Guest guest Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Just added another pic to the photo's section.This is my left elbow bacteria. I started doing this a couple of years ago and every six months or so I just check to see any changes.Well after nearly three years of continuous antibiotics I can see the same organisms and even though in the past they were often very sensitive to the drugs I took you cannot get the drug to the bugs. The organisms all playing a role in my sore elbow- are staph areus, staph epi the major bacteria (white colonies) Staph areus is yellow. And even a gaffkya species(yellow colony) which I feel comfortably contributes it's share to my discomfort because it's also beta haemolytic(toxic). This is not a part of my normal ilness, it started about 13 years ago when I carried my 2 year old around all day and felt the discomfort in the left elbow that never really went away. I tend to place the culture tray and roll it around my elbow as opposed to swabbing which explains the crack in the agar.This approach tends to see a pattern formed of what normally would be described as contamination, or anything they want to call it, to me it's claer and obvious these guys are staging from deep within because no amount of external pressure is changing anything in the way they present.Basically they form the same pattern for the 4th or 5th time. My only problem is that I feel strongly the staph areus would create some cyst formation in the bone it starts the clumping and coagulation that I feel precedes the cyst formation.So on an MRI I may find the true answer for a place for these infections to stage from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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