Understood about MRSA and the implications of overusing ab's. Seems that using most of the meds they'd prescribe for us is bad for us in one way or another but the risk sometimes is outweighed by the reward. Not saying that this is the case with ab's but it's a possibility that would make that risk acceptable to someone very ill but not to a healthy person. And I'm just teasing, because as a nurse I know you know this, but ab's have no affect on allowing viruses to overgrow.

The first part of your post would imply that I've had the infection for two years because I just now am feeling better. I don't think that's the case with the infection I took them for. I would've been really sick the whole time. I suspect (mind you as a neophyte) that there was some other bug that wasn't making me sick but was low grade in the background and making me really tired and slow and the ab's to fight the crud I had knocked it out too.