infection that won't heal

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Does anyone have information on or experience with treating MRSA, or stubborn

infections?  I'm afraid that's what I may have, but maybe it's something else.

It started out as one pus filled blister, maybe 1/4 inch in diameter that left a

round hole on one of my breasts which didn't heal and got bigger. I have tried

the remedies I usually but they haven't worked: myrrh, goldenseal, echinacea,

tea tree oil, oil of oregano, gentian violet, even neosporin and cephalexin

didn't work.  I make a point of not taking antibiotics, but I didn't seem to

have a choice.

I went to a doctor last week who did a culture, but it had to be redone. I

finally got the results back which are negative. However, the doctor agrees that

although some sores appear to be healing very slowly, I do have infections on 2

spots so I have been referred to an infectious disease specialist. The

antibiotics (Rifampin & Sulfameth/Trimethoprim) I am presently taking seemed to

work for 1 day then there was no improvement for a few days.

Putting colloidal silver on it does not help, but ionic silver does. I am also

taking a tablespoon of coconut oil every day and eating coconut cream or

drinking coconut milk. I leave the ionic silver on for four hours and off for 4

hours. The sores appear to get worse if I don't apply the ionic silver. I have

also tried copper and I it seems to help the colloidal silver work even better.

It did get rid of one spot on my chest just using it alone. I'm very frustrated

after dealing for weeks with what I thought was going to be a simple skin

infection. 

I have mixed feelings about the first doctor I went to.  He's a nutritional

doctor so I did get some good food supplements, but maybe not just what I need.

I had the initial spot when I saw him. He gave me some DSMO in addition to the

other things: vitamin A, zinc, selenium, olive leaf extract, and digestive

enzymes. Of course I'm taking my cod-liver oil. I have read posts on Native

Nutrition, and I know some people think DMSO is great, but now I think it can be

very dangerous. After beginning to use it, I started getting marks all over my

chest and began getting sores whereever I had used adhesive tape to cover the

gause I was using. I went from one sore to ten along with a strip of raw oozing

skin about a foot long and 3 inches wide in a few days. (After a few weeks,

this strip slowly shrank down to 2 open sores about 1.5 inches in diameter and a

smaller sore which I think is almost healed.) I also have possibly 4 other

sores, but I am not sure

that they are the same thing, they may be minor scratches or irritations.

I have not had a problem with adhesive tape before, but I have tried all kinds

of things and can no longer tolerate latex tape, non-latex tape, and anything

stuck to my skin turns into oozing sores. This has made it hard to find a way

to cover the sores to try to prevent them from spreading, but at this point I do

not appear to be getting any new sores. (I say that with hope and reservations

too.) I think the DMSO spread the infection all over my chest. If it improves

uptake through the skin, it can improve the uptake of anything right? I am

hoping that all this will be a moot issue if I get some help from the infectious

disease doctor, but I was hoping to see if anyone could shed some light on this

situation, and to warn people that DMSO may not be so safe.

Gayle