Vancomycin for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection User Reviews

• C H...
• April 9, 2016

"This antibiotic was administered every 8 hours for 10 days, saved my leg, possibly my life. Yes, I had heartburn, yes, I had a rash, and I'd do it all over again because it saved my life. I hope this country continues to develop powerful drugs like this one that can save us from diseases, infections, and such that continue to overtake our communities."

• Anonymous
• November 19, 2020

"I was on this drug after a surgery gone bad where I contracted MRSA. I had a dura rupture (membrane that surrounds the spinal cord and holds in your cerebral spinal fluid) after a spinal surgery, lost all my cerebral spinal fluid draining into my body cavity, and then developed MRSA around all my internal organs as well mixed with the fluid in my spinal cord and around my brain. After repair, I spent 14 months in ICU infectious disease isolation on IV vancomycin, then had a PICC line put in and self-infused at home for 8 more weeks. Like chemo, it is very hard on your systems when given IV. They call it the antibiotic of last resort, maybe so, but it works and it saved my life. Every doctor, RN, and tech that eyeballed my chart wasn't giving me even a 5% survival chance and without it, I know it would have been 0.0%."

• Tee...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 9, 2019

"I had an abscessed tooth. The doctor put me on a strong antibiotic. I took the last pill the day it was pulled. I was hospitalized 10 days later, told the MRSA was in my bloodstream, going to all my major organs, and quarantined. A main IV picc line had to be inserted, and they gave me IV vancomycin round the clock with an oral antibiotic called rifampin. I was told by the Center for Disease Control it may be weeks. I was sent home on the 7th day but required IV vancomycin 2 times a day for another 7 days. If the vancomycin hadn't worked, I probably would've died of sepsis."

• Bar...
• September 1, 2009

"This medicine, given IV at 5X the recommended adult dose, along with the skill of the best surgeon in Cleveland, saved my life from MRSA - which at 9 AM looked like a spider bite on my leg and by 1 PM had developed into an orange-sized deadly cyst. I was in isolation for 6 days, coma for one, and am grateful for my life! Thank you to the scientists who developed this miracle! [And don't ignore rapidly enlarging cyst-like growths!]"

• Anonymous
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 21, 2024

"Have had 6 bones removed from feet from MRSA treated with vancomycin. I can still walk. Trick to stomach pain from antibiotics is to take a probiotic an hour or two after running or taking the antibiotic. Florastor or Align 5x (not reg) are best, IMHO. No diarrhea or stomach pain. Don't let a doctor tell you otherwise. They seem to not teach this in medical school. Bring it with you."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 19, 2023

"I had an allergic reaction about one week into starting treatment with this medication. I suffered from a bilateral lower extremity rash."