Years ago, the virulent disease MRSA entered our house. I was last in the family to get it. It nearly killed me. The powerful antibiotics given to me at the hospital to save my life killed every germ in my body. When that happens, it opens the floodgates for mold infections -- unaffected by antibiotics. Suddenly, I had a wicked ear infection.
Dr. Todd Schachter, DO, our family doctor, referred me to an ear, nose and throat specialist in Voorhees, New Jersey. The latter doctor's treatment dragged on and on and on, for week after week. I'd come in for my appointment, shell-out my deductible, bend my head sideways for carefully-administered eardrops, and go home with cotton in my ears and a prescription for ear drops at home.
When this went on for 3 months, I became suspicious. Was the ears, nose and throat specialist just running up the tab? I had listened carefully when he said that I had a Candida albicans infection in my ear -- a common yeast infection. I checked the label on my ear drops -- the concentration of anti-yeast medication was 1% of that if my wife's vaginal medication. I thought, "WHAAAAAAT?"
So, I put a single dab of vaginal yeast medication of a cotton swab, spread the medication in my ear canal, and slept on it.
The next day, my Candida infection was cured.
One day after that, I had my appointment with the ear, nose and throat specialist. "Huh!" he said as he examined me, "Your infection's all gone! How?" As though he knew that it shouldn't have been.
When I told Dr. Schachter the story, he burst out laughing and said, "I should have referred you to a gynecologist."
I'm speechless!
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