{"id":3539,"date":"2015-12-10T02:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T02:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2015-12-10T02:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T02:31:34","slug":"the-boil-that-wouldnt-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/12\/10\/the-boil-that-wouldnt-die\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boil That Wouldn’t Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had a boil that grew to about an inch in diameter and would not come to a head.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was given a ten day course of doxycycline 100mg BID.\u00a0 Boil didn’t go away so they sliced it open, drained it, and packed it with guaze which had to be repacked about four times before the wound healed enough not to need it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All seemed well except for scar tissue and my digestive system being thoroughly screwed up.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then last Sunday late afternoon the whole area became massively inflamed.\u00a0 But Monday, it seemed back to normal mostly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mostly was I could feel one end felt slightly thicker.\u00a0 The next day it was back to being inflated only about a third the size it had gotten to and this time it came to a head.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I went back to the doctor and they popped it and expressed the contents and sent it off to a lab to determine what antibiotics it was most sensitive to since Doxycycline didn’t kill it, even though it did a fabulous job on my gut bacteria.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the meantime they put me on another Antibiotic, Clindamycin, which is reported to screw up gut bacteria even better than Doxycycline.\u00a0 Oh Goodie!\u00a0 They also had me start taking probiotics to try to restore my gut bacteria.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I thought you all might enjoy the warning and side effects section:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"drug\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s good to know that it is “(rarely fatal)”.\u00a0 It just makes you wish you were dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, I’m into this boil for a grand so far and it’s not dead yet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had a boil that grew to about an inch in diameter and would not come to a head. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was given a ten day course of doxycycline 100mg BID.\u00a0 Boil didn’t go away so they sliced it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}