Question: Hello,

To make a long story short, I had an INTERNAL staph abscess in my finger rupture. I felt an immediate rush of bacteria rushing to other parts of my body. I waited three hours, and took Clindamycin to slow down, eventually stop the abscess leak. By the way, I didn't take Clindamycin on that day, until the incident happened, so it was not currently active in my bloodstream.

I think some of the bacteria got to my brain. I have been feeling brain fog ever since. I have also been feeling some small pain in my body, like that slight infection heat type of feel, but I am most concerned about my brain. It happened on late Monday evening. I heard brain bacteria infections are rare, but they are possible. I mean look at Lyme's Disease, chlamydia left untreated, so it is possible. I know doctor's usually look for visible or measurable things to determine an infection like temperature (mines was normal last night), but I am sure something is wrong. I am catching this early, so the symptoms are probably not full blown. Think about it like this, someone is having a stroke, but catches it early, so there will be less damage, right?


I have told two doctors, one a GP and the other an orthopaedic, that I still had abscess in my finger despite being on Clindamycin for two week, but they didn't listen and I almost lost my life. So, my trust in doctors is not at an all time high. So, anyways, I have two options to solve this problem... Go to the ER and demand a Doxycline in pill form or IV or take some Doxycline pills I have left over before I switched over to Clindamycin. I only took one day's worth of Doxycline before switching over.

I am thinking ER. I just don't want to get screwed over again, and having to end up paying all that money. If I go to the ER, what should I tell them so they will take me seriously and not send me home without nothing being accomplished? I am not showing symptoms, but I feel something wrong. It feels like I have brain fog. I actually feel the bacteria underneath the space of my brain. I took 100 mg of Doxycyline earlier today, and it killed some of the bacteria, but I think an IV would be better. So, what should I do? How should I handle this situation when I make my eventual trip to the ER? I am tired of fighting these health issues... I have made so much progress to quit now...
By the way, now, I am feeling dizzy and out of sort. So, I am starting to show some symptoms. Believe it or not, I am a bit happy. I guess the carbs I had for lunch fed the bacteria to revert me back to the state I was in before I took that one doxycline pill.