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I haven't taken any antibiotics since 9th grade (I had a KILLER inner ear infection-- truly thought I was going to die, it hurt so bad!)... I'm 20 now..... HOWEVER, I've been prescribed just about every OTHER type of drug there is since then... that's why I've stopped going in when I'm sick... Drs. overprescribe, and I'm tired of side effects
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Well, I won't give out my medical history, but I average getting prescribed amoxicilin about once or twice a year. The last four years, it's been closer to two or three, but that's mainly from my living in the campus residence halls. The dorm plague is something else.
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I have never taken any antibiotic, unless we're counting the strange smelling hand soaps they've got at public schools these days.
When I was four or so I had this bizarre glandular swelling, sort of like mumps, only it wasn't mumps, it was...well, no one knew what the heck it was. It felt very odd, and then the doctors said I should eat a lot of chicken soup. (Ooh, thank you for that, modern medicine.) Anyway, I got better, and it wasn't really very serious, just mysterious.
I've also never broken a limb, or otherwise been ill or injured to an extent requiring medical attention. When I was very young I tripped in the kitchen and split my lower lip open from the fleshy kissy bit to the pale bit below that, and apparently spilled a great deal of blood, and my parents thought I might need stitches, but no, heaven forbid. So.
My point? I'm probably going to die very soon. Karma, you know.
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I used to get a lot of antibiotics, mostly for infections in the sinuses, and tonsilitis, but a change in diet, about the time I turned 15, changed everything. I haven't had tonsilis since then, and I've learned to start taking Ibuprophen when the first symtoms show up, and I haven't had to see a Doctor in two years.
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Er, if you got tonsilites every year, wouldn't a crazy, mad idea have been to, y'know, have them removed?
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They were supposed to come out, but somehow, we never got around to making the appointment, then with a change in diet (more vegtables, less suger and salt) the tonsilitis never returned. A doctor has since told me to get them removed, but I'm not having anything removed unless it's trying to kill me. Except for the circumcision at birth, I plan on leaveing the planet with everthing that I had when I arrived.
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No teeth and a complete lack of bowel control then?
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And so the reason that there isn't a vaccine for Bacterial Menengitis is...?
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Because AIDS directly attacks the immune system, in a way no other virus does, would be my guess.
No, seriously, why don't we have a vaccine for bacterial menengitis? We have one for the virul (viral?) form.
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I thought there was a vaccine for bacterial menigitis? The Houston area suffered a pretty outbreak of menigitis earlier this year, and the state approved massive vaccinations for the heaviest hit areas.
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i heard somewhere's that they were developing an AIDS vaccine. i don't remember where. but it had something to do with the protien coat protecting the core of the virus.
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I thought the vaccine was only for the viral form.
Meningitis (B and C is it?) tends to be most common over here at universities, and they only offer one vaccination, for the one that doesn't usually kill you.
The one that does kill you can only be killed by pumping the infected person full on antibiotics, right? If so, that would be the bacterial version, wouldn't it?
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