Possible MRSA should I go back to the emergency room tonight?

Question

A couple days ago I came down with a boil about the size of a nickel on my neck that caused a lot of pain on the right side of my neck area and was also warm and painful to touch. Then last night I noticed the pain was getting worse and there were three red line rashes running side by side on the inner part of my elbow. I went to the ER last night and the idiot doctor just sort of scoffed at me, and said he didnt think it was anything but would treat it as staph just to be sure. I've been on the anti-biotics for two days now and it keeps getting worse. There are more small red crusted line rashes forming on various parts of my body, and im starting to get chest tightness. This could be MRSA i guess, and I cant get into to see my doctor till tuesday at the earliest should I go back to the ER tonight?

Answer 1

yes i would go back especially with chest tightness, good luck

Answer 2

Ok a couple of things here.  Even if this boil is MRSA instead of staph, they're going to treat it the same way, with antibiotics.  Even if you were to go back to the hospital you wouldn't know whether it was MRSA or not for a couple of days, they have to send a culture out and it usually takes 24-48 hours.  You can't get MRSA from randomly running through the woods, if you got anything from running through the woods it'd probably be a tic bite then you'd be looking at lyme's disease.  Also, being bit from a cat shouldn't give you MRSA either, and no you don't have to destroy the kitten.  MRSA lives naturally on the skin of many humans (not even sure if animals can carry it), and is a widespread problem in facilities such as nursing homes and hospitals.  Other things to consider with a boil are as simple as an ingrown hair, try putting some drawing salve on it or some antibiotic cream and see if it does anything.  I don't recommend going back to the hospital for MRSA.  Chest tightness on the other hand is a different story (which is not a side effect of MRSA by the way), maybe you just have yourself stressed out.  Try relaxing and giving the antibiotics a chance to work, if the tightness persists, then go be checked out.  

Answer 3

Yes, I would go back, but if there is another hospital close to where you live then maybe you should try another one. Or, if you get the same doctor, you can request another doctor.