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I don’t understand, how did it become resistant due to the penicillin? And it seems you’re blaming the doctor for this, but penicillin would be the natural firs

I don’t understand, how did it become resistant due to the penicillin? And it seems you’re blaming the doctor for this, but penicillin would be the natural first course of treatment here.

nvrspyx 7y ago
I mainly blame the doctor for not testing for strep and the multiple times he was "convinced" it was something else without testing for it. Under no circumstances should a doctor say "I'm convinced you have HIV. The tests will confirm this". Furthermore, penicillin is only suggested for group A strep, which has already been declining in effectiveness since the 80s. It also shouldn't be given simply as a precaution until you know what bacteria you're dealing with. It was probably already a resistant strain of strep, but the way the following doctor explained it to me was that by introducing the penicillin, it made it more resistant to other antibiotics that I should've taken instead. The only course of action I had was to wait it out. She said she could have tried other antiobiotics, but there was no way to tell if it would work. Luckily, I was already recovering by the time we got the results back for strep throat. P.S. The person I contracted the strep throat from was fine after about a week of clindamycin. EDIT: I’m no doctor myself. I’m just going based on what I was told. If the second doctor gave me bad information, then I’ll be happy to assume that both were shitty doctors. That wasn’t the only time I had horrible experiences with that clinic (completely forgot to document multiple doctor’s visits and weeks of PT I had in relation to a sports injury and I lost my redshirt eligibility as a result as there was no proof of the injury). That clinic was the only option I had with student-athlete health insurance. But, I’m not changing my mind on the first doctor after everything else, regardless of the penicillin.
- masonic 7y ago
  I mainly blame the doctor for not testing for strep Strep has to be cultured. In the meantime, the care you were given was absolutely appropriate.
  - nvrspyx 7y ago
    I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that lab tests for other bacteria need to be cultured as well, such as staph, which he did request labs for. Again, I'm not saying penicillin wasn't appropriate because I'm not a doctor. However, he continued to test everything but the one thing I asked him to, which it turned out I had. As I also said in another comment, he told me to continue using the high doses of penicillin (500mg IIRC) throughout him being convinced I had something viral, then an STD, and then HIV without ever changing the dosage and despite my condition getting progressively worse. There's multiple things I blame him for, the most upsetting being the statement-of-fact that I had HIV when I didn't. I also don't believe he was fired for no reason.

I don’t understand, how did it become resistant due to the penicillin? And it seems you’re blaming the doctor for this, but penicillin would be the natural first course of treatment here.

nvrspyx 7y ago

I mainly blame the doctor for not testing for strep and the multiple times he was "convinced" it was something else without testing for it. Under no circumstances should a doctor say "I'm convinced you have HIV. The tests will confirm this". Furthermore, penicillin is only suggested for group A strep, which has already been declining in effectiveness since the 80s. It also shouldn't be given simply as a precaution until you know what bacteria you're dealing with. It was probably already a resistant strain of strep, but the way the following doctor explained it to me was that by introducing the penicillin, it made it more resistant to other antibiotics that I should've taken instead. The only course of action I had was to wait it out. She said she could have tried other antiobiotics, but there was no way to tell if it would work. Luckily, I was already recovering by the time we got the results back for strep throat. P.S. The person I contracted the strep throat from was fine after about a week of clindamycin. EDIT: I’m no doctor myself. I’m just going based on what I was told. If the second doctor gave me bad information, then I’ll be happy to assume that both were shitty doctors. That wasn’t the only time I had horrible experiences with that clinic (completely forgot to document multiple doctor’s visits and weeks of PT I had in relation to a sports injury and I lost my redshirt eligibility as a result as there was no proof of the injury). That clinic was the only option I had with student-athlete health insurance. But, I’m not changing my mind on the first doctor after everything else, regardless of the penicillin.

masonic 7y ago
I mainly blame the doctor for not testing for strep Strep has to be cultured. In the meantime, the care you were given was absolutely appropriate.
- nvrspyx 7y ago
  I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that lab tests for other bacteria need to be cultured as well, such as staph, which he did request labs for. Again, I'm not saying penicillin wasn't appropriate because I'm not a doctor. However, he continued to test everything but the one thing I asked him to, which it turned out I had. As I also said in another comment, he told me to continue using the high doses of penicillin (500mg IIRC) throughout him being convinced I had something viral, then an STD, and then HIV without ever changing the dosage and despite my condition getting progressively worse. There's multiple things I blame him for, the most upsetting being the statement-of-fact that I had HIV when I didn't. I also don't believe he was fired for no reason.