Antibiotic use & disturbing new ideas

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Hi Becky,

I didn't know you could crush certain orals and use em as a rinse. Cool...

The five days of antibiotic is frustrating. Talk about a set up for rebound and resistance.

The docs who work with our kind of icks all the time wouldn't consider handling things that way but they're tough to find and work with consistently.

Feel better and don't give up on getting a whole antibiotic cycle.

Liz

From: Bannister <beckyb256 (DOT) co.uk>Subject: Re: Antibiotic use & disturbing new ideassamters@groups .comDate: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 7:01 AM

HI Liz,

I'm not....I know antibiotics help, but they have not yet fully cleared an infection. I use 2 different antibiotics almost continuously - one for a couple of weeks then another for a month and then back again. If i stop using antibiotics for even a few days then my sinus infection becomes almost unmanageable.

I hate having to take antibiotics, but I'm not sue what else to do. I rinse my sinuses out and use steroids regularly. I've even been desens to aspirin. It's all very frustrating.

Becky

From: Boston <pawsworthy (DOT) com>samters@groups .comSent: Thursday, 24 September, 2009 11:20:47Subject: Antibiotic use & disturbing new ideas

I've been a Samters patient since 1996 and have had many, many infections--

In the last month or so, I've read several different articles where the doctors are saying-emphatically -not to bother with antibiotic use because they are unsuccessful in treating sinus infection.

My experience has been consistent. Occassionally I can clear a mild infection with steroids. But severe infections or the more lethal bacteria (ecoli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, serratia, etc) have made me really sick and caused polyps to fully occlude my sinuses. But steroids and the right antibiotic have always cleared the infection (and usually shrunk the polyposis). There have been times when I've been too sick to walk and can't imagine a rinse being prescribed as the answer. I've spent fortunes in money and health with alternative treatments that just didn't work.

Are Samters patients being cut off from antibiotics with this line of thinking?

I'm worried.

Thanks,

Liz