Boil symptoms and conditions

I have had Mirena for 4 years and have gained 20kg. My binge eating is now out of control and I feel this is because of a state of depression. I get terrible sharp pains in my ovaries and have experienced lower back pain since getting the mirena. I also have puss filled boil like sores on my groin that are very painful. I wouldn't care if I never had sex again and my energy level is zero. I have one day that I have heaps of energy and then stuffed for the next 7. I now suffer with visual migraines and get dizzy a lot. My blood pressure is high and feel as though I have a lump in my throat. I am getting my Mirena out ASAP. I can't believe how much the doctors love this product and claim that it is perfectly safe. They said that about the morning sickness pills that caused babies to be born without limbs. Wake up Medical. Stop your ignorance and do your research.

I was so glad to find this website. I was feeling terrible after having the Mirena in for around a year. I started looking online when I woke up several days in a row feeling so bad and nauseous that I was worried I was pregnant!

I was very fatigued, achy, having trouble sleeping, having strange acne breakouts on weird parts of my body, terrible abdominal cramps - yet no period, bowel problems, VERY slow to heal my sports strains/sprains, nauseous, random headaches (and I have NEVER been prone to headaches), odor, crotch drop, hair loss, forgetfulness, BAD mood swings/depression, dehydration. I looked and felt like I had aged 10 years...All this time I was blaming it on having a two kids, getting older, stress, etc.

Well, thanks to this site, I had my Mirena removed last week. I had no ill side effects from the removal and had a normal period for the first time in about 6 months. I felt incredibly better in a few days! I have more energy, I have slept much more soundly - the dark circles around my eyes are diminishing and I look much better. My routine bumps and bruises from soccer and taekwondo are healing at a normal pace and I don't feel achy all the time. Basically I feel great, and I hadn't for a long time. I feel like myself again.

If you have ANY of these symptoms that everyone is talking about...don't write it off to anything else, and don't let your doctor tell you it's due to other things. You know your body and what is normal. If you are wondering at all why you feel bad - get the thing OUT and do it NOW! (My GYN was very understanding and compliant to my request, but still insisted that my symptoms were most likely due to stress than anything else). At least you will have peace-of-mind knowing that you eliminated the IUD as a cause of your symptoms. You can always have a new one put in if you find that not to be the case.

I hope this site is correct regarding the class action lawsuit, because I am seriously considering joining it. Mom's have it hard enough without this IUD complicating their lives further!

My husband P., is a truck driver and by law your blood pressure should be 139/80 so you can maintain a license. He went to the Dr. and he prescribed lisinopril. After a week or so it took down his blood pressure, but was experiencing heavy chest and coughing. It was miserable to watch... He went back another time and told him that he had huge hand size boil like things all over his legs and chest. Mind you he only took half the dosage. Then on July 26th he had severe chest pains and went to the minor emergency room. He was sweating so hard that it soaked his shirts immediately. They put him in an ambulance and sent him to the emergency room, They ran test after test, and couldn't understand why the couldn't bring down his blood pressure. It was horrifying to say the least. They let him leave around 430 pm. Paul had tried many times to tell them (the doctor) and he said it was a normal side effect... at the cost of two weeks out of work 2,500.00 lost and then a 13,000.00 hospital and testing bill they say well sorry.... We then went to a natural path and she put him on all natural pills and his blood pressure is near normal and no side effects. we looked up lisinopril and one of the side effects is chest pains. Why would a doctor do that...???? when confronted, they said " oh it can't be the drug." what ever. We are facing financial ruin over the whole thing.

Oh my oh my, reading all ur posts is like ive written it myself. I thought i was going bonkers, i think i did actually!! I was on the pill for 16yrs and came off it to have my 1st child, aged 34. Never had any probs with the pill. I had my mirena coil fitted 2.5yrs ago and have had no end of thrush, discharge, itchy vagina and sharp cramping pains on my left. Greasy hair and falling out in shed loads. No weight gain or spots tho. I had the coil removed 2wks ago, that was hell in itself!!!!!!!!!! was looking for the gas and air!!! it took 2 nurses and 4 extremely painful tugs before it finally came out.I was nearly having to go to hosp to have it removed. The nurse said it had embedded into my skin. Bled due to the removal, but then it mustve triggered my period, which lasted just under 2wks. I have never felt so crap in all my life. Within a day i felt low, tearful, sad, headache everyday, face full of spots and very dry head to the point of bad dandruff. Still having cramps and period type backache, i don't feel as low, but still feel chocked & huge sore boil spots. Nice...not. This must be the 'crash' that ive only learn about from everyone on here, not my doctors, which is where u think u'd here it from. Thank all of u women willing to confide.

I was given Bactrim at the ER where I was diagnosed with a staph infection. They gave me 800 mg twice a day for 7 days. On day 8 I returned to my regular GP because another boil had appeared. He said the dosage the ER had me on was not high enough. He doubled me to 3200 mg a day. After 4 days on this high dose I began to feel terrible, flu like symptoms, all of my lymph nodes were swollen and painful to the touch, especially the ones at the base of your neck/head. That night my eyes started itching like crazy and began to swell. I went back to the doctor she said it was allergies in my eyes and prescribed some expensive drops, told me I had a virus causing my body aches and fever, and lanced my other boil, she then put me on Doxycycline. That night I broke out in a terrible rash from head to toe that was itchy, then became more like a very painful sunburn. I thought I was allergic to the Doxycycline, so I called the doctor who switched me to Levaquin, wow,,,I sure have spent a lot of money on medicines to discover tonight on this forum that all of this was due to Bactrim. I will NEVER take it again as long as I live.

I was part of a class action lawsuit that was about the price not the side effects. I got a small check as I just had a so-pay.
Anyway, I have to reiterate that LUPRON takes about 1 year to leave your system. I had a huge boil where the injection site was. (i had 3 shots, 3 weeks apart)
My tiny fibroid was not my problem. I had HEAVY, LONG (10 day) periods, the worst cramps ever, I was gaining weight although I rode my bike 10-15 miles a day, and swam 5 miles per week. I had a balloon ablation first, then the Lupron for another surgery that did not happen due to my uterus shrunk too much.
I then went to a fertility/endocrinologist specialist. He asked if I had my thyroid tested by my OBGYN. I said "no".
That was my problem! All that agony for 2 years and all I needed was a $20.00 blood test.LUPRON SUCKS...give it to your doctor~

I'm taking the generic form of Bactrim ds 2 tabs every 12 hours , my stomach aches and i am having a fever of 100.9 - 102.0 after 5 days. It's done nothing for my swollen lymph node . I developed a boil behind my ear and had to have it lanced my lymph nodes are sore also .After 5 days the boil is still there however not as large. Is the dosage a lot,seems a lot to me ?

I was prescribed Sulfamethoxazole-TMP tablets for a severe UTI that I developed. I was given 10 tablets total--and instructed to take two per day. Within an hour of taking the first tablet, my UTI felt much better, however, the rest of me felt horrible! I got nausea, dizziness, extreme confusion and depression, and stiffness and pain in my neck and shoulders. I continued the medication anyway, b/c I never had sulfur or ANY medicinal allergies. I had difficulty sleeping the next few nights, I would wake up in the middle of the night for no reason. The soreness of my neck and shoulders then extended to my butt and thighs. I can't describe how uncomfortable this was. I was sitting at work literally writhing in pain from what I felt in my legs. (and I blamed it on my poor desk chair!!) This happened on day three of five. Also, while at work I had an "episode" if you will, where I became extremely confused and disoriented, and nearly had a panic attack. It felt like the world was crashing down on me!! It only lasted for 15 minutes or so, but I will not forget the way I felt. All the while, my UTI symptoms were getting better and better. I was completely unable to have a bowel movement...sorry for this information...but it will start to make you worry if you can't poo for 5 days!! Day four of five is what I like to call "The Enlightenment". I was getting in the shower, still dizzy as hell, and noticed that I was very itchy. I looked at my lower back and I was covered in red, itchy bumps. I was say they looked like small mosquito bites, all in a cluster of about 8 on either side of my lower back. I realized then and there that this medication really was ravaging my body like I had feared. I found this site and others online which confirmed that I wasn't crazy...just poisoned. Later that day I was resting on my couch and looked in the mirror and saw that my entire face was covered in a red rash. (and I got a horrific headache) The worst part is you don't really look outwardly sick or anything...you just feel terrible. Everyone I told was very nonchalant about it..."Oh just take some Benadryl". I've lost my faith in the FDA. I stopped this medication one pill shy of my last dose. I am terrified of the possible lasting effects and will never take this drug again!! PLEASE!! NEVER TAKE THIS MEDICATION!! YOU WILL REGRET IT!!

Very bad rash that a week later has not gone away. Nexium actually burned my skin! I look like I have color like I just came from the beach. This is a dangerous drug. it works for the reflux, but the side effects arent worth it. I also develiped hip pain, like it was sucking the calcium out of the bone! The hip pain is gone, but i still have burning, itchy skin, and red all over, less than a week later after stopping, about 5 days off it now. Be careful if you are sensitive to hives, this medicine brought me to the emergency room with swollen hands and feet. it is dangerous!

hi, when i was 19 i got cystic acne (pyoderma faciale) on my face (both cheeks). I went to a dermatologist who gave me shots of cortisone (kenalog) about every 2 weeks for a period of about four months.

after four months of getting shots i noticed these linear dents beginning to emerge in my right cheek where i had several shots. i mentioned this to the dermatologist at the time and he said it was from the acne, not the shots. however, in the months that followed the dents only got deeper.

3 years later the dents had filled in quite a bit but they were still noticeable, especially to me. i wanted to get them fixed so i went to a plastic surgeon who told me that the dents in my face were the result of subcutaneous atrophy most likely the result of cortisone shots.

four months after my consultation with the plastic surgeon i get a cyst on my face (left cheek). i go back to the same dermatologist that treated me for the cystic acne 3.5 years ago (don't ask me why) and he gives me a shot. The next week i called him up complaining about a dent in my face where he gave me the shot. He was *extremely* concerned about this and told me to come in right away and "we'll put something on it."

when i get there he looks at me and says he can't see a dent in my face. i couldn't argue with him. he gives me another shot in an adjacent cyst and sends me home.

one week later the cyst starts swelling up and i call the dermatologist. he says he can't give me anymore shots because it's too soon since the last one.

now this cyst keeps swelling up and in a week gets to the size of a toonie and is jutting out 1/2 an inch from my face. i go to the doctor (gp) who tells me that it's a boil now (accute folliculitis) and he gives me fucidin cream and a strong anti-biotic (in the penicilin family). i have to miss a week of work.

it's been 3 months and the boil still isn't gone. i'm finally off the antibiotics though, after almost 2 months. what i'm stuck with now is a hard, purplish lump about the size of a nickle. that'll shrink up over time i'm told.

an interesting fact: my gp told me that cortisone, which is touted as a miracle drug for reducing inflamation, is also a drug that supresses the immune system. in other words it can make acne worse. that would definitely explain why i had to have 2 or 3 shots in the same cyst when i had the cystic acne. and the more shots you get, the greater the chance of atrophy.

anyway, that's my story.

I was given it after having a deep boil cut out of my leg. I'm more prone to getting nauseous -- I get sick in the car as a passenger all the time now. Aside from that, no issues, and its done a great job at minimizing the pain I've been experiencing.

Started taking Ominicef 300 mg. for upperrespitory infection
and Bronchitis on Dec 17,2005 dose 2 300mg tabs daily,
I developed extrime diaharea, which continued for 5 days, I was supposed to take this for 7 days, on the 5th day I developed an extemely sore throat which felt like a boil in my
throat, went back to the Dr. and had blood tests done I had
noticed a coffee ground effect coming from the stool, the test
showed that I was bleeding internaly and there was blood in the stool. The doctor had me stop taking it, I have just started to have normal looking stools, but this extreme reaction has
left me very weak,due to the extreme loss of fluid and blood

In Dec 2004 I experienced adverse reactions to the MRI contrast Magnevist several days after receiving an MRI. The first sign was a grape sized boil on my abdomen and a drop in blood pressure. The doctors thought that I had a staph infection, but there was no sign of bacteria or infection in my system. The doctors were perplexed as to what was causing my health issues.

In January 2005 I received an MRA to view the veins and arteries in my neck. I received Magnevist via IV pump. During the procedure I experienced severe pain in my right shoulder (the same arm receiving the injection), severe pain in the center of my chest, then a very hot flushing feeling from my waist upward. I could feel my tongue swell and there was a heavy metallic taste in my mouth. I told a radiology tech, but they blew me off and said that they had never heard of anyone having a bad experience with the contrast. The next day my nose bled and I had diarrhea. By the third day I was urinating blood. By the fifth day the boil on my abdomen grew into a 5 inch by two inch oozing pus patch on my side. My blood was no longer responding to my hypertension medication. I experienced temporary paralysis of my right leg, right eye pain, swollen lips, and a dark patch under my right arm. I remember laying in bed crying from the pain in my side; my breathing became labored, and my chest felt really heavy. The doctors were at a loss so they began treating me for everything from staph to shingles to a fungal infection, but nothing worked. Two weeks later I had a near fainting spell in the ER. My blood pressure was too high. The ER folks worked on me nearly three hours trying to get my blood pressure under control. I was so cold I was shaking. The doctor eventually applied a nitro patch to my chest then shot me up with some drugs and finally my pressure came down to a manageable level.
Six weeks later I was referred to a dermatologist and he knew what my issue was five seconds after he looked at the boil on my side..."That's a reaction to a chemical" he said.

In June I discovered that the radiologist tech had given me 40cc of Magnevist. The Berlex insert says that the maximum dosage is 20cc, so I was given double the recommended dosage. After doing some research I found out that several radiology clinics in at least three states give double or sometimes more that the recommended dosage during the MRA procedure. The radiology folks truly believe that Magnevist is safe at high levels. I hope that radiologists will read this entry and conduct further research about Magnevist. What they don't get is that the drug can be dangerous and symptoms may not arise until several days later. So folks if you experience any of the adverse reactions listed under Magnevist, especially Stevens Johnson Syndrome, get help fast and don't let the doctors take you on wild disease chases...It could be hazardous to your health.

SM

I am taking sulfameth/trimethoprim to fight an infection from a boil. It has dehydrated me so I drink a lot more water. Sex drive has dried up also - can't wait to be done.

I had a skin infection on my head. The M.D. gave me a shot for the infection, Kenalog orally for several days, and triamcinolone acetonide lotion for the boil like sores. It was very painful. I have lost all the hair on the area where the lotion & no new hair seems to be growing back. Any clue why this happened? Thanks
Dee Hoffman

I am la bit light skined but I have notived that I have had a few rashes but the most anoying is when my ears feal hot and my hands and skin turn red.

Taking the medicine for what I think is a boil or two. Ever heard of a boid with a quarter sized lump underneath it?

Last spring I was given Zpak for flu/cold syptoms. I finished the first package and still experienced the same syptoms and discomfort with breathing. The doctor had given me a prescription for 2 paks and instructed me to have it filled. Because from her experience sometimes a second pak would be needed. The side effects that I have and still having is the lost of taste and smell. I can only differentiate whether something is sweet,sour, spicy or tart but I cannot give discern if its smell. I cannot smell fragrances, or smoke. I can taste the aspertane in sodas, but cannot tell the flavors of soda. I can smell the chemical that binds the soaps, lotion or perfumes. I also have had the experience of going to an ENT and guess what he also prescribed the Zpak for the congestion and fluid that I have been experiencing in my ears. I am very frighten regarding the loss of my senses of taste but the most frightening thing is the lost of smell. I cannot leave a pot on to boil without watching it now. A pan boiled dry and thank godness for smoke alarms. I so perplex with all of this. I've been dealing with this for almost a year now and still no sign of being able to smell or taste in site. I'm not a smoker and have had no other reasons for this to linger.
So what can I expect? Will my senses of taste and smell ever return? This is very heart wrenching and frightening. Since I alone most of the time.