Hi, I have a weird situation that I'm sort of hoping no one else has run into, because I don't want it to be related to master cleansing. But since it happened to me while I was in the late 20s to early 30s day point in my last master cleanse, I need to consider whether it was related to master cleansing. This is a bit of a long posting, so just a heads up on that. Sorry for such a long posting, but I just wanted to include as much relevant information that I think may help anyone else's thinking of the issues here. The questions are in the last couple of numbered items at the end of this posting.
So I had broken my leg like 5 months before I started the MC this past February or so (Feb 2013), and I was significantly, but not anywhere near completely, healed by the time I started the MC (in Feb 2013). At the time of the break (in September 2012), I had to have surgery done, and they had to put a titanium rod into the inside of the 2 pieces of the broken tibia (the largest bone in the lower leg) to rejoin them. I think the screws that held the rod in place were stainless steel. They also had to repair the broken fibula (which is not as large as the tibia, but still large) down there, but the repair for that was done with a steel plate screwed into both broken ends of the fibula.
Now, back to doing the MC that I started about 5 months after that Sept 2012 surgery... About 15 days into the MC, I stopped using the crutches that I had been on, and I was hobbling around without the crutches somewhat ok. Also, when I had broken my leg, the break in the tibia was nearly complete, and the broken end of one of the 2 pieces of it was poking against the inside of my skin (and I could see a big bulge protruding out of the skin). It did not break through the skin, though. Nevertheless, there was much soft tissue damage from the sharp end of the broken bone rubbing against the inside of the skin, such that the capillaries and lymph system and related tissues down there did not grow back very quickly during the healing process. But, for whatever reason, there had not been significant evidence on my skin of any issues under the skin (i.e. there was no big black and blue marks, and no streaks, and nothing similar). There was significant swelling, though, for many months. That swelling had gone down quite a bit by the time I started the MC, but not completely.
So everything was going well with the leg healing and the MC, I thought, until I developed a big blister on my leg, about the size of a silver dollar, that was around for about 2 weeks before I decided to see the surgeon about it. That blister was not in the area where the break was (the break was about maybe 5 inches above my ankle). The blister was only about 3 inches above the ankle. I figured it was the same type of typical "fracture blister" (I think that's the term) that sometimes accompanies the skin healing process (and which I had gotten many of, though much much smaller in size, during the first few months after the surgery), where such fracture blisters are filled with water, or some kind of salty water, or similar. But, as I later learned, this big blister was filled with white pus (which pus, as I later learned, is apparently white blood cells that go to the site of an infection), along with probably some of the bacteria that was the cause of the infection. The doctor who I then went to see, who was the surgeon, was very surprised by what was in my leg, and in that blister, and thought that the rod that was in my tibia could also be infected. Testing was done, and it was found that the infection was a staph infection (which such staph is a bacteria), but not MRSA (which such MRSA is a very hard to treat special staph infection). Because the surgeon thought it was a strong possibility that the rod inside the leg was also immersed in infection, he decided to remove the rod, with another surgery. He determined that there had been enough healing of the bone that it would be ok to remove the rod. It turns out that, as was found out during this second surgery in April 2013 that the rod was not infected, though. In fairness to the situation, there seems to have been no way to tell with certainty if the rod was infected without actually going in and pulling it out, and apparently the potential downside of walking around with a huge infection INSIDE of a bone is not a good idea, so I do not fault the thought process of deciding to take out the rod. The main point I am trying to get at is that the infection was only under the skin of my leg, but not in the bone, and that it was a staph infection.
The big questions I have are... 1. Has anyone out there ever experienced anything even remotely similar to this situation, where you got some staph infection during your MC, after you had been on the MC for an extended time period?
2. My experience with MC has always been that it really cleaned me out well, and that, I thought, it would leave me cleaned out of much harmful bacteria. Since my first MC in 2007, and since I have been doing at least 14 day MCs every year since that time, I have not had any colds, and not even so much as a sniffle. So I had been assuming (well, maybe just hoping) that MC was each year rejuvenating a cleaning out of any potential harmful bacteria. But with the staph infection in that blister that I described above, I just can not rectify how that could have come up while I was on the MC. Do you have any thoughts in that regard?
3. It's now been about 7 weeks since the last surgery, and I have just started walking again without crutches (I had to use them again while recovering from the 2nd surgery). The leg seems to be healing very well, and I do not see any signs of infection, although there is still a bit of swelling down there (but NOT a lot). BUT...and here's the big reason for all of these questions...I am wary of doing a MC again, because of the infection I got in my leg during the last extended MC. Do you have any thoughts regarding whether or not it would be best to avoid doing another MC for at least, say, another year. (the previous one from about 2 months ago I had wanted to take to at least 40 days, but only got to about day 38 before the surgery yanked me out of that routine)
4. Can you think of any reason at all that possibly the infection was related to being on the Master Cleanse? I can not, but would definitely appreciate hearing any such thoughts...even those that are seemingly bizarre, or seemingly unlikely.
That's it!
Thanks!- k
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