Thanks for the info Mary Ann...I didn't mean that we were the only 2 periord...I meantr the only 2 in this group who had it in their lungs.

My naturopath says it does not have to be somehting you have forever...there's stuff that can get rid of it. But most often when using conventional medicaine ONLY...it does not get rid of it for good and you do get infected again.

I will check that web site out, thanks so much.

Cyndi ~

--- On Mon, 6/16/08, Mary Ann Bernard, URDP <mbernard@...> wrote:

From: Mary Ann Bernard, URDP <mbernard@...>
Subject: Re: [MRSA] MRSA Pneumonia survivor
To: MRSA@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 6:19 AM

You know people do survive all the time from MRSA pneumonia's. There are various risk factors and of course it depends on what it is sensitive to or not, etc, etc.
You are also not necessarily stuck with it for life....only if you are colonized and not treated. I am at a week long Infection Prevention and Control seminar this week. Check out the web site APIC.org for some accurrate info and check it frequently as things added all the time. A HUGE group of like minded medical people who are and have been for yeaqrs trying to educate peopel on the spread and prevention of MRSA and other infectious illness.

To your health,
Mary Ann, RN
www.juiceplus. com/+mb00020
www.wesharejuiceplu s.com

-----Original message-----
From: Cyndi Olsen cyndingary@yahoo. com
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:09:39 -0700
To: MRSA@yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: [MRSA] MRSA Pneumonia survivor

> I am a MRSA pnemonia survivor too. I think we are the only 2. When I joined this group, I asked if anyone had it in their lungs and no one had.
> So I think it's you &amp; me.
> I was on zyvox for 2 weeks initially and then wound up air lifted to Stanford...had all kinds of IV anti-biotics and went home on zyvox for 2 months. I thought it was all behind me.
> Then I found out that MRSA is with you for life! So I went to a naturopath whio came highly recommended. He gave me stuff to help keep me from getting it again.
> I did get it again last summer - I had gone off the stuff from my naturopath and I got sick. But this time I was able to beat it without the drugs - by using what my naturopath gave me. I stayed closely monitored by other other docs as well, to make sure it was gone.
> I am doing well now.
> I don't know anything about vancomyacin - but it sounds like others are concerned that you weren't on it long enough...I wasn't on the zyvox long enough intitally and a week after I went off it I almost died - so please call your doc or get a second opinion.
> I am sorry you lost your dad to it - you know that Cameron Diaz lost her dad to it recently too.
> Welcome to the group...stay well.
> Cyndi ~
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