I started getting them when I first fell pregnant with DD.. so over 3 years ago. Ive had a few doctors "try" and get rid of them, but nothing works forever. The soap usually keeps mine away (so I would get 1 instead of 5). Nah I havent seen a specialist.... I was given some medication a while ago by a different doctor.. she said that i was to take them when I got another one and it will go away and they will never come back... yeah, didnt work.

It is very annoying and painful.. i wish I had the answer. I have just learnt to deal with it.
I just feel like I am banging my head against a brick wall with all these docs...they all say the same thing! I was told by a nurse when I was in hospital about a herbal treatment (a tablet) that is being tried out in nursing homes with staph outbreaks, and apparently it is working wonders, even on the worse strain of staph MRSA it has been shown to get rid of it for good. I have been told if I just keep going on ABs eventually the strain will become resistant and nothing will work. The last swab of the infection I had done has shown that it has already become resistant to penicillin. It is so frustrating that nobody can come up with a permanent way to get rid of it!

I just can't understand how there can be so much groundbreaking medical research done for diabetes, cancer, etc etc and yet nobody seems to know how to treat a skin infection.

You seem to be handling it quite well compared to me, I am getting more and more frustrated when it keeps coming back! It isn't something I want to learn to deal with I just want it to go away. My poor little daughter had one on her bottom a few months ago and was in so much pain, it breaks my heart that she has it as well now, I have been jumping up and down trying to get some help as I was scared my daughter would catch it and now it is too late.

Mummamia I would love to keep in contact with you, I will keep you updated on how I go with it, I am trying to find these herbal tablets the nurse told me about but so far no health food shops have heard of them. The info is very easy to find on the net though - Alligin: A Natural MRSA Treatment

Have a look at this herbal treatment, the nurse told me it has been very successful in treating staph and getting rid of it, I am just trying to find it.