Thanks mate. Had a teleconsult this morning but still waiting for the dr's prescription to be phoned through so I can start on new antifungal drops.

@FrayedBear I just came across this article, thought you might be interested:

Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics?

[theguardian.com]

Plus an Oz article on antibiotic resistant UTI infections:

[www1.racgp.org.au]

@Zealandia Interesting. "Big pharmaceutical companies have left the field in search of greater profits elsewhere, and talented researchers have opted for new jobs in more stable sectors." . . . Like developing bio warfare weapons & releasing them to cause pandemics & enable gross profits from untested vaccines whilst blackmailing governments into passing indemnity law?

Antibiotic resistance is a problem that is rapidly compounding.you have MRSA (golden Staph) and a weaponised form of TB that is totally resistant to any antibiotic. There are thousands more examples I can supply.. Unbelievable as it may seem, there are antibiotics and treatments that actually do still work.They have worked for millennia.
Does not matter if you call it naturopathy, ayruveda, traditional Chinese medicine Herbalism, Hawaiian medicine, shamanism etc etc. the truth of the matter is they work,and have done for ever.
Plant/herbal medicines works on several fronts.
Example Aspirin ": Aspirin comes from the weeping willow tree bark. It has be used or centuries a for pain relief . It's ingredient is Acetylsalicylic acid, (NSAID)which has been sown to kill the liver , thin blood aso. YET willow bark straight does not have these negatives because the plant produces not just the aspirin but other compounds that may differ in only one atom or a different arrangement of the atoms.
While these associated compounds may not have the desired effect as does the Acetylsalicylic acid, they do work in conjunction with the Acetylsalicylic acid.
The extra compounds in willow bark amount to 32,apart from Acetylsalicylic acid.

This principle , in regard to antibiotics, makes it impossible for bacteria to evolve an immunity to the antibiotic properties of plants.
This is also the same as why we cannot get a cure for the common cold. Each cold variant has 250 other variants, each new strain will have another 250 variants, So far nothing we have found will cure the cold or flu. Let us hope that the bacteria never hire big Pharma. If they do all life could be in big trouble.

@FrayedBear True enough. we don't need big pharma. At lest we never did until about 150 years ago when a certain inventor millionaire financed allopathic medicine and created the pharma industry.
Before that, we did not have many answers , but we did have cures. There are no profits in cures. Now we have a lot of answers, mostly buried so deep, that even the sturdiest most advanced submarine cannot go so deep.

Thanks. I'll give you a phone call. The latest pathology is that it is fungal.

You're not connecting again! Gone walkabout? Please phone ayc..

@FrayedBear Next pension day. No credit.

@FrayedBear Candida?? Richard where have you been putting your ear????Hmmmm he he he

@vocaloldfart candida never mentioned just black fungus & perforated ear drum..

@vocaloldfart not where I've been putting but what did the quack put in my ear to perforate the drum?