Kissmebaby, Your email provides me so much reassurance. It's nearly impossible to find anyone or any doctor in the U.S. familiar with actinomycosis in order to get treatment. How do you know you got it from sandfly bites? I have bug bite scars all around my ankles and suspected this was at least a partial cause of my troubles but never could confirm. From the literature, I found that you get co-infections from actinomycosis, particularly candida albicans and viral infections. The same thing happens with other illnesses like lyme because once the immune system becomes compromised, you become more susceptible to catching bugs. I know candida, a fungal infection that also infects the gut and lungs, thrives on sugar, estrogen, steroids...not sure about soy. It seems all the things doctors prescribed to try to quell the symptoms of idiopathic ailments you complained of were actually causing you to get worse. It's no wonder now that they don't or won't acknowledge that gut fungal infections even exist -- at least the horde of doctors I saw. I'm having difficulty finding an infectious diseases doctor familiar with abdominal actinomycosis. Do you have someone I might contact even if he is far away? |
