concerning infection on my asscheek

[parafareno]

i need to alarm you of the infection i got in pattaya. I am not sure where, it could be massage sallons or beach...

you get painful read circles where the liquid is gathering under the skin....it hurts like hell, some say it is bacterial infection or cyst...even doc in jomtien hostpital did not know exactly what it was....

so i get first bulge on my asschekek near the crack...i had to go to hospital and too amoxiclin antibiotic....i took it for 4 days and then it went away, but after like 5 days it came back, same infection and bump under skin on oposite side....then that healed up and the infection moved fither up near the back...same bulge with red cicle full of puss that you cant even squeeze out...

i had to go home to europe bwcause I was afraid what might happen. 

so now I take same antibiotic again but longer....it will be 7 days soon so I am afraid will the infection come back

 

but that is not all i got infection also in nose...where it was full of crusts, and very paingful...and my upper lip swole....

 

but it cleared up now under antibiotics.....but who knows it might return...my nose was very painful and swollen....

 

I hope anybody knows more about this....what kind of stuff causes this....I would understand this happens in India, but not In Thailand, where things to be more cleaner....

 

looks like this 

i am freaking out because this never happened to me before...seems like new and new areas are getting infected....

 

Edited March 31, 2023 by parafareno

[scubascuba3]

Better if thread is moved to health forum @Sheryl

[piston broke]

looks like herpes .....

[2baht]

1 hour ago, piston broke said:

looks like herpes .....

The difference between herpes and true love?.........Herpes lasts forever! ????

[nigelforbes]

A bad case of one bahtitis.

[Lacessit]

Could be anything in the absence of a thorough analysis by a pathology lab. Bacterial, viral, fungal. Cellulitis?

 

https://skinsight.com/skin-conditions/cellulitis/

 

If it is not responding to antibiotics, it may be a resistant strain.

 

I had cellulitis once in Thailand, infusion antibiotics were needed to finally resolve it.

[phetphet]

When  I first started reading your description, it sounded like Ringworm, but  looking at that photo, it looks like a bite of some sort.

 

Maybe see a different doctor., or even visit an STD clinic...and launder your bedding.

 

If you have been dipping your wick in Pattaya, you may have picked up something more unsavoury

Edited April 1, 2023 by phetphet

[KannikaP]

2 hours ago, 2baht said:

The difference between herpes and true love?.........Herpes lasts forever! ????

I went to a Doctor who said that I had HERMES.

I said 'You mean Herpes' he said 'No, you're only a carrier'    555

[BKKBike09]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Could be anything in the absence of a thorough analysis by a pathology lab. Bacterial, viral, fungal. Cellulitis?

 

https://skinsight.com/skin-conditions/cellulitis/

 

If it is not responding to antibiotics, it may be a resistant strain.

Exactly. Need to get a lab analysis done to know what it is. The OP's picture looks exactly like an MRSA infection my daughter picked up at her school (two other kids picked one up shortly before her). Lab analysis determined what antibiotics would work. Cleared up but took two weeks of heavy duty antibiotics. If it's a bacterial infection then trying to squeeze out the pus is a bad idea - pushes infection deeper into the tissue. Need to get it lanced and properly cleaned (if that's what it is).

 

43 minutes ago, phetphet said:

When  I first started reading your description, it sounded like Ringworm, but  looking at that photo, it looks like a bite of some sort.

I thought my daughter had been bitten on the calf by an insect of some sort. Looked exactly like an insect bite to start.

 

 

[parafareno]

yes i will get lab work done next week.....i went home because of free health care...and <deleted> wanted me 3 months now to wait for proper exam....

next time i am staying in thailand where you get immediate help even though it costs an arm and a leg

[parafareno]

2 hours ago, phetphet said:

When  I first started reading your description, it sounded like Ringworm, but  looking at that photo, it looks like a bite of some sort.

 

Maybe see a different doctor., or even visit an STD clinic...and launder your bedding.

 

If you have been dipping your wick in Pattaya, you may have picked up something more unsavoury

it aint a bite....or maybe it was first time?  Because I had 3 wounds that just pop up all of a suden now....

the first 2 healed up, the third one popped up way up near the back spine.....

 

and now there is alos infection inside my nose and upper lip

but all this went away now after antibiotics...but I dont know what will happen when I stop taking it.....will it come back again or not

[Sheryl]

OP:

 

Good that you are back home and the doctors have done a culture on the pus. Let us know the result.

 

One thing you might mention to your  doctors as a possibility is: cutaneous meliodosis 

 

They might not think of it as not common in Westrrn countries but meloidosis is endemic in Thailand. While meliodosis usually presents with fever, aches and pains snd pneumonia  sometimes it does have only skin symptoms and can be similar to what you describe. It is a bacterial disease caused by a bacteria present in soil and dirty water. 

 

Are you diabetic? Any other chronic diseases?

 

 

 

 

[parafareno]

10 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

OP:

 

Good that you are back home and the doctors have eone a culture on the pus. Let us know the result.

 

One thing you might mention to your  doctors as a possibility is: cutaneous meliodosis 

 

They might not think of it as not common in Westrrn countries but meloidosis is endemic in Thailand. While meliodosis usually presents with fever, aches and pains snd pneumonia  sometimes it does have only skin symptoms and can be similar to what you describe. It is a bacterial disease caused by a bacteria present in soil and dirty water. 

 

Are you diabetic? Any other chronic diseases?

 

 

 

 

not diebetic....but prior to this infection i had a lung infection with coughing nd I was coughing for long time, even when I came back home.....

i did not have any aches and pains prior to infection.... and also no fever too....just coughing and sore throat for like 2 days....

i drank only purified water from machine...but who knows how much did that clean the water.....

and i went to beach almost daily, where the soi dogs <deleted> and piss....

 

20 years ago i caught someting similar in india.....from flies that came to my scratched wounds...but almost everybody there had it....

it was pus coming out of wounds....the wounds would appear everywhere in the skin....but it was not painful....but if I would not get antibiotic...my whole skind would start to supporate and probably you die ...the wounds did not close...they were emiting pus all day long...someting yelowish.... but no pain

so I said to myself, I will never return to india...but now I catch even more horrible disease in Thailand

Edited April 1, 2023 by parafareno

[JackGats]

Lyme disease?

[Sheryl]

2 minutes ago, parafareno said:

not diebetic....but prior to this infection i had a lung infection with coughing nd I was coughing for long time, even when I came back home.....

i did not have any aches and pains prior to infection.... and also no fever too....just coughing and sore throat for like 2 days....

i drank only purified water from machine...but who knows how much did that clean the water.....

and i went to beach almost daily, where the soi dogs <deleted> and piss....

Meliodosis can be spread through  skin contact with infected soil or water. Swimming in dirty water or sitting on unclean beach a possibility.  Anyway just a thought. Culture can confirm or rule it out but worth mentioning as western doctors might otherwise not think of it. 

 

It is also possible you got small bites while sitting on the beach that you did not feel at the time but which later infected. 

[dingdongrb]

What country in Europe uses a US penny in their currency?

[parafareno]

5 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

Meliodosis can be spread through  skin contact with infected soil or water. Swimming in dirty water or sitting on unclean beach a possibility.  Anyway just a thought. Culture can confirm or rule it out but worth mentioning as western doctors might otherwise not think of it. 

 

It is also possible you got small bites while sitting on the beach that you did not feel at the time but which later infected. 

I agree, but one symptom is really strange...i lost all libido.....i had 2 new girls every week...not prostitutes but regular girls so maybe i cought something from them....later on I did not even care about sex anymore...i was basically bored of it...and that still is now after 1 month....sexual desire is kind of gone, the actual wound is in my avatar...that was the first wound then it spread to opposite side and then further up near the spine..and also in my nose and upper lip....maybe I am beciming a lepper

Edited April 1, 2023 by parafareno

[BritManToo]

You should get a hiv test. 

Mysterious and repeated skin problems are often an indication of a failing immune system. 

[Lemsta69]

Try and see someone who is an expert in tropical diseases.

[worgeordie]

27 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

I personally don't want to see your <deleted>, ever, in fact, I think even the mention of anyone seeing it should be sufficient grounds for you not to be allowed a visa.

Nothing wrong with @rses  ,in fact I believe everyone has one.....so everybody is banned ???? winking eye..

 

regards worgeordie

[Lacessit]

32 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Nothing wrong with @rses  ,in fact I believe everyone has one.....so everybody is banned ???? winking eye..

 

regards worgeordie

Agree, there are some very cute and shapely ones in Thailand.

Edited April 1, 2023 by Lacessit

[scorecard]

7 hours ago, piston broke said:

looks like herpes .....

Similar description to herpes, which is a yeast infection and it comes and goes, sometimes dormant for weeks, years even decades. 

 

If it is herpes need to establish which branch of herpes, not a task for the layman.

 

If it is herpes basic antibiotics not the best treatment.

 

See a specialist.

 

Hopefully Dr. Sheryl will be along soon with some good advice.

 

 

 

[NorthernRyland]

Why would you ask that here instead of seeing a doctor?

[kingstonkid]

I think if this happened to me here, I would see doctors here at one of the better hospitals.  as you said it is quicker here. they have a better idea of what to test and as you are fining out can test quicker.

 

Hope you get well 

 

What part of Pattaya did you go to.  Just so we canstay away from that beach 

[David in the north]

April fool anyone???????????????????????????????????????????
Or am I cynical?

[Sheryl]

23 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

Why would you ask that here instead of seeing a doctor?

Please read the thread.

 

He has seen a doctor, several times both in Thailand and now back in his home country.

 

Currently on antibiotics awaiting results of wound culture.

 

 

[LosLobo]

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

Similar description to herpes, which is a yeast infection and it comes and goes, sometimes dormant for weeks, years even decades. 

 

If it is herpes need to establish which branch of herpes, not a task for the layman.

 

If it is herpes basic antibiotics not the best treatment.

 

See a specialist.

 

Hopefully Dr. Sheryl will be along soon with some good advice.

 

 

 

Herpes is not a yeast infection, it is a viral infection.

 

It is not really necessary to know if it herpes simplex type 1 or 2 to treat it as there is little difference in appearance or treatment, though laboratory results can differentiate.

 

Even complex antibiotics are useless against it.

 

Antivirals such as acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir are recognised treatments.

 

[Denim]

9 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Better if thread is moved to health forum @Sheryl

Minus the picture

[Gandtee]

5 hours ago, parafareno said:

yes i will get lab work done next week.....i went home because of free health care...and <deleted> wanted me 3 months now to wait for proper exam....

next time i am staying in thailand where you get immediate help even though it costs an arm and a leg

Pun intended?

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, LosLobo said:

Herpes is not a yeast infection, it is a viral infection.

 

It is not really necessary to know if it herpes simplex type 1 or 2 to treat it as there is little difference in appearance or treatment, though laboratory results can differentiate.

 

Even complex antibiotics are useless against it.

 

Antivirals such as acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir are recognised treatments.

 

I mentioned yeast infection because my doctor in Australia labelled skin outbreaks, partiularly around the anus, as yeast infections.

 

I'm not a doctor of medicine so I can't/won't comment further on this point.