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Since rolling on the regular, I am breaking out in little pimples. Like sweat pimples.
One on my knee has gotten infected and it's red. What do you think?
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The two pics with teh sores looking bright red were taken with flash. The first was taken without.
It was originally covered with a thin blister skin, but I applied an anti-fungal creme to it and the skin wiped away when I was cleaning it.
My guess is folliculitis or staph...go see a doctor.
I understand I should see a doctor. But should I be running to the hospital to Emerg, or just wait till tomorrow?
looks like staph to me. i woke up one morning with a simular blister and my knee was red/swollen and infected. i had no idea if i bumped it as i woke up and walked to the bathroom. i let it go a couple days and it increasingly got more painful. i would go to the doctor / hosp as soon as you can
dr tomorrow is fine unless you start having a fever or feel sick or the redness starts spreading significantly, then you need to go to the ER just in case. infections are nothing to mess with. I waited it out over a weekend once and almost ended up hospitalized. as it was they had to cut a bunch of my muscle out.
i agree the earlier the better
Thanks everyone.
Looks like its quite less infected than mine was, they gave me some pills to take for a week while trying to keep off it as well. Hopefully that's what they will do for you.
Sounds like and looks like somthing I had a few years ago. Ended up being msra type of staph. I had to take antibiotics and wash with a special soap, forgot what its called but Defense soap claims it kills staph. Good idea seeing a docttor tomorrow. Best wishes.
wash it with KD Gold soap. we used it in our dojo and our student use it as well.
looks like staph. stop rolling at your gym and go see a doctor ASAP
i've had staph that started out as mini pimples before.
Yup i could always tell based on the center of lesion, for me its usually a kind of deep white-ish hole. Also it was sore like a motherfucker.Quote:
Originally Posted by AJ Camacho
Unlucky... I had Staph about 3 years ago, it definately looks the same the Doc just gave me antibiotics and it cleared up really quickly, definately stop grappling for a bit though and warn your training buddy's to keep an eye out just in case they got it too!
Best of luck I hope you get it sorted without too much fuss!
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Originally Posted by AJ Camacho
Well isn't that funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jem Havok
I was just going to ask you guys if I should bandage it/tape it and roll or not. I skipped last night due to a combination of the staph question and I'm nursing a Kimura injury (kind of).
The thing is, I was planning on entering my first tournament on Oct 13th if my deer hunt goes smooth. Should I skip out? I guess it might be healed up by then anyways. I saw my doctor and he prescribed an anti-biotic Fucidin ointment.
This is the thing. I am more than a little bummed. I have three small pimples on my face and I rarely break out with pimples. If I ever do get a pimple, I dose them with high alcohol content liquids like cologne or aftershave to dry them out, but these ones are not drying out or going away. They are not getting worse either. They are just staying there.Quote:
Originally Posted by AJ Camacho
The staph on my shin started off like a pimple or an irritated hair follicle. In fact, if you see above the staph in the picture, there is another pimple above it, and that's how it started. I think the other one had staph too, but I think my immune system fought it off.
Now after all this, in retrospect, I am wondering if I had it on my back too. I had a spot swell up like a mosquito bite and get raw, but I dosed it with cologne and it dried up in a week. It was about the size of a nickel. I don't know.
Anyways my doctor took a culture swab and I will get confirmation that it is staph on Thursday, but we both agree that it likely is and he just doing that to have it on record. Funny thing about it; it doesn't hurt even slightly. I think I have some damage to the nerves in my shins from years of kicking though, but still. No pain. Unless I look at it, I would never know there was something wrong.
Where I work I am fortunate enough to have access to a change room and shower, and gym and stuff.
So I run 4Km every Tues and Thurs at work. I don't like what I see. I can't post pics because don't have a camera on me, but all the surrounding tissue around the open part has urned grey/white. Honestly it looks worse since I started using this creme than it did.
Is this part of the usual healing process, as far as what you guys have experienced?
I was prescribed pills not cream but day by day the infection/redness/swolleness went down. It's wierd to me that it looks like its getting worse. I would keep a close on it and the rest of your body. Def stay off the mats, if it is staph that's not something to mess around with. Ring worm is no big deal but I'd be pissed if someone knowingly had staph and gave it to me
I think it just looked like it was getting worse because I had just finished running only a minute earlier. I run pretty hard and heavy so it might have aggravated it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy Gates
Noted. Thanks. I guess I won't be rolling that tournament. Fucken bummer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy Gates
yeah I'd def get that checked out asap too.....best wishes!
Yeah, after staph I was insanely paranoid about popping anything on my body that resembled a zit. However, once you are loaded up to your gills in antibiotics you can actually lance/pop the rest of those boils and they won't be infectious since the antibiotics are already at work. I actually never popped my pimple thing and it still went staph. I was given antiobotics and told to lance the boil on the 2nd day of treatment since the antibiotics would prevent any further spread of the infection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurzy
Again, consult your physician but you might be able to address those other potential zits safely once you are on meds.
I'm just using a topical ointment. No anti-biotic pills yet. I prefer to avoid them at almost all costs, but if I have staph in my blood I wouldn't hesitate to take them. I will update the thread once I get eh results back from the culture swab. (Today or tomorrow)
looks nasty bro, good luck.
I can't believe they haven't gotten the results back. I was told "two days" on Tuesday morning. My Doctors Secretary/assistant is trying to lay some pressure on them to get the results today some time.