pheelix: foo monkey: I once had a MRSA infection on my scrotum.  It swelled up like a playground kickball, all red and knobby, about the size of a large grapefruit.  In three days, it went from 'infected hair' to barely able to walk.  It took me two days to get to a urologist who was able to drain it.  When he was done, the exam room looked like a crime scene.

But don't worry ladies, everything's fine and in working order now.  Call me...

Why in the ever farking fark didn't you go to the farking ER? And don't use cost as an excuse. There are things far worse than starvation and homelessness due to medical debt. Any ER doc and lance the farking thing and run a bag of IV antibiotics to keep your junk alive until you see the urologist. Do a GIS of "Ruptured Scrotum". That was a possible outcome.

/Now farkied as "not so very scared of scrotal necrosis"

Denjiro: foo monkey: pheelix: foo monkey: I once had a MRSA infection on my scrotum.  It swelled up like a playground kickball, all red and knobby, about the size of a large grapefruit.  In three days, it went from 'infected hair' to barely able to walk.  It took me two days to get to a urologist who was able to drain it.  When he was done, the exam room looked like a crime scene.

But don't worry ladies, everything's fine and in working order now.  Call me...

Why in the ever farking fark didn't you go to the farking ER? And don't use cost as an excuse. There are things far worse than starvation and homelessness due to medical debt. Any ER doc and lance the farking thing and run a bag of IV antibiotics to keep your junk alive until you see the urologist. Do a GIS of "Ruptured Scrotum". That was a possible outcome.

/Now farkied as "not so very scared of scrotal necrosis"

I did. They checked for torsion, said it was probably an infected hair, and wrote me a referral for a sonogram to double check. Next morning, sonogram tech said I'd have results in 3-5 days. By that night, I knew something was very wrong, but I'd been assured by two medical professionals by now that it wasn't serious.

I'll save the rest of the story for another time. In short, MRSA multiplies so quickly, it can be a matter of hours from, "oh, that's not right" to, your PCP looking at your junk in horror and saying, "you need to see the urologist immediately."  Wash your hands, before and after you go to the bathroom.

I had a similar experience. Not sure if it was MRSA, but I had a bump on the back of my right thigh right below the buttock. Probably an ingrown hair. It started hurting, so I tried to make an appointment with my PCD, but as it was a week before Christmas, he wasn't available. So I went to a local urgent care, figured they could drain it. 

Urgent care doctor looked at it and said it had ruptured and was 'draining nicely' and to keep it cleaned and bandaged. So I did that and was able to make an appointment for a follow up with a different doctor at my PCDs practice. He gave the same story, it's draining nicely, nothing needs to be done. It was still very sore at this point. 

Couple days later it continues to be sore and not noticeably any better. So I went back to the urgent care, I figure the doctor should at least be able to tell if there's any change between the two visits. For a third time, told nothing is wrong, but he did give my a pain med script. At this point the thigh is a bit warm to the touch and slightly pink. 

I still follow the instructions. Pain was bad even with the new pain pills and my mom calls the doctor she dealt with caring for my grandfather and the got me in to see them on Christmas Eve(Good guys.). The physician's assistant looks at my leg for 10 seconds and says "Smell that? We're getting you admitted immediately.'.

Turns out, yes the leg was draining nicely(Side note, self adhesive maxi-pad make excellent bandages for places that band-aids would be awkward to get to stick.) but it was draining equally nicely inside my leg and had a pretty raging infection going, hence the warm and pinkish thigh. So that began a sixteen day hospital stay, two debridement surgeries, a pretty impressive scar on the front side of the thigh, and having a wound vac on the leg for around two month afterwards. Oh and Lemmy died while I was in the hospital and I passed a kidney stone the day I got home from. So, one star. Would not recommend.

foo monkey: Denjiro: foo monkey: pheelix: foo monkey: I once had a MRSA infection on my scrotum.  It swelled up like a playground kickball, all red and knobby, about the size of a large grapefruit.  In three days, it went from 'infected hair' to barely able to walk.  It took me two days to get to a urologist who was able to drain it.  When he was done, the exam room looked like a crime scene.

But don't worry ladies, everything's fine and in working order now.  Call me...

Why in the ever farking fark didn't you go to the farking ER? And don't use cost as an excuse. There are things far worse than starvation and homelessness due to medical debt. Any ER doc and lance the farking thing and run a bag of IV antibiotics to keep your junk alive until you see the urologist. Do a GIS of "Ruptured Scrotum". That was a possible outcome.

/Now farkied as "not so very scared of scrotal necrosis"

I did. They checked for torsion, said it was probably an infected hair, and wrote me a referral for a sonogram to double check. Next morning, sonogram tech said I'd have results in 3-5 days. By that night, I knew something was very wrong, but I'd been assured by two medical professionals by now that it wasn't serious.

I'll save the rest of the story for another time. In short, MRSA multiplies so quickly, it can be a matter of hours from, "oh, that's not right" to, your PCP looking at your junk in horror and saying, "you need to see the urologist immediately."  Wash your hands, before and after you go to the bathroom.

I had a similar experience. Not sure if it was MRSA, but I had a bump on the back of my right thigh right below the buttock. Probably an ingrown hair. It started hurting, so I tried to make an appointment with my PCD, but as it was a week before Christmas, he wasn't available. So I went to a local urgent care, figured they could drain it. 

Urgent care doctor looked at it and said it had ruptured and was 'draining nicely' and to keep it cleaned and bandaged. So I did that and was able to make an appointment for a follow up with a different doctor at my PCDs practice. He gave the same story, it's draining nicely, nothing needs to be done. It was still very sore at this point. 

Couple days later it continues to be sore and not noticeably any better. So I went back to the urgent care, I figure the doctor should at least be able to tell if there's any change between the two visits. For a third time, told nothing is wrong, but he did give my a pain med script. At this point the thigh is a bit warm to the touch and slightly pink. 

I still follow the instructions. Pain was bad even with the new pain pills and my mom calls the doctor she dealt with caring for my grandfather and the got me in to see them on Christmas Eve(Good guys.). The physician's assistant looks at my leg for 10 seconds and says "Smell that? We're getting you admitted immediately.'.

Turns out, yes the leg was draining nicely(Side note, self adhesive maxi-pad make excellent bandages for places that band-aids would be awkward to get to stick.) but it was draining equally nicely inside my leg and had a pretty raging infection going, hence the warm and pinkish thigh. So that began a sixteen day hospital stay, two debridement surgeries, a pretty impressive scar on the front side of the thigh, and having a wound vac on the leg for around two month afterwards. Oh and Lemmy died while I was in the hospital and I passed a kidney stone the day I got home from. So, one star. Would not recommend.

I have to ask, given everything shared in this thread, would you rather have your experience or mine?  Not a challenge. Just curious.

Denjiro: foo monkey: foo monkey: Denjiro: foo monkey: pheelix: foo monkey: I once had a MRSA infection on my scrotum.  It swelled up like a playground kickball, all red and knobby, about the size of a large grapefruit.  In three days, it went from 'infected hair' to barely able to walk.  It took me two days to get to a urologist who was able to drain it.  When he was done, the exam room looked like a crime scene.

But don't worry ladies, everything's fine and in working order now.  Call me...

Why in the ever farking fark didn't you go to the farking ER? And don't use cost as an excuse. There are things far worse than starvation and homelessness due to medical debt. Any ER doc and lance the farking thing and run a bag of IV antibiotics to keep your junk alive until you see the urologist. Do a GIS of "Ruptured Scrotum". That was a possible outcome.

/Now farkied as "not so very scared of scrotal necrosis"

I did. They checked for torsion, said it was probably an infected hair, and wrote me a referral for a sonogram to double check. Next morning, sonogram tech said I'd have results in 3-5 days. By that night, I knew something was very wrong, but I'd been assured by two medical professionals by now that it wasn't serious.

I'll save the rest of the story for another time. In short, MRSA multiplies so quickly, it can be a matter of hours from, "oh, that's not right" to, your PCP looking at your junk in horror and saying, "you need to see the urologist immediately."  Wash your hands, before and after you go to the bathroom.

I had a similar experience. Not sure if it was MRSA, but I had a bump on the back of my right thigh right below the buttock. Probably an ingrown hair. It started hurting, so I tried to make an appointment with my PCD, but as it was a week before Christmas, he wasn't available. So I went to a local urgent care, figured they could drain it. 

Urgent care doctor looked at it and said it had ruptured and was 'draining nicely' and to keep it cleaned and bandaged. So I did tha ...

They sound equally bad in their own ways. It would have been nice to be done in a week with mine, but I don't relish at all the thought of infections to any part of my man bits. Probably the worst part of mine was being stuck in a hospital room with bad basic cable(Watched almost the entire 24 hour A Christmas Story marathon.) and wifi so bad I could barely check email. Toward the end of the 16 days I was bored out of my skull.