I've been searching long and hard for about 4-5 years for the answers to my drastic decline in overall wellness. In November 2005 I was in Seattle on a work trip. My job at the time was to fly around company helping with the opening of new restaurants for my company. Around the 4th day I noticed I had some kind of infection in my mouth around the lower back left gum line. As the days proceeded it got worse. I had an unbelievably high fever. My body ached. My arm pits swelled up. Literally my entire mouth hurt, my gums were sore, and they bled a little bit. I also had a sore develop on my lip.
I tried to force myself to work thru all of this since I needed the money. One night I had a really bad bout of diarrhea that came out completely black. I decided enough was enough and I drove myself to a hospital. The doctor didn't spend too much time with me. He pretty much just prescribed me some Penicillan 500V and sent me on my marry way.
The infection seemed to have cleared up within a couple of weeks, but I noticed I was not feeling the same. I felt fatigued and bloated all the time. The inside of my nose was always crusting up. I had a bout of nausea that lasted 5 months in a row. My whole body was doing funny things and I was experiencing a myriad of symptoms that did not make sense. It was driving me crazy
As aforementioned, I've spent a long time looking for answers. Routine panels run by doctors have turned up nothing. I'm just so frustrated as my quality of life has been crushed. I've felt like crap literally for 5 years in a row. I have to ration my energy everyday. I'm just not the same person and feel unwell all the time.
Recently the nose crust issue has started again. I noticed what felt like a pimple inside of my nose. The inside of it also feels so irritated/swollen. I started doing some reading which led me down the staph-MRSA path. Is it at all possible that the infection/sickness I experienced in Seattle back in 2005, was actually a staph-MRSA infection that's lingered? Some of what I've read about both it's surface symptoms and when it breaks barriers and gets into the blood sound so familiar to me.