GPZ dirty needles!

[bagram09]

I'm not saying you're wrong, anything is possible but i'm usually so careful when pinning. I won't even pre load em because i'm afraid of infections. Thank's for the best wishes. maybe if someone else has this problem they'll see this and we'll all be able to figure it out by how many post on here. Either way i'm taking some time off from pinning for awhile, hell i might even go natural or switch to orals just to avoid this crap happening again.

I'm willing to bet that you got distracted when you were doing your pinning and you accidentally brush the tip of that pin against something or Sat it down or sneezed on it or who the hell knows what but something happened that got a contaminant on it and you put it into yourself. We all make mistakes sometimes good luck and I wish you a speedy recovery

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[bagram09]

After reading all the replies i realize that i may have been a little presumptious in saying that the MRSA came from GPZ. Thanks so much for the advice and for not being total jerks about it. No matter how careful any of us are this could easily happen to anyone so be careful and if you get any reaction after pinning get to a doctor A.S.A.P

 

[jay_steel]

one thing about MRSA is that it is every where. I got it on my knee from mat burn when I use to compete in juijitsu. It is VERY easy to get surprisingly. it could have been a number of things but i have used those same needles tons of times. but honestly if i was you i wouldnt take any chances i would toss that batch of gear and toss those needles. MRSA is no joke.

 

[heavyiron]

Multi use vials can easily be contaminated on the first puncture. Water based is the worst for contamination. I would not jump to any conclusions.

 

[AmM]

That sucks bro I'm sorry to hear that. As like many of the other's I have used thousands of pins from them and had no problem ever. I hope you find out the source of that shit so it doesn't happen again.

 

[bagram09]

Yeah it's better to be safe than sorry. Everything has been tossed and i don't think i'll be using anything but pre-workouts and the basics for awhile. Didn't realize how contagious it was, spread to the wife now i'm on her Shit list for the time being.

one thing about MRSA is that it is every where. I got it on my knee from mat burn when I use to compete in juijitsu. It is VERY easy to get surprisingly. it could have been a number of things but i have used those same needles tons of times. but honestly if i was you i wouldnt take any chances i would toss that batch of gear and toss those needles. MRSA is no joke.

 

[SFW]

Ive used GPZ for years. Its more than likely your dirty gears, dirty hands, or filthy skin.

 

[jay_steel]

Yeah it's better to be safe than sorry. Everything has been tossed and i don't think i'll be using anything but pre-workouts and the basics for awhile. Didn't realize how contagious it was, spread to the wife now i'm on her Shit list for the time being.

yeah i use to keep antibiotics on hand when i would train jujitsu. because MRSA is everywhere period. Its on your vials your skin, your desk ect. It just has to come into contact with a sore or in your body. In wet gi's on the mat it was really hard when you get mat burn and stuff. Keep it wrapped up, and any thing that looks like a pimple in a weird spot keep an eye on it.

 

[The Prototype]

I've used GPZ for a long time. Never had a problem. I've seen a lot of staph infections in the BJJ gym.

 

[Intense]

Never had an issue. lol



Sounds like a sterilesyringe assassin undercover.

 

[cerberus16sk]

This is my 5th purchase from them and this time i used their slin pins and i used the same precautions, alcohol swabbed the vial and the injection site and i ended up with MRSA ( a mutated form of staph infection that is immune to most antibiotics) 3 days later directly at the injection site! Huge freaking gaping puss filled wound that hurt like hell. I'm Seriously never buying from them again because something tells me their sterilization processes are less than hospital grade.

I had that flesh eating bacteria before from the suana at the gym.. It hurts like a bitch I couldn't sleep on my back anymore and was having fevers, etc.

I would be pissed if I were you, god damn it they cost you a lot of time and money by being lazy fuks. If you have asyringe company how hard is it not to give people flesh eating bacteria

 

[heckler7]

yeah i use to keep antibiotics on hand when i would train jujitsu. because MRSA is everywhere period. Its on your vials your skin, your desk ect. It just has to come into contact with a sore or in your body. In wet gi's on the mat it was really hard when you get mat burn and stuff. Keep it wrapped up, and any thing that looks like a pimple in a weird spot keep an eye on it.

I've used GPZ for a long time. Never had a problem. I've seen a lot of staph infections in the BJJ gym.

don't they clean the mats at your gyms, we mop our mats with bleach at least 5 times a day, and you have to change out of your sweaty gear and shower as soon as you get home

 

[heckler7]

Staphylococcus (pronounced: staf-uh-low-kah-kus), a type of bacteria. These bacteria can live harmlessly on many skin surfaces, especially around the nose, mouth, genitals, and anus. But when the skin is punctured or broken for any reason, staph bacteria can enter the wound and cause an infection. I like to pin after a shower and wash your towels weekly

 

[bagram09]

So that's why i always have clean towels yet never have to wash them. Thanks!

Staphylococcus (pronounced: staf-uh-low-kah-kus), a type of bacteria. These bacteria can live harmlessly on many skin surfaces, especially around the nose, mouth, genitals, and anus. But when the skin is punctured or broken for any reason, staph bacteria can enter the wound and cause an infection. I like to pin after a shower and wash your towels weekly

 

[cerberus16sk]

I would like to go back on what I said a few posts up.. We were presumptuous. Maybe it wasn't the pin, maybe you didnt take a shower that day lol. There's really no way to know where it came from.

 

[S_walker]

Very unlikely contaminate came from needle. The only issue with gpz needles I've had was one time my wife was pinning me and just so happens she looked at the tip of the needle and it was bent 90 degrees. Shit would have hurt going in! Got lucky

 

[UA_Iron]

All the pinz that GPZ sells are FDA regulated class II medical devices. The control and consistency on these hypodermic needles is incredible, and it is highly unlikely that this is a manufacturer bound problem. The FDA can shut you down for things like this in a heartbeat. BD/terumo/excel are all fairly large medical companies - they come under FDA scrutiny very often.

I believe they use gamma radiation to sterilize the needles while they are in the packaging. The syringes are more than likely packaged in a highly controlled clean room. The packaging for each individual needle probably conforms a number of ISO/ANSI and other international standards and has [a sample size of] each lot verified to these standards.

This means it would take some rather aggressive handling by GPZ to introduce such a contaminant. This is unlikely given the volume they handle on a daily basis.

I would look to the other processes that are not fairly well controlled to seek the answer to where the contaminant lies: the water based injectable, the injection method...

 

[olded]

This is my 5th purchase from them and this time i used their slin pins and i used the same precautions, alcohol swabbed the vial and the injection site and i ended up with MRSA ( a mutated form of staph infection that is immune to most antibiotics) 3 days later directly at the injection site! Huge freaking gaping puss filled wound that hurt like hell. I'm Seriously never buying from them again because something tells me their sterilization processes are less than hospital grade.

Sorry to hear that. I never had a problem with them. But maybe they have changed. Hope your feeling better.

 

[JerseyDevil]

I've used GPZ for years, never a problem. For one thing, they are a distributor, not a manufacturer. IF there was a problem, it was at the manufacturer's factory, not at GPZ. Sounds like you unintentionally contaminated your vial, OR one of the ultra rare instances where the product itself was contaminated. That is hard to believe because the way I understand it, the last thing they do is bake them in an autoclave, AFTER the sterilization process before packaging them.

 

[hypno]

Best of luck no matter what caused the MRSA.

I've spent far too much time in hospitals in my time and have had it pop up quite a few times. MRSA is not always as bad as they show in the news where people are falling over dead everywhere you look. For me, several rounds of Bactrum and I'm fine. The thing to remember though is that MRSA can get that bad if you try to take care of it yourself. Always let the doc take care of it!