posted on Mar, 18 2008 @ 06:10 PM
As of about a month ago, I've been battling an infected tooth. The pain has been extraordinary. I liken it to having the side of my face lit on fire
and put out with a hammer. It got so bad that I actually thought I may lose what's left of my mind. I went to the walk-in clinic and spoke to the
doctor on duty. He looked at the tooth, and prescribed amoxicillin for 14 days. After 14 more very uncomfortable days (and VERY long nights), the
infection still hadn't cleared up. I went back to the doctor, and this time he prescribed novo-penicillin for 14 days. Again, same result. Two weeks
later I was back again. Third times a charm, or so I hoped. This time he gave me clindamycin. He said this was a step up from penicillin. A little
stronger, 10 day program. The 10 days were up 3 days ago, and I'm still in mucho pain. I wondered why he didn't just prescribe me the good stuff
right off the bat instead of wasting my time, and money, on the other anti-biotics. This got me to thinking...what if a doctor had stocks in a
pharmaceutical company and was prescribing a product that he knows isn't going to do the job? Is it a conflict of interest for a physician to hold
stocks in pharmaceuticals? What better position to be in to fatten their wallet than to have stock in a product that they can prescribe whether it is
necessary or not? Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but after three turns on the anti-biotic merry-go-round with no real result, I'm starting to
wonder. Another concern of mine is now that I've taken these three different drugs, are the little germy buggers in my body going to become
anti-biotically resistant super-germies?