Antibiotics are more often avoidable than one thinks even in the face of quite fierce infections. I never judge anyone for succumbing to the rx antibiotic route, as it can feel quite scary when you are in it, but, it is always good to keep in your mind that it can almost always be done. IN recent years, a growing problem of resistance agains infeciton is occuring because more often than not, antibiotics are being used in situations where thye need not be. This is an interesting article discussing essential oils as a possibility to replace antibiotics. 

I dont know why setting up the Inspiration page is taking so long and now the beginning is wrong. I will fix it later today after I finish work. Its almost there.   Dr.M

...about the thyroid. Here is my thinking, and I am speaking in regards to the community of people that have IC-not other people in general, as my experience with thyroid issues is limited to chorinic illness.  But--my theory is like the picture above. If everything is too full and stuck and you put something behind it to push it faster--what do you think will happen? Probably a bunch of cars will run into one another and there will be alot of accidents and probably even a fire right?

As in-I have one! After my little daughter accidentally while sick last week got a little dot of spit in my mouth as she was speaking to me! I knew at that moment I was toast. I was somewhere where I just could go and wash my mouth out. So I said, well, OK, here we go. And I thought I escaped it until boom, it hit me so hard! I have been sick home for two days and asking myself why I am not getting better. Well, I was getting better-mostly. It started with a sore throat of razor blades and fever and throat and lung stuff-that all cleared up quickly.