Need help with friend's illness

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My good friend has been sick for a year. She has a baby. She's been to a

lot of docs to no avail. I know we're not docs and this wouldn't be

medical advice, but does anyone have ideas from experience perhaps? She asked

me

to ask all my groups in a last ditch effort.

Here's her story -- [one addition is that I felt a bit of a prob in her

house from mold (not too bad but there) although she moved out about 1/2 year

ago. AND, just before her trip to PA, just for a few hours, she was in a

mutual friend's really toxic mold house that made me very sick last year .]

she wrote:

" December 2009 we went to Philadelphia (I was 3 months postpartum) and I

came home with strep throat. I had a positive strep throat swab (the quick

kind where you find out right away). The Dr. gave me a 10 day course of

penicillin... I felt better immediately but I only completed 7 days which was

really dumb. lyn's stomach was really upset by it all (I was and

still am breastfeeding) and the Dr. told us it would probably be okay and if it

came back he would just have to treat me again... Anyhow we took the risk

and it came back so I then did a 10 day course of Cephalexin. At the end

of the 10 days of Cephalexin I felt 98% better but still felt a little burn

in the back of my throat (very back roof of my mouth) so I called my

acupuncturist and started on Olive Leaf, Grapefruit Seed Extract and Oregano

Tea.

Those things kept the infection 98% gone... every once in a while it

would start to get worse and I would start to feel sicker again, achey body,

worse sore throat, bigger lymph node in my neck and sometimes visible puss on

my tonsils. The swollen lymph node is always on the left side and only

creeps over to the right when it gets really bad.

September 21st I had a root canal done as we found a problematic tooth

(back left molar)... we thought it would take care of the sore throat... I did

1 week of antibiotics, a Z-pack... felt GREAT on antibiotics. The sore

throat came back 3 days after the antibiotics ended.

November 17th I had the tooth extracted while on intranevous Vitamin C

(and the surrounding ligament was ground out) as the root canal wasn't healing

well. Again I was put on a Z-pack for 5 days. I felt awesome for about

10 days and then the sore throat started to creep back again.

Now I'm back on olive leaf and garlic pills which makes me feel 98%

normal. The sore throat only bugs me at night and especially in the middle of

the night when I wake up... unless it gets to that really bad stage and then

I feel crappy all the time, achey, fatigued, puss in the back of the

throat, sore throat at all hours etc. The burning has not completely gone away

in the past year EXCEPT for when I've been on antibiotics. "

thanks for any insight!

Jill