[jjkeddo199]

I have been colonized with "mostly" dormant MRSA for a couple years now. The idea of ever needing surgery terrifies me because I know I could die from a flareup in the "weakened" part of my body.

I tried fighting it in the past but the stomach damage from long treatment regiments just wasn't worth it, not to mention the risk of getting reinfected from my home. I hope a non-harmful and reliable cure is available someday.

[qvrjuec]

Interesting - how is it not outcompeted by regular staph? Wouldn't it be over a long enough time period without introducing it to methicillin?

[jjkeddo199]

I didn't pick up regular staph -- I picked up an already moderately resistant strain that became more resistant due to treatments stopped too-early due to both allergic reactions (my issue), illness/vomiting due to collapsed "stomach biome" (my issue), and undersized prescription lengths (doctors issue).

[CrHn3]

Recently, a combination of b. infantis EVC001 and HMOs was used to stably reverse dysbiosis in adults [1].

I take that probiotic, sold as Evivo in the US, and Layer Origin 2’FL HMO and use it with my children.

1. https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(2...

[epgui]

MRSA is everywhere now, so being colonized by it is pretty much the norm. Most S. aureus is MRSA in many parts of the world.

[JoshTko]

Are there no phage treatments for MRSA yet?

[jjkeddo199]

I could probably get decolonized by simultaneously hospitalizing myself, my family, and bleaching everything we own while we get pumped with heavy anti-biotic cocktails -- But that just isn't worth it to me.

[JoshTko]

Phage treatments are nothing like that. They are viruses that target specific strains of bacteria. So if someone has produced a phage for your specific strain you would only need to take the phage with no nasty antibiotic side effects. Going to the hospital and taking a antibiotic cocktail seems like the perfect way to get more antibiotic resistant bacteria.

[echelon]

How did you find out you'd been colonized?

Is there no way to purge it? (Isopropyl bath?)

[gorkish]

Turns out the colonists don’t get along with the natives, and yes, soaking your organs in antiseptic would indeed take care of it!

[jjkeddo199]

Yep. Its inside me :)

[orangepurple]

Where is the colonization?

[kulahan]

His body.

[samstave]

Which sector?

Build more Polymers.

[smegsicle]

tried fasting?

[jjkeddo199]

Unfortunately, as a practicing Muslim, I can report that doesn't help much. On the plus side, my infection doesn't flare up too often -- And when it does, I have some mitigations I usually take to get it to taper off.