yeah, anti-biotics tend to be over-prescribed. lots of fluids and some healthy food should help. in the majority of cases where anti-biotics are prescribed people get better about as well as they would have without the anti-biotics. but they credit their getting better to the anti-biotics and come to believe that taking them was responsible for their recovery. By prescribing anti-biotics so much we are basically (unintentionally) breeding strains of super-bugs that don't respond well to anti-biotics. very dangerous... especially for the very young and very old...

I'd have more faith in a doc that was hesitant to prescribe them than a doc who gave them to me on demand...

hang in there.