Thank you I appreciate the gesture.
I finally got the lab results from an culture and it turns out the reason I was sick for so long is because I had two things:
Scant growth of beta hemolytic streptococcus, Not group A, C or G
Moderate Growth of yeast.
Basically what this means is I have oral thrush (oral candida) or an over growth of yeast that is harboring strep group B.
To be honest I'm pretty worried at this point because I've been doing exactly what I shouldn't have been doing to treat it for a while.
Strep B does require antibiotics however it also hides within yeast colonies well. The main problem being that antibiotics kills non-yeast bacteria or fungi allowing yeast to over grow. The thing I've been doing wrong so far is all diet. As it turns out the ICE POP's and HALLS drops that I've been using to keep the swelling down has only been feeding the problem because sugar is what fuels candida.
Long story short I have a 20% chance of dieing (see url) and I need to start a really suck ass diet that doesn't include sugar/carbs which unfortunately is in all the good foods... like all of them.
www.dhpe.org/infect/strepb.html
On the other hand if I do die I get to have a very statistically unlikely death.
There are 300+ Million people in the united states of that only 18,000 get strep group b. Within that group 8000 are newborns leaving only 10,000 infants and adults. 75% of that 10,000 are female leaving only 2,500 male infants and adults. I'm not sure where the division between male infants and male adults lie but I'm guessing far more infants get strep b than adults so less than 1,250 adult males per year get strep b.
chance of death per year for an adult male in the united states
.0000004166%*.8=
.0000003%
My current chance is at 20%.
It's like lotto odds. Honestly I'm not being grim about it, I think my actual chances for survival are many many times higher because whenever I get sick I do tons of research and focus all of my efforts on getting well quick. Also I generally don't get sick... ever so I'm not at any pre-disposition like a lot of people that get it and the test results did say "SCANT" which as far as I know means minor. On the other hand I am worried that being sick this long has done damage to my body.
Even just being in a group of 18,000 in 300,000,000 is way less than 1%.
I'm really amazed by those numbers. The thing that I don't understand is at this point I find myself not caring so much about the prospect of death but caring more so about satisfying my curiosity about microbiology related to the current issue.
