Dr. Deepak Chopra says that if you have a healing story, share it, because the story carries 'hope' element that can transform and heal people surrounding me. This is why I am going to share my small victory against drug-resistant H. Pylori with my friends so that you all will be benefited from my story now or in the future.
The story started on April, 2012 when I had endoscopy test for my chronic gastritis. The test showed that I had H. Pylori infection. Initially, I did not worry about it very much.
"Big deal? A 2-week antibiotic treatment will eradicate the bug." I said it to myself.
Well, I was wrong. It took 3-regiment of antibiotic treatment to show 'negative' breath test. I was about to celebrate the results, the doctor said that the victory could be temporary. The bug may come back. The doctor asks me to take breath test every 3 months.
I followed doctor's direction and did the breath test in September and in December of 2012. It all came back negative. However, in March, 2013, the breath test came back positive.
I was devastating. The bug I have is a very tough bug--a drug-resistant H. Pylori.
Doctor told me to take a 21-day antibiotic regiment treatment again.
"What is the odd of eradicating H. Pylori with this new regiment of treatment?" I asked.
"About 50-50" The doctor replied.
"Does that mean if this last treatment fail agin, this bug becomes a super-bug and non-treatable by any antibiotic medication?" I asked.
"That is correct." The doctor replied.
I refused to follow 21-day drug treatment.
"There got to have a smarter way of treating the infection." I said to myself.
I began to do the research and ask my G.I. doctor to do the endoscopy again and send the culture to Mayo Clinic to see specific strain that my bug belongs to.
The last endoscopy was done on June 18, 2013.
Here are the results:
Initial culture results done at Theda-Clark: negative.
7-day culture results done at Mayo Clinic: negative (final)
The doctor called me today (July 1, 2013.) and congratulated me. He said that I can declare victory over this difficult battle.
On Part II, I will describe how I did it without using drug.
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