you need them. TAKE THEM. antibiotics are grossly overprescribed but in this situation you DO need them, i know all about ear cysts bc my dad gets them and its not something you want to fuck around with.

you don't stick it in yr ear, you eat it silly..

that is the patented, cure-all for amerindians.. any mexican grandma will tell you, "mejo, comió su ajo?"

but yr garlick didn't prevent your cyst from becoming abcessed. so it's not a real cure-all... it's just the best one can hope for when there's no good medicine.

if you have doubts, call up the medick who treated you and ask for alternatives.

actually I never used the garlic preventatively, that is probably how the infection got out of hand in the first place.

I have used no homeopathic remedies on this one yet, so they have not had the opportunity to work or fail..

to mess with your mind. your thinking about chocolate right now arnt you? go on have a bit, open a window on your calender.

plus the capsules are made of gelatin :(

Thank God I'm not a Rastafarian.

my phone makes replying to pm's difficult, so...

"I know"

"yr right"

and

"I'm sorry"

suchfrineds, you need to take the full run of antibiotics. an ifection such as that is nothing to fuck with, as if left uintreated, or MALTREATED, then you could have a BRAIn infection man, or go blind, or some horrible shit in yr fucking head.

take care of yourself amnd take all the medications, but be cool for the weks after the antibiotics finish that you wash yr hands often and don't go aruond giving bear hugs to homeless and gutter punks son.

Ha ha ha!

Seriously, you man. You don't want to like die or something. Why anyone would want to not take advantage of one of the greatest medical breakthroughs ever is beyond me.

yah. See...you don't want to be put on yer dethbed again. take 'em already.

Good thing suchfriends is so easygoing. He's taken a lot of abuse in this thread. And rightly so: antibiotics good, infection bad--take antibiotics!

^ a sum of the whole thread

put leeches in yer ear!

antibiotics have nothing to do with the flu or the common copld or any other VIRUS

trhey are ANTI-BIOTICS, anti bacteria. it is abacterial infection you have, not a viral infection (which they can;t do shit about anyways as there is no real treatment for viral diesease)

Take the anti-biotics, and get those pills called pro-biotics. It will put good bacteria back in you.

If you really need something to believe in.

and most gelatin, like 90% of it, is made from seaweed. only cooking/chef quality gelatin is still made from boiling hooves and gristle.

Don't take the antibiotics. Embarrass everyone that knows you by dying of a disease easily prevented by a course of readily-available, prescribed and advised antibiotics.

I think this particular subject might be the first time I've ever seen a consensus on this board.