I want to start off by sharing a story with you about the truth of antibiotics. This story involves many trips to the emergency room, many not so great doctors and even more useless antibiotics.
Fortunately for us there are a couple good doctors in this story.
Lets go back a few years to 2003. This was the year I got my first MRSA infection. If you've ever had that type of infection then you know how painful it can be. This being my first experience with it you can imagine how scared I was. So naturally I went to the Emergency room. The doctor there told me this was a typical infection. He then cut it open and sent me home with antibiotics.
This type of thing went on and on.
I went back to the emergency room several times within the next year or two. Each time I went for the same thing. Each time they did the same thing. Cut the infection open bandage it and give me antibiotics. I eventually grew tired of this game and demanded answers. I assumed they didn't want to know the what was going on or they didn't know. Getting a straight answer was like pulling teeth.
Until, I ran across an emergency room doctor that cared. This doctor explained the whole thing to me. The reason why I had to keep coming back to the E.R. The reason none of the antibiotics were working. He even told me why the other doctors couldn't tell me anything.
My suspicions were right.
They themselves didn't know the answer to my questions.
What this doctor told me was informative and scary. He told me that a lot of infections like the one I had. MRSA. Were hard to diagnose. Infections like MRSA have many different strands. Which means that an antibiotic that works on one strand of MRSA might not work on another strand. This was the reason for so many different types of antibiotics and so many trips to the emergency room.
Finding the antibiotic to match that certain strand of infection was a crap shoot. They literally had no way to match the medicine to the illness.
Fortunately for us there are a couple good doctors in this story.
Lets go back a few years to 2003. This was the year I got my first MRSA infection. If you've ever had that type of infection then you know how painful it can be. This being my first experience with it you can imagine how scared I was. So naturally I went to the Emergency room. The doctor there told me this was a typical infection. He then cut it open and sent me home with antibiotics.
This type of thing went on and on.
I went back to the emergency room several times within the next year or two. Each time I went for the same thing. Each time they did the same thing. Cut the infection open bandage it and give me antibiotics. I eventually grew tired of this game and demanded answers. I assumed they didn't want to know the what was going on or they didn't know. Getting a straight answer was like pulling teeth.
Until, I ran across an emergency room doctor that cared. This doctor explained the whole thing to me. The reason why I had to keep coming back to the E.R. The reason none of the antibiotics were working. He even told me why the other doctors couldn't tell me anything.
My suspicions were right.
They themselves didn't know the answer to my questions.
What this doctor told me was informative and scary. He told me that a lot of infections like the one I had. MRSA. Were hard to diagnose. Infections like MRSA have many different strands. Which means that an antibiotic that works on one strand of MRSA might not work on another strand. This was the reason for so many different types of antibiotics and so many trips to the emergency room.
Finding the antibiotic to match that certain strand of infection was a crap shoot. They literally had no way to match the medicine to the illness.
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