Calling all you smart medical glpers...I need help with a sinus infection

I should probably mention this since it has come up. We have had the ducts cleaned out and a mold inspection, but that was a few years ago. Luckily, that isn't it. I have had this problem since long before we even moved into this house, so it isn't environmental (at least not indoors). It could be an outdoor allergen. I really don't know. All I know is that after 2 sinus surgeries, I still can't get rid of it.

I'm going to try colloidal silver and hydrogen peroxide first.

If anyone has any brands they swear by, please let me know.

Also, I'm going to start eating even more garlic. I can slice those up and mix them in with my salads and I will eat the heck out of it. I'm fortunate in that I love garlic.

That seems like the cheapest and easiest plan of action to start with. I will still incorporate other ideas from this thread and I am going to update you all with the results of my various attempts to get the heck rid of this dang infection.

I really think that most of my yuckiness is from the infection rather than the RA. I don't have very much joint damage (except my fingers and toes), so I really do think it's the chronic infection that has caused me so much grief.

I eat a lot of rice. I could start just doing stir fries. I just really love my salads with all my different leafies. Maybe I should toss some diatomaceous earth into the mix.

Okay, so it started well over 20 years ago. ... the RA causing it, or maybe anxiety and depression due to the current state of the world, or a combination of all of it. Whatever it is, I am so sick.

You guys, I can barely move.

You need antibiotics at this point.

You can try Mupirocin Ointment in your nose. This treats nasal infections and you can freely purchase this product with the 2% dosage at PetMeds.

Here is info on Mupirocin : [link to www.rxlist.com (secure)]

What is mupirocin nasal (Bactroban)?

Mupirocin is an antibiotic that treats or prevents infection caused by bacteria.

Mupirocin nasal (for use in the nose) is used to treat bacteria in the nostrils of patients and healthcare workers during an outbreak of severe staph infection within a hospital or other medical setting. This can help prevent the growth of staph bacteria in patients with a high risk of infection.

And how to use it: [link to www.rxlist.com (secure)]

How should I use mupirocin nasal (Bactroban)?

Follow all directions on your prescription label and read all medication guides or instruction sheets. Use the medicine exactly as directed.

Do not take by mouth. Nasal medicine is for use only in the nose. If this medicine gets in your eyes or mouth, rinse with water.

Wash your hands before and after applying mupirocin nasal.

Use one half of the medicine from a single-use tube in each nostril, then throw the tube away.

With the ointment in your nostrils, gently press on the sides of your nose and rub for about 1 minute to help spread the ointment inside your nose.

Where you can purchase: [link to www.1800petmeds.com (secure)]

I should probably mention this since it has come up. We have had the ducts cleaned out and a mold inspection, but that was a few years ago. Luckily, that isn't it. I have had this problem since long before we even moved into this house, so it isn't environmental (at least not indoors). It could be an outdoor allergen. I really don't know. All I know is that after 2 sinus surgeries, I still can't get rid of it.

I'm going to try colloidal silver and hydrogen peroxide first.

If anyone has any brands they swear by, please let me know.

Also, I'm going to start eating even more garlic. I can slice those up and mix them in with my salads and I will eat the heck out of it. I'm fortunate in that I love garlic.

That seems like the cheapest and easiest plan of action to start with. I will still incorporate other ideas from this thread and I am going to update you all with the results of my various attempts to get the heck rid of this dang infection.

I really think that most of my yuckiness is from the infection rather than the RA. I don't have very much joint damage (except my fingers and toes), so I really do think it's the chronic infection that has caused me so much grief.

Okay, so it started well over 20 years ago. At first it was a fungal infection in my sinuses. I had surgery to open up my sinuses and it got better for a while.

It started again, but this time it was cultured as staph. I don't know what kind. It's probably the same kind that caused my head infection after my chiari surgery, which means it could be in my brain by now, but MRI says it isn't (7ish yrs ago).

I had another sinus surgery and it got better again (about 3 years ago). Then I lost my health insurance because I have rheumatoid arthritis and can only work part time.

It's back. I have taken antibiotics. I have been doing the rinses with saline and sometimes also with budesonide. I cant get rid of it. I thought maybe I could just live with it but now I'm so sick I can barely function.

I don't know if it is the sinus infection causing it, the RA causing it, or maybe anxiety and depression due to the current state of the world, or a combination of all of it. Whatever it is, I am so sick.

You guys, I can barely move. In the past 3 days, I have been asleep for all but maybe 10 hrs total. I'm exhausted. I'm nauseous. I can't function.

I don't know what to do. I refuse to go to the hospital. They won't treat me well because I'm not vaxxed. I'm out of ideas.

I eat mostly raw veggies out of my garden because I don't trust grocery food anymore, but I do still eat some grocery store food like rice and beans. It's not my diet causing the trouble.

I get plenty of properly filtered water so I'm not dehydrated.

I regularly take vitamin D, C, zinc, quercetin, magnesium, calcium, l-lysine, and elderberry supplements.

I'm not overweight.

I am just so sick and out of ideas.

I know you guys are really good with this sort of thing. I hope you can help me come up with some way to fix it.

First of all, I need to get rid of this infection. I think it will help the most to be rid of that crap in my head.

Any ideas that aren't crazy expensive or just...crazy?

I am so sick: (

Okay, so it started well over 20 years ago. At first it was a fungal infection in my sinuses. I had surgery to open up my sinuses and it got better for a while.

It started again, but this time it was cultured as staph. I don't know what kind. It's probably the same kind that caused my head infection after my chiari surgery, which means it could be in my brain by now, but MRI says it isn't (7ish yrs ago).

I had another sinus surgery and it got better again (about 3 years ago). Then I lost my health insurance because I have rheumatoid arthritis and can only work part time.

It's back. I have taken antibiotics. I have been doing the rinses with saline and sometimes also with budesonide. I cant get rid of it. I thought maybe I could just live with it but now I'm so sick I can barely function.

I don't know if it is the sinus infection causing it, the RA causing it, or maybe anxiety and depression due to the current state of the world, or a combination of all of it. Whatever it is, I am so sick.

You guys, I can barely move. In the past 3 days, I have been asleep for all but maybe 10 hrs total. I'm exhausted. I'm nauseous. I can't function.

I don't know what to do. I refuse to go to the hospital. They won't treat me well because I'm not vaxxed. I'm out of ideas.

I eat mostly raw veggies out of my garden because I don't trust grocery food anymore, but I do still eat some grocery store food like rice and beans. It's not my diet causing the trouble.

I get plenty of properly filtered water so I'm not dehydrated.

I regularly take vitamin D, C, zinc, quercetin, magnesium, calcium, l-lysine, and elderberry supplements.

I'm not overweight.

I am just so sick and out of ideas.

I know you guys are really good with this sort of thing. I hope you can help me come up with some way to fix it.

First of all, I need to get rid of this infection. I think it will help the most to be rid of that crap in my head.

Any ideas that aren't crazy expensive or just...crazy?

I am so sick: (

[link to theartofmakingcolloidalsilver.com (secure)]
Sinusitis is the reason I discovered colloidal silver over 30 years ago. I had been suffering from sinus infections my entire life. My work involved frequent travel all over the world. At each destination, within a few days, I would come down with a sinus infection. I would seek help from the local medical community, which would result in the injection of the latest antibiotic. That would usually clear it up in a few days. I had a long history of trying to remedy this situation. I had seen many ears, nose, and throat specialists and allergists and even had an operation, an SMR (subcutaneous membrane restructure), but I was still subject to infections. I was then, and I still am, disdainful of “alternative medicine.” I was in Las Vegas on a job and had been unable to work for three days. I had been bedridden with a fever that would break and reappear, drink a lot of water, and “sweat it out.” I was awake in the middle of the night and listening to an all-night radio program that featured guests promoting various “wacko” subjects, from flying saucers to conspiracy theories.

One of these guests was promoting colloidal silver. He sounded more rational than the usual people on this program. I had not been aware that silver had been used extensively as an antimicrobial before the introduction of antibiotics. The following day I called the local health food store and ordered an 8-ounce bottle of the colloidal silver they recommended. They sent it over by taxi, and the driver delivered it to my hotel room. It came with a dropper, and I started to flood my sinus cavities with it. Within two hours, all my symptoms disappeared. I was determined to never be without this remedy in the future.

A few months later, I went to the Philippines for what was to be a relatively long-term assignment. I had been using the colloidal silver I bought in Las Vegas, and it was preventing any recurrence of my sinus problems. I was down to my last few ounces, so I called the health food store in Las Vegas and told them I wanted more of the same thing. They said that they had switched to a new, improved version. So I accepted this and ordered. I received a dark, amber-colored substance with a vinegar-like taste and was very different from what I expected. I decided to find out precisely what “colloidal silver” was and how to make it. The process of electrolysis was no mystery to me, and Michael Faraday I regarded as an old friend. On researching the “state-of-the-art” for making this substance, I realized that no electronics expertise had been applied. I bought some pure silver, 999, and proceeded to make my own.

When I started the thread, the intent was to “clean up” the subject of making colloidal silver. There existed a great deal of misinformation about making colloidal silver. Some of this was deliberate, propagated by people who wish to sell you a product in a bottle, claiming that they were the only ones who knew how to make that particular “silver cure-all.” These snake-oil salesmen claimed that colloidal silver “kills all bacteria.” this played into the pharmaceutical industry’s hands. That industry saw silver as a threat to their bottom line. They couldn’t patent silver. They could not prevent individuals from devising methods to suspend particles of silver in water. The earliest processes were grinding the smallest pieces of elemental silver and merely adding them to water. Fifty years ago, you would find bottles of colloidal silver with instructions on the label to “shake the bottle” before using it. Some manufacturers added nitric acid to the solution, producing silver nitrate, a solution that could be easily misused. This effect was made famous by Rosemary Jacobs, who turned herself blue with it. The pharmaceutical industry became her publicist.

A “treasure chest” of threads has proven to be of great interest. I am pleased that they chose to put “the art of making colloidal silver” at the top of the list. Here is the proper link to that thread:
[link to www.goldismoney2.com (secure)]

Okay, so it started well over 20 years ago. At first it was a fungal infection in my sinuses. I had surgery to open up my sinuses and it got better for a while.

It started again, but this time it was cultured as staph. I don't know what kind. It's probably the same kind that caused my head infection after my chiari surgery, which means it could be in my brain by now, but MRI says it isn't (7ish yrs ago).

I had another sinus surgery and it got better again (about 3 years ago). Then I lost my health insurance because I have rheumatoid arthritis and can only work part time.

It's back. I have taken antibiotics. I have been doing the rinses with saline and sometimes also with budesonide. I cant get rid of it. I thought maybe I could just live with it but now I'm so sick I can barely function.

I don't know if it is the sinus infection causing it, the RA causing it, or maybe anxiety and depression due to the current state of the world, or a combination of all of it. Whatever it is, I am so sick.

You guys, I can barely move. In the past 3 days, I have been asleep for all but maybe 10 hrs total. I'm exhausted. I'm nauseous. I can't function.

I don't know what to do. I refuse to go to the hospital. They won't treat me well because I'm not vaxxed. I'm out of ideas.

I eat mostly raw veggies out of my garden because I don't trust grocery food anymore, but I do still eat some grocery store food like rice and beans. It's not my diet causing the trouble.

I get plenty of properly filtered water so I'm not dehydrated.

I regularly take vitamin D, C, zinc, quercetin, magnesium, calcium, l-lysine, and elderberry supplements.

I'm not overweight.

I am just so sick and out of ideas.

I know you guys are really good with this sort of thing. I hope you can help me come up with some way to fix it.

First of all, I need to get rid of this infection. I think it will help the most to be rid of that crap in my head.

Any ideas that aren't crazy expensive or just...crazy?

I am so sick: (

Hydrogen peroxide in the ears.

Okay, so it started well over 20 years ago. At first it was a fungal infection in my sinuses. I had surgery to open up my sinuses and it got better for a while.

It started again, but this time it was cultured as staph. I don't know what kind. It's probably the same kind that caused my head infection after my chiari surgery, which means it could be in my brain by now, but MRI says it isn't (7ish yrs ago).

I had another sinus surgery and it got better again (about 3 years ago). Then I lost my health insurance because I have rheumatoid arthritis and can only work part time.

It's back. I have taken antibiotics. I have been doing the rinses with saline and sometimes also with budesonide. I cant get rid of it. I thought maybe I could just live with it but now I'm so sick I can barely function.

I don't know if it is the sinus infection causing it, the RA causing it, or maybe anxiety and depression due to the current state of the world, or a combination of all of it. Whatever it is, I am so sick.

You guys, I can barely move. In the past 3 days, I have been asleep for all but maybe 10 hrs total. I'm exhausted. I'm nauseous. I can't function.

I don't know what to do. I refuse to go to the hospital. They won't treat me well because I'm not vaxxed. I'm out of ideas.

I eat mostly raw veggies out of my garden because I don't trust grocery food anymore, but I do still eat some grocery store food like rice and beans. It's not my diet causing the trouble.

I get plenty of properly filtered water so I'm not dehydrated.

I regularly take vitamin D, C, zinc, quercetin, magnesium, calcium, l-lysine, and elderberry supplements.

I'm not overweight.

I am just so sick and out of ideas.

I know you guys are really good with this sort of thing. I hope you can help me come up with some way to fix it.

First of all, I need to get rid of this infection. I think it will help the most to be rid of that crap in my head.

Any ideas that aren't crazy expensive or just...crazy?

I am so sick: (

Okay, so it started well over 20 years ago. At first it was a fungal infection in my sinuses. I had surgery to open up my sinuses and it got better for a while.

It started again, but this time it was cultured as staph. I don't know what kind. It's probably the same kind that caused my head infection after my chiari surgery, which means it could be in my brain by now, but MRI says it isn't (7ish yrs ago).

I had another sinus surgery and it got better again (about 3 years ago). Then I lost my health insurance because I have rheumatoid arthritis and can only work part time.

It's back. I have taken antibiotics. I have been doing the rinses with saline and sometimes also with budesonide. I cant get rid of it. I thought maybe I could just live with it but now I'm so sick I can barely function.

I don't know if it is the sinus infection causing it, the RA causing it, or maybe anxiety and depression due to the current state of the world, or a combination of all of it. Whatever it is, I am so sick.

You guys, I can barely move. In the past 3 days, I have been asleep for all but maybe 10 hrs total. I'm exhausted. I'm nauseous. I can't function.

I don't know what to do. I refuse to go to the hospital. They won't treat me well because I'm not vaxxed. I'm out of ideas.

I eat mostly raw veggies out of my garden because I don't trust grocery food anymore, but I do still eat some grocery store food like rice and beans. It's not my diet causing the trouble.

I get plenty of properly filtered water so I'm not dehydrated.

I regularly take vitamin D, C, zinc, quercetin, magnesium, calcium, l-lysine, and elderberry supplements.

I'm not overweight.

I am just so sick and out of ideas.

I know you guys are really good with this sort of thing. I hope you can help me come up with some way to fix it.

First of all, I need to get rid of this infection. I think it will help the most to be rid of that crap in my head.

Any ideas that aren't crazy expensive or just...crazy?

I am so sick: (

Okay, so it started well over 20 years ago. At first it was a fungal infection in my sinuses. I had surgery to open up my sinuses and it got better for a while.

It started again, but this time it was cultured as staph. I don't know what kind. It's probably the same kind that caused my head infection after my chiari surgery, which means it could be in my brain by now, but MRI says it isn't (7ish yrs ago).

I had another sinus surgery and it got better again (about 3 years ago). Then I lost my health insurance because I have rheumatoid arthritis and can only work part time.

It's back. I have taken antibiotics. I have been doing the rinses with saline and sometimes also with budesonide. I cant get rid of it. I thought maybe I could just live with it but now I'm so sick I can barely function.

I don't know if it is the sinus infection causing it, the RA causing it, or maybe anxiety and depression due to the current state of the world, or a combination of all of it. Whatever it is, I am so sick.

You guys, I can barely move. In the past 3 days, I have been asleep for all but maybe 10 hrs total. I'm exhausted. I'm nauseous. I can't function.

I don't know what to do. I refuse to go to the hospital. They won't treat me well because I'm not vaxxed. I'm out of ideas.

I eat mostly raw veggies out of my garden because I don't trust grocery food anymore, but I do still eat some grocery store food like rice and beans. It's not my diet causing the trouble.

I get plenty of properly filtered water so I'm not dehydrated.

I regularly take vitamin D, C, zinc, quercetin, magnesium, calcium, l-lysine, and elderberry supplements.

I'm not overweight.

I am just so sick and out of ideas.

I know you guys are really good with this sort of thing. I hope you can help me come up with some way to fix it.

First of all, I need to get rid of this infection. I think it will help the most to be rid of that crap in my head.

Any ideas that aren't crazy expensive or just...crazy?

I am so sick: (

I've been thinking about trying colloidal silver.