pseudomonas aeruginosa infection?!

bak94

I am freaking out right now! I should stay off of Dr. Google, but reading up on this infection I have is scary! Some sites say it has a 50% mortality rate! Anybody else ever heard of pseudomonas aeruginosa? I guess it is a big problem in hospitals and with cathaters, my infection is right where my port was! Now I am thinking I got it when I was in the hospital, as that darn incision from where they took the port out is not healing. I have been to my surgeon (well, his co worker as mine has been out) twice a week to have fluid drained and they didn't notice this should be healing faster? He had mentioned he might have to scrape out the bad scabbing and reclose at some point well why not sooner than later? I had no idea this was so serious until I looked on google. Has anyone heard of this or experienced this? Infectioous disease doc put me on 2 antibiotics.

many

Do not read much on Internet as everything on net is not true

jennyboog

I'm sorry, I haven't heard of this.  Hopefully, someone will come along with more experience.  Whether it's BC or not Dr Google is not to be trusted all the time.  I hope the antibiotics work and it clears up soon.

Bugs

It is a very common bacterial infection that you can get from hospitals.  Serious stuff if not treated, or is resistant to antibiotics.  I got a heavy duty infection in my stomach incision after reconstruction.  The infectious disease doc had the culture tested for sensitivity then put me on two different types of horse pills (huge!).  One I had to take 8 per day, the other 4 per day.  For 12 weeks.

Stock up on yogurt or acidolpholis(sp) to help your intestines!