Be careful at the gym

[alteredgenes]

I have spent a good portion of the last week in the hospital and the doctors office for abcesses on my body (2 on but and 1 on hip) Apparently there is a form of staph infection called MRSA that is popping up at the gyms here in the midwest. One out of three people carry it in there nose but do not have any breakouts or signs of it they are just carriers. Then they wipe their nose and do a lift and someone lifting behind them catches it. I thought maybe just ingrown hairs and I would just let them work out until I could not walk or sit down anymore. The places I had it are rare and they cannot figure out they showed up there. I went to the hospital Saturday morning was there until Sunday and have been being seen by doctors all week. I have to go to a infectious disease specialist and have this reported. I impact antibiotics are used and the pain of abcesses is no fun. So be safe and clean. Also no way from gear have not used in a year so I could not of taken a dirty shot. You can check it out on webmd.com under search:MRSA Just thought I would give the heads up. PEACE---Alteredgenes.

P.S. The scars will be nice.

Might want to sticky this mods.

 

[_Yossarian_]

wow, that sounds pretty shitty. Hope you heal quickly bro.

 

[metzen]

Where at in the midwest? I you don't mind saying I'm around AZ and you kinda freaked me out.

 

[alteredgenes]

bump up for more awereness^^^^^

 

[alteredgenes]

Missouri bro.. Kansas City area

 

[liquidmuscle]

i am down south texas but i will let others hear about your exp bro, just another reason to carry a towel w/you when lifting

 

[NLR TJ]

Bro, there was an article about that this morning in the PHILADELPHIA METRO. I am tryin to get a link to it so some can read it. That's fucked up bro. hope your alright.
Here is the metro for acrobat reader.
It takes a while to open the whole thing!! And its only a small article. Here is the article here, sorry the precation part is not clear but the article is readable, just click the pic below!!

 

[deejay10]

Bro, there was an article about that this morning in the PHILADELPHIA METRO. I am tryin to get a link to it so some can read it. That's fucked up bro. hope your alright.

Here is the metro for acrobat reader.

It takes a while to open the whole thing!! And its only a small article. It says that the strain of the virus forund here, is very hard to cure and will hospitalize you for a while. It says to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water and often. Clean items used by large amount of people with Alcohol (not the drinkin Kind, LOL). Be safe.

Yeah, I live out on the East Coast too...and I've heard of it out here. NOthing in the papers or anything though.

It's actually quite rotten when you think of all the hands that have been on equipment you're touching. I try to wash my hands atleast two times throughout my workout....just because you never know what kind of greaseball was touching those before. I knew a guy at my gym who's uncle owned the place, and he used to screw this girl upstairs in the tanning beds before working out (sometimes) the more I thought about it, the more it grossed me out. I ended up switching gyms because the thought of having gonorrhea pussy juice all over the Smith Machine wasn't the most appealing thing in the world.

It's a haven for germs....gotta be carefull.

 

[slat1]

Oh man... I am already borderline OCD... now I am going to freak out.
Best of luck!

 

[RipperRay]

Man thats wild stuff. It wont be long before gyms will have the big roll of paper to cover equipment like the doctors office.