Are there any long term effects on the human body from having Mrsa twice? also what about the antibiotic?

Question

I have asked my Doctor about the long term use of Vancomiacin intraveniously and having to use it on 2 occassions already. I have never felt the same after having mrsa and haven't ever been able to return to work do to weakness. Are the long term effects going to get worse?

Answer 1

There are a couple answers.

Having had it is a huge drain on your physical reserves, so you will be as run down for awhile as if you had a more classic serious illness, like... mono. It also causes a lack of some immune cells, and your blood work might show that. the disruption of your immune system by vancomycin should clear up in a month or so... but it takes months of living tenderly to recover from something like that. Be very good to yourself: Eat right, don't get chilled or stressed, get your doctor to prescribe some prenatal vitamins or take some really well balanced ones that provide what you need without all the work of eliminating huge excesses, sleep.

Since you have had it twice, are you sure it is gone? Immune response is incrediblly expensive for your body. That is why we feel so nasty when we are sick. Stay very vigilant, it is tough to kill *every last bug*. Many people have resident staph infections like acne, but so long as they are healthy it doesn't run down their general health. Once you manage to *get* healthy, it should not bother you anymore even if you do still carry it.

There are long term affects of high dose antibiotics. Anti-biotic does mean anti live things. The stuff that kills the bugs also has some effect on some of your own cells, it is just that as an organism, you have more than a cell or two to impair or lose before you croak, unlike the single celled units of life.

Vancomycin prevents the proper building of a cells.
You were treated for while, and some number of replacement cells you needed during that time just did not get made. you are catching up now on that too.

If you drank alcohol *at all*, or a lot of caffeine while you were on this stuff you would have eliminated it more slowly, and may have overdosed yourself.

vancomycin can be toxic to your ears, causing hearing loss of loss of balance that persists. It can cause kidney problems that usually clear up on their own. It has caused some people visual loss due to a rash on their eyeballs.

It also *really* screws up your intestinal bugs, so if the plumbing is not working so well, best to let your doctor know about it. The inbalance of bugs in your gut can cause you to be protein deficient and unable to absorb nutrients well. If you do not want to see your doctor about that, there are many pro-biotic health food preparations full of live bacteria (yum!) The refrigerated liquids actually seem to sometimes work.

Some people do report muscle weakness as a lasting side effect. nobody seems to have studied that yet.

Personal guesses:
The stuff does put a load on your liver, and it is not unreasonable to guess that you could be exibiting some sort of induced porphyria, which is a state where your enzymes just can't catch up with your demand for them. decent vitamins and taking care of your liver (no drinking/smoking/caffeine/excess protien in your diet should get rid of that.
It is hard on your kidneys as well. Maybe you are wasting potassium. Drink lots of water and eat bananas.

Final note: Your doctor can measure your kidney and liver function, and see if your gut is overrun with bad bugs and treat that. go ask him to.

Answer 2

MRSA-Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (for the other answerer..lol) I guess the use of Vancomycin is hard on your system and can make you weak but when MRSA had been resolved u should have ur strength back.

Answer 3

First of all I would like to tell one thing. Human body itself a big pharmaceutical unit. It can manufacture and treat any kind of diseases came from external source. It is a natures gift. Just think who will give treatment to wild animals ? Human being also an animal. Excess take of antibiotic will send wrong signals to the internal healing systems, it may stop doing its duty being confused. For immediate or temporary results it is OK, but not for long.

Answer 4

wut the heck is mrsa?