My urine culture came back showing S. saprophyticus which will not be stopped with the Cephalixin I was taking. The nurse called to say I need a sulfa med. The doctor RX'd me SMZ/TMP DS 800-160. I had no clue what it was so did a little search and found that it is double strength Bactrim. I read here that it kills Cpni. I am thinking ... UH OH. Is this something I should do? I am suppose to take one PM and one AM until gone for 7 days.

As I write this today I am not fully recovered but will try my best to convey what my latest experience involved. Am writing this with my right eye closed as a matter of fact. So anyway ... what I want to write about in my blog today is reflective of years of chronic illness that I merely pushed off as hormonal induced migraines that we women had to bear in life. Of course ... I think I know better now. Not that hormones cannot play a role in this illness but that I know the true instigator I believe.

Finally! Sweet success. I am able to take 2400 mg. NACi every day. Took me three months to get here. I have had to avoid using the FIRi sauna for two weeks and keep all things low key. Seems too much anything gives me burning red eyes, sore throat and wheezing bronchials. So I limit certain foods, too much sunlight, working too hard, too much stress, too much this, that and the other. But I am here ... I did it! Yay!

Doing the Bron-Y-Aur Stomp baby!   MM

PS... will go change my signature now. My new badge.

We got our FIRi sauna set up last weekend and I have been eagerly but cautiously using it for 10 min. at the start of my day after drinking water to hydrate first thing. Probably the most interesting result thus far is it restarted the eye burning, sneezing, bronchial irritation with resulting cough. These are all at minor degrees but nevertheless it is a direct response to using the sauna I believe as nothing else has changed in  my environment. The heat from the sauna feels soothing on my sore back and shoulders but causes some itching and then later in the day they ache again especially at night. But less so than on the MPi and prior to starting the NACi, supplementsi, etc.

My first double dose of NACi. Oh boy. The day after. I was feeling quite cocky as I was managing one 600 mg. of NAC daily without too much trouble. But then my brain began to feel that most unwelcome feeling ... like beginning to puff up which leads to feeling poisoned. So remembering when I began NAC it helped a great deal with relieving that awful symptom  .... so yes ... why not?

Third + week on NACi

5/04/08 - Sun. (600 mg. NAC x1)

Second week on NACi -

Other supplementsi = Methyl B12, calcium, magnesium, selenium, Vit. C & Liv-Gall Cleanse (milk thistle, silymarin, tumeric, curcumin, dandelion,inulin & artichoke) - the rest are on order and I will add them one by one when I receive them.

4/27/08 - Sun. (600 mg. NAC x1)