Nancy –

Thanks so much for the links!  I really appreciate it!  And the more we study the more we understand and learn.  Seriously, when I first found the RB and then Pubmed, I'd get a headache just reading the conclusion of the study.  I'm not even remotely in the league of Maz and a few other here on the RB, but I'm trying to catch up with them.  (that cell jacking isn't an official medical term – I just find something I can relate what they found to in 'real life'.  When I read about the the various bacteria basically either stealing the nutrients in the cell, or co-opting the cell in various ways, my first thought was…gee, isn't that what car-jackers do?  LOL)

Sue –

LOL, yes it is, isn't it!  Most of my research is focused on trying to figure out how people manage to go med-free.  We hear about them all the time – heck, my AP doc says about 10% of his patients go med free – and I was like, OK, how do I get to join their club?  It's like a this giant jigsaw puzzle and I have all these extra pieces! 

Cheryl!

Missed you!

Lizz and Nancy again –

I don't really know the answer but I can hazard a guess.  I was out of state for Dr. F and only seeing him for the first time – he doesn't do that Dr. S IV's right off the bat, so maybe he thought I wasn't going to be around long enough.  I know KarinRA was on IV's with him….yet again, I was just sooooo relieved to get a doc that would treat me, I wasn't making too many waves.  I didn't even know we could make waves yet.  Anyway, we moved here, I brought it up again, but by then, had chronic yeast.  And while I don't test 'yeasty', he listened enough to know I thought I had it.  I think he trusted me to know what I had – which is pretty amazing if you'd have been to some of the docs I have been to.  LOL

Maz –

You make me blush!  Seriously – you guys did all the work – you were willing to entertain the notion that something might be happening to you that wasn't 'your body started attacking itself'.  More people should be like that.

Hugs,

Pip