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Infectious Diseases | Last Active: Jun 13, 2023 | Replies (21)

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@sueinmn

Maybe go back to one of the docs that diagnosed osteomyelitis for treatment?
Understand that they will want to start with Augmentin or Penicillin unless they have done a culture to identify a specific bacteria.

Also, often when treating infections, there is a treatment protocol called "step up" where they try drugs in a certain order, and if you refuse what they offer, they may decide not to treat you. This is to keep the strongest drugs "in reserve" for the most resistant infections, as superbugs due to indiscriminately used antibiotics are getting tougher all the time.

There may also be something else in your health history that makes the reluctant to give it such as reaction to another antibiotic, kidney or liver issues, or diabetes or something else.

SO what is the bottom line? Getting care is a two-way street. If you want to beat this thing, whatever it is, the doctors expect you to work with them - sometimes that means starting with their recommended treatment .and moving on if it doesn't work. And not going out on your own and adding other drugs to the regimen...

Are you willing to go back to one of the original doctor s who diagnosed that and try.?
Wouldn't that be better than continuing to suffer year after year?

Sue

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Sue,
The doctor you are communicating with is not being truthful with you. He has indicated more than once I can not see another doctor where he works. I have enough information to have him charged with a felony. Another doctor I talked to says he should be charged criminally for what he has done to me. Actinomycetes bacteria has been cultered and symptoms match. I was getting better being treated with ceftriaxone by my ENT doctor 2 months ago before the bad doctor stopped treatment and chewed on my ENT doctor. I have spent more than a 1000 hours
researching actinomycosis and I know that is what I have. My PCP has actinomycosis written in
my health records and has told me if he would sign for IV antibiotic treatment he could but that
requires an infectious disease doctor to sign.