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Evil Cat Kills MashedPotato (antibiotic+Pulse Question)

MashedPotato

MashedPotato

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Hey guys,

Ok so Im dying. Ok not quite but my hand hurts real bad.

I got attacked by a cat today and it bit my hand and arms a few times (had to actually "punch" it to get it off my hand!). Cat came off fine, but i didnt (unfortunately I didnt think to bite him back , otherwise i'd be sitting here telling you how Im eating roasted cat with mashed potato...

Anyways heres the pics of my attack:

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Took a nice big bite into my hand which is now swollen around my pinkie. I cant actually type well and it aches like hell. Burns and has made that side of my hand relatively numb (also turning slightly blue)

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Heres where it latched onto my arm with its teeth and back claws.

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3rd set of bites. This is blue and wont stop bleeding. Dont want to know what it looks like under there lol.


Anyways im waiting for 8am to go to the 7 day dr. clinic. Im treating it with alchohol, neosporin every 20-30 mins. Doesnt seem to be getting any worse. Im trying to hold off going to the hospital as i dont have insurance and hopefully the doc can give me some antibiotic via injection/ via oral meds.

So, im wondering guys, if penicillin (which i belive is prescribed for most animal bites) will in any way interact with the Superdrol (on 10mg eod 3x a week), or whether it will cause additional liver stress etc.

Im also taking life support so wonder if that will decreased the meds affectiveness.

Thanks in advance!

(owwwwwwww!!!)
 
Ok, so i had to go to the hospital and had 2 injections in my butt and one in my shoulder.

They put me on hydrocodine and Augmentin.

Heres how my hand looks 24 hours after being bitten:

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It burns like hell, hurts like a mofo and is swollen like hell.

My right forearm is also swollen(couldnt really get that on camera) and keeps bleeding.

Might have to have hand surgery tomorrow morning if it doesnt improve as the infection is moving down my forearm (you can see red streaks from the main infection moving down my palm...thats the infection spreading)..


Anyway anyone know if Augmentin will be affected by Life Support or SD?
 
Man, you really pissed off the kitty MP! I'd start taking some Motrin too so that the swelling and subsequent tissue damage is minimized, unless ibuprofen is contradictory to any of the current treatments or medical conditions one might have (like ulcer, kidney disease or aspirin therapy.)
 
I was holding a neighborhood cat once on a 4th of July weekend. My sister lights off a bunch of **** and this cat went into 4WD, climbed up my stomach, chest, neck and as I turned my head, it narrowly missed my eyes as it made its way to the top of my head and jumped. I felt like I'd been put into an iron maiden, but was glad I didn't get blinded by that damn thing.

If I could have caught it, I would have shoved a Whistling Pete up its ass.
 
I can't answer your question from a medical standpoint.but ouch, what did you do to the kitty..lol

Cat bites can carry really nasty infections .
 
Based on your pics you definately received a pretty bad cat bite. Cat bites are bad due to the fact their sharp teeth cause deep puncture wounds into tissue that introduce many different bacteria which increases the chances of a complicated cellulitis. Dog bites usually aren't as bad due to the fact their teeth are dull and most wounds are from a tearing rather than puncture mechanism. As a result bacteria is introduced more superficially indicating less chance of a complicated infection. I'm guessing you received a clindamycin injection. Augmentin is definately the drug of choice to treat cat bites. I don't see any issues with your pulse and taking you abx. Your liver will be fine rest assured.
 
Trauma1 said:
Based on your pics you definately received a pretty bad cat bite. Cat bites are bad due to the fact their sharp teeth cause deep puncture wounds into tissue that introduce many different bacteria which increases the chances of a complicated cellulitis. Dog bites usually aren't as bad due to the fact their teeth are dull and most wounds are from a tearing rather than puncture mechanism. As a result bacteria is introduced more superficially indicating less chance of a complicated infection. I'm guessing you received a clindamycin injection. Augmentin is definately the drug of choice to treat cat bites. I don't see any issues with your pulse and taking you abx. Your liver will be fine rest assured.
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I was thinking pen G pro or clin too, but he said it was Augmentin in the initial IM, I've never seen a parenteral form before though, have you?
 
OUCH!! MP were you trying to give your cat a bath. I was just wondering do they quarantine cats like they do dogs and check for rabies.
 
DR.D said:
I was thinking pen G pro or clin too, but he said it was Augmentin in the initial IM, I've never seen a parenteral form before though, have you?
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Hey D! Long time no chat brotha. I assume he meant enteral route of administration with the augmentin. I've never seen augmetin parenterally. At work we give Clinda all the time for this type of situation with PO augmentin for further treatment. Cat bites can get bad quickly and i've had to admit people for IV clinda a few times to treat complicated cases.
 
Trauma1 said:
Hey D! Long time no chat brotha. I assume he meant enteral route of administration with the augmentin. I've never seen augmetin parenterally. At work we give Clinda all the time for this type of situation with PO augmentin for further treatment. Cat bites can get bad quickly and i've had to admit people for IV clinda a few times to treat complicated cases.
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What's new Trama! He said he got two IMs right off the bat, then a PO to take home. I thought he would have been back tonight to tell us how things turned out.
 
DR.D said:
What's new Trama! He said he got two IMs right off the bat, then a PO to take home. I thought he would have been back tonight to tell us how things turned out.
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Not much brotha. Just waiting for my cruise in december, then time for a kick a** winter bulk cycle :D. The two shots were probably both clinda. If i remember correctly most clinda comes in an (3ml) 150mg/ml solution. I've given 600mg for bad cat bites/cellulitis and since it's a 4ml shot it's split into 2 shots sometimes. I'm curious to see the results as well.
 
Trauma1 said:
Not much brotha. Just waiting for my cruise in december, then time for a kick a** winter bulk cycle :D. The two shots were probably both clinda. If i remember correctly most clinda comes in an (3ml) 150mg/ml solution. I've given 600mg for bad cat bites/cellulitis and since it's a 4ml shot it's split into 2 shots sometimes. I'm curious to see the results as well.
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Oh yeah, time for all those holiday goodies! Why go on a diet when you can just make it a bulker, lol.

So are you talking about the phosphate of HCl? I though clin was per IV drip only due to necrotic potential? I can say that the phosphate will tear you up worse than the cat (bad colitis) if you PO it more than about a week. Ouch! It sure is a good bug killer though.
 
DR.D said:
Oh yeah, time for all those holiday goodies! Why go on a diet when you can just make it a bulker, lol.

So are you talking about the phosphate of HCl? I though clin was per IV drip only due to necrotic potential? I can say that the phosphate will tear you up worse than the cat (bad colitis) if you PO it more than about a week. Ouch! It sure is a good bug killer though.
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Yeah man it's the phosphate ester. It's approved for IV and IM use. I will say that it's a very painful shot and all my patients agree it's the worst they've ever had......well outside 1.2 million units of bicillin for strep throat that is.....i don't think anything is worse than that stuff. It's literally like elmer's glue lol. We usually give a loading dose of Clindamycin 450mg- 600mg IM in the E.R. and send them home on augmentin 875mg Q12 hours for 7-10 days. However some docs keep them on the clinda PO for 7-10 days. Yeah it's a great drug indeed.

It's funny after posting in here earlier my damn cat scratched my hand by accident......bad karma lol
 
Oh how quickly this thread deteriorated into pussy talk haha....

Ok guys I'm now in hospital up to my eyes in morphine (12mg every 5 hours) and on multiple anti inflamatories and anti clotting agents. Also on IV unicen and some other antibiotic named V. Mycin or something and also penicillin IV.

They attempted to clean the would put with a local last night but it just got worse and worse to the point where it began to spread down my arms.

So I was admitted and again this morning it was worse and not responding to any of the antibiotics.

Just got out of surgery and had it cleaned up. Have significant tendon damage to pinkie (bad absess on tendon sheath) and I'm in incredible pain. They are watching me tonight to see if it improves post op.....

Fingers crossed.
 
MP, glad to hear they finally got it straight! That Vibramycin will kill anything. Sorry to hear of the pain though. I hope you can eat and keep some food down with all that morphine. :o
 
Thanks doc. Yeah I can eat ok, just ordered some salmon and choc cake...!

Hand will be o/e for 4 weeks. Find out tomorrow if infection is clearing. Hurts like a mofo though, tendon is driving me crazy.

Least morphine is helping me sleep through pain (plus my hand is in the air to slow swelling).

Lol just took me 15 mins to type this on blackberry and keep drifting in and out of sleep.

Thanks for concern guys. Oh and feel free to mock my cat attack guys when I'm partially functioning you cowards, but ill be better soon.... And you'll be sorry.... Muhahahaha!!


Zzzzzzzzz...... Lol
 
Damn i was hoping to hear you had improved. I did fear that tendon involvement might be an issue based on your pic. That's why cat bites suck so bad because their sharp teeth deliver all those nasty little microbes deep into soft tissue and tendons which can cause major issues.

It looks like the bite was right into the flexor compartment on you hand. You did the right thing going to the e.r. and getting this treated asap as they can get out of control fairly quickly. You don't want to have a complicated infection with a tendon as it can cause serious issues down the line with proper function. The thing that makes extremity bites particularily bad is the decreased amount of bloodflow to the area which inhibits a broader and faster immune response to the affected site.

Vancomycin(Which i suspect you're on) and unasyn are both great drugs and should get the job done fairly quickly. Good luck with everything brotha and keep us updated.
 
Lol I see you have a photo of my cat. Lol@that!

Ill update you all tomorrow.

Thanks again guys and yeah it did actually infect the flexor right down through to my wrist.

About to get another dose of morphine so ill be gone with the fairies. One thing though I'm having hiccups, is that from v. Micin or morphine?
 
Wow surgery huh, that sucks! I hope you are feeling better soon, and don't play with the kitty anymore:hammer:
 
MashedPotato said:
Lol I see you have a photo of my cat. Lol@that!

Ill update you all tomorrow.

Thanks again guys and yeah it did actually infect the flexor right down through to my wrist.

About to get another dose of morphine so ill be gone with the fairies. One thing though I'm having hiccups, is that from v. Micin or morphine?
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Honestly the cause of hiccups is usually pretty non-specific. The most common being irritation of the phrenic nerve that causes the diaphram to spasm.....that can happen just from eating too much. I'm sure a rare side effect of any of the meds can cause this too, however i really think it's unrelated. If they don't quit soon tell them to give you 50mg of trazadone....works everytime :thumbsup: .
 
They gave me an anti nausea med, they think that was it.

Morphine is making me hallucinate as I keep drifting in and put of sleep.

I'm going to give in and sleep now. Pinke and hand hurts but not enough to override the morphine effects.

Thanks trauma and yes crader, kitties are deadly purring machines. They react with deadly force when rubbed the wrong way.....
 
MashedPotato said:
kitties are deadly purring machines. They react with deadly force when rubbed the wrong way.....
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Until you get better I'll put this in my signature. Mostly because I can't stop laughing at it.

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To quote Eric Cartman:

Cartman - Nooo kitty that's my pot pie!

Kitty - Meow...

Cartman - NOOO BAD KITTY BA- MOOOOOOOOOOM! KITTY'S BEIN' A DILDO!

Cartman's Mom - Well then I know a certain kitty-kitty who's sleeping with mommy tonight!
Cartman - .......what?
 
Lol feel free. That was the most "cleverly constructed" as I could make it on morph.

Crap the pain woke me up and its only 1203. Ugh....
 
My cat got me pretty good a couple nights ago. She was on the kitchen counter and I decided to knock her off onto the kitchen floor. I was not paying attention b/c my Doberman was in my small kitchen eating his dinner. Well kitty DID notice and decided she would NOT touch paw to ground.

Kitty sank her claws deep into my side. I thrashed wildly about , she would not let go, then she managed to reach the safety of the top of the refrigerator. It felt like 4 simultaneous bee stings in my side... And it still hurts...I have 4 puncture wounds on my side, 2 on my hand, and a long scratch on my leg. ****ing felines...
 
ArnoldIsMyIdol said:
My cat got me pretty good a couple nights ago. She was on the kitchen counter and I decided to knock her off onto the kitchen floor. I was not paying attention b/c my Doberman was in my small kitchen eating his dinner. Well kitty DID notice and decided she would NOT touch paw to ground.

Kitty sank her claws deep into my side. I thrashed wildly about , she would not let go, then she managed to reach the safety of the top of the refrigerator. It felt like 4 simultaneous bee stings in my side... And it still hurts...I have 4 puncture wounds on my side, 2 on my hand, and a long scratch on my leg. ****ing felines...
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When will the cat madness end? Get dogs or something people! (j/k) Actually, most people I know with house cats have them declawed. I even saw a declawed cat catch a bird in the front yard once, so it doesn't leave them totally vulnerable if you still wanna throw 'em outside sometimes.
 
[hijack] Hey Dr D while you are in the thread I had a couple questions I wanted to ask you...my lab giraffe started week 4 of his SD pulse on monday. How long do you think it is safe to continue? He feels OK side effect wise.

Another thing I was wondering about, in your thread you advised against using milk thistle because it is counterproductive. Why is this so? [hijack]
 
ArnoldIsMyIdol said:
[hijack] Hey Dr D while you are in the thread I had a couple questions I wanted to ask you...my lab giraffe started week 4 of his superdrol pulse on monday. How long do you think it is safe to continue? He feels OK side effect wise.

Another thing I was wondering about, in your thread you advised against using milk thistle because it is counterproductive. Why is this so? [hijack]
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Sorry, but SD falls under my topic omittions in the "non-current product" category. :) I know, I know, it's all so damn technical now!
 
DR.D said:
That's interesting, I would have never guessed trazadone! Do you think it's the cholinergic component that explains this?
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As i was reading this again today i see i typed the wrong drug. I meant to say 50mg of THORAZINE...sorry too many meds on the brain LOL :D . Actually many of the phenothiazine drug class can be used such as prochlorperazine(compazine) and promethazine(phenergan), but thorazine has proven the most effective at controlling intractable hiccups by relaxing the diaphragm muscle.


It's interesting because this drug class was original intended for psychiatric use as an antipsychotic due to the profound sedative effects they demonstrated, however they were found to inhibit the nausea/vomit mechanism in the brain very effectively and have been incorporated as a first line drug treatment for nausea/vomiting. Phenergan is good stuff and i always have some in the house :D.
 
Trauma1 said:
As i was reading this again today i see i typed the wrong drug. I meant to say 50mg of THORAZINE...sorry too many meds on the brain LOL :D . Actually many of the phenothiazine drug class can be used such as prochlorperazine(compazine) and promethazine(phenergan), but thorazine has proven the most effective at controlling intractable hiccups by relaxing the diaphragm muscle.


It's interesting because this drug class was original intended for psychiatric use as an antipsychotic due to the profound sedative effects they demonstrated, however they were found to inhibit the nausea/vomit mechanism in the brain very effectively and have been incorporated as a first line drug treatment for nausea/vomiting. Phenergan is good stuff and i always have some in the house :D.
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Ahhh I would pay you for some. Almost every med I take makes me sick so I always used to have it for a back up. Plus I had hyperemis gravidium with all 3 pregnancies, it was all that helped!
 
crader said:
Ahhh I would pay you for some. Almost every med I take makes me sick so I always used to have it for a back up. Plus I had hyperemis gravidium with all 3 pregnancies, it was all that helped!
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My wife is a puker too lol....I can only imagine when she gets pregnant soon.
 
Trauma1 said:
My wife is a puker too lol....I can only imagine when she gets pregnant soon.
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Lol poor girl I sympathise with her. I was in the hospital at least 3 times with each pregnancy...but I can't take hormonal birth control either...hope she does better then expected and has an easy time of it.
 
ok guys, finally back home. Hand is killing me after surgery, and i mean KILLING ME!!! I had a plastic surgeon fix up the hand nicely so infection is down.

He used a zig zag pattern to drain the infection and clean it out. Ill post some pics later for those "dr" types. He took some during op photos, so being Pre-Med i asked if he could send me a copy lol.

Ok so im on:

V. Mycin
Unicen
Augementin

and Hydrocodone+Acetaminophen mix. (so im completely out of it). The pain is still bordering unbearable though....:sick:
 
Wait till I upload photos, my poor hand!! I look like franken-hand-stein.


Pk about to pass out from hydrocodone ..... Zzzz
 
Ok, check out this bad boy:

(not for the faint hearted!!!!!!!!!!)












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yes, it does hurt.



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This one goes real deep, and yes it also hurts.
 
DR.D said:
When will the cat madness end? Get dogs or something people! (j/k) Actually, most people I know with house cats have them declawed. I even saw a declawed cat catch a bird in the front yard once, so it doesn't leave them totally vulnerable if you still wanna throw 'em outside sometimes.
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Declawing cats is the equivalent of cutting off the first knuckle of each hand.

Inhumane, at the very least.
 
dsade said:
Declawing cats is the equivalent of cutting off the first knuckle of each hand.

Inhumane, at the very least.
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thing is, the beast that attacked me is declawed.

Moral of the story, stay away from cats, and get the hell out of the way of declawed cats. They seem to use their teeth as their primary attack weapon to substitute for the lack of claws.


anyway, had the doc take a look at it today, and yes, it still hurts like a mofo.... imagine someone with a pair of tweezers pulling on your tendon while setting fire to your hand.

Doc upped my pain meds to 7.5 mg hydrocodone and 200mg ibuprofen. Like this combo better, giving me nightmares though. The pain makes me dream and hallucinate about something eating my hand...
 
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