Someone posted on another thread that their doctor said if RA was really bacterial, it would go away after a month or two on antibiotics. Last night, I read this in Consumer Reports:
"It's been four years since Sandi Grello of Allentown, PA had hip surgery. Her hip joint healed just fine, but the antibiotic resistant staph infection she got in the hospital still affects her life. A few days after surgery, she developed a raging fever and was rushed back to the hospital. She had become septic from MRSA, an increasingly common cause of hospital-acquired infection. It took a week in the hospital and eight months of recuperation before she was strong enough to return to work.
Grello now takes daily antibiotics and meets with an infectious-disease specialist every three months to keep the infection at bay."
Her story is evidence to me that some things do take longer than a month or two.
Lyme takes forever and multiple antibiotics - but eventually they're cured!
Pip