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For reference, a bacterial culture cannot be declared negative in less than 72 hours. That's the source of your three-day admission, although that's an odd beas

For reference, a bacterial culture cannot be declared negative in less than 72 hours. That's the source of your three-day admission, although that's an odd beast - if you're stable, you can go home on oral antibiotics in most cases with an early followup. The "rules" of medicine are often quirky and very frequently frustrating (to both patients and doctors) - but they're rarely random.

nobody9999 4y ago
>For reference, a bacterial culture cannot be declared negative in less than 72 hours. That's the source of your three-day admission, although that's an odd beast - if you're stable, you can go home on oral antibiotics in most cases with an early followup. Yeah. The doctor who visited this horror on me seems to have been a really bad doctor. Which is also why I changed GPs after this because he recommended this moron. I'm not a physician, but in 2008 when this was happening, I asked about oral antibiotics and was told they were ineffective for MRSA. That may have been ignorance or a lie. Or, perhaps things have changed in the past 15 years. I have no idea. Prior to hospitalization, he'd prescribed a topical sulfa drug (which, unknown to me until then I was allergic to) which made things much, much worse. In fact, I have permanent damage and discoloration to the skin on my leg. And I developed hives on the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet. It was a disaster -- but that wasn't the doctor's fault -- I didn't know I was allergic. After that debacle, I went to see a vascular specialist (the other guy was a "wound care" doctor), who suggested a compression stocking[0]. The lesion was completely healed in five days. Now I take a much more active approach when I have medical issues, having learned (the hard way) that I need to be my own best counsel when it comes to my health. That includes research, asking questions, making sure I have the relevant information to make appropriate medical decisions for myself. [0] https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-you-should-know-about-compression-socks/ https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-you-should-know-abou... Edit: added the missing link.

nobody9999 4y ago

>For reference, a bacterial culture cannot be declared negative in less than 72 hours. That's the source of your three-day admission, although that's an odd beast - if you're stable, you can go home on oral antibiotics in most cases with an early followup. Yeah. The doctor who visited this horror on me seems to have been a really bad doctor. Which is also why I changed GPs after this because he recommended this moron. I'm not a physician, but in 2008 when this was happening, I asked about oral antibiotics and was told they were ineffective for MRSA. That may have been ignorance or a lie. Or, perhaps things have changed in the past 15 years. I have no idea. Prior to hospitalization, he'd prescribed a topical sulfa drug (which, unknown to me until then I was allergic to) which made things much, much worse. In fact, I have permanent damage and discoloration to the skin on my leg. And I developed hives on the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet. It was a disaster -- but that wasn't the doctor's fault -- I didn't know I was allergic. After that debacle, I went to see a vascular specialist (the other guy was a "wound care" doctor), who suggested a compression stocking[0]. The lesion was completely healed in five days. Now I take a much more active approach when I have medical issues, having learned (the hard way) that I need to be my own best counsel when it comes to my health. That includes research, asking questions, making sure I have the relevant information to make appropriate medical decisions for myself. [0] https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-you-should-know-about-compression-socks/ https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-you-should-know-abou... Edit: added the missing link.