Hi everyone. I sent this email below to a person on the internet that I found who is very knowledgeable when it comes to bacteria. Basically what I am trying to understand is, if you took a antibiotic that did nothing for you, could it potentially make the bacterial you are trying to eradicate resistant to other antibiotics that use a different "Mechanism of action" as described on: http://euclid.dne.wvfibernet.net/~jvg/Bio2...al_Therapy.html Any feedback is greatly appreciated by the knowledgeable people on this board.
Message sent:Hi Trudy, While doing some research on the antibiotic Rifampicin, I stumbled across your response to a question: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/mole00/mole00021.htm Basically without making this message to long I will try to summarize as much as possible. I have been sick for over a year & 6 Months. I got sick after a very bad attack of food poisoning/stomach bug that caused severe diarrhea for 1 week. However, after symptons reduced they didn't go away. They linger to this day. A quick rundown of them are the following: - Constant extreme fatigue- alternating Constipation/diarrhea- Stomach bloating- Flatulence After seeing many doctors & trying to get to the bottom of what is wrong I have eliminated the following as being possibilities by undergoing some relatively expensive tests: - celiac disease- Any "known" pathogenic bacteria- crohns disease & ulcerative colitis- many others Sorry for having to explain this but I feel that it is significant to the question I am getting to that hopefully you can help with. After being on a course of Metronidazole it didn't do anything in relation to symptons. My regular doctor presumed that it wasn't any sort of pathogenic bacteria that is the cause, rather, just symptons of IBS that can occur after a bad stomach upset. At that stage I temporariy accepted it, hoping that it would go away itself. Until I went to the dentist & was given Neomycin in the gum as part of the first stage treatment of a root canal. Approximately 2 hours later after receiving Neomycin ALL my symptons alleviated dramatically. I think I swallowed a fair amount of the Neomycin liquid during the consultation. Unfortunately my symptons soon came back within a couple of days. On the 2nd consultation I received another squirt of liquid to the gum of Neomycin. The exact same thing happened only this time the symptons came back much sooner. I guess after explaining all this, the question I am trying to get to is, what are other antibiotics that are meant for oral consumpton that act in the same way in killing bacteria somewhat like Neomycin? . I have seen a specialist in Sydney ( I live in Melbourne, Australia) & he has given me a course of rifampicin to take. He believes it could work & he also wants me to undergoe his HPI therapy: http://www.probiotictherapy.com.au According to what I have read (http://euclid.dne.wvfibernet.net/~jvg/Bio2...al_Therapy.html ) I don't believe that Rifampicin acts in anyway similar to Neomycin in killing bacteria. Are you able to make any suggestions here? Sorry once again for the long email, but the mere fact that I am onto a signifcant possibility of being better again makes me very excited & somewhat scared at the same time. I guess I am scared of taking antibiotics that do nothing that can form bacterial resistance with another antibiotic which may have been able to help me if I had of taken it first. If that makes sense. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thankyou very Much in advance. Brad
