I -refuse- to take antibiotics for strep, and I want to know what you have to say about it.

Background: I have Lyme and Candida.

Just three days ago, I contracted Strep throat. I assume, by how health conscious all of you are (this is the most educated Lyme forum on the net), that you are familiar with how devastating antibiotics are to your body. For example, antibiotics were the cause of my candida overgrowth.

Now, I have been on a VERY strict diet of only quality meat, vegetables, and good fat, and was doing VERY good with it without any cheating for almost a year in order to reduce the Candida. Also, I have been on a near perfect regimen of expensive herbs to also reduce the yeast/fungus. With this, I have actually started to see the light, and notice a BIG reduction of symptoms. But, if I take antibiotics again, I'm afraid I'll have to start all over, and this kills me. I've come so far =(

I know you can treat strep naturally. I know that strep even goes away on its own. But is it different in people like us? With compromised immune systems?

Quoted from website:
"Conventional doctors today do a great job of scaring people out of their minds about the possibility of rheumatic fever/heart damage from allowing the body to deal with a strep throat infection unmedicated. However, the truth is, the risk of complications from strep throat is very small for healthy people who have no issues with their immune system."

So what about us? Do I not have the luxury of toughing it out? Its the argument of possible rheumatic fever/heart damage vs. guaranteed more Candida overgrowth.

Help please.

I had chronic strep as well. I was also reluctant to take antibiotics so I stuck with herbs.