  Thank you all for sharing your experiences. It would be useful to know WHICH HOSPITALS you were treated at so that others may be aware.

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