While reading this thread, I had to grimace a bit. Not so much from the graphic details but from the fact that your condition was another example of "crapshoot medicine". I'm no physician but I've never heard of anyone treating an infection with a topical powder. As advanced as modern medicine may seem to us sometimes, much of it gets treated with the shotgun approach antibiotics), or expensive preceedures (structural repair). Old world and natural fixes have been abandoned in favor of substances pushed by the large pharmaceutical companies. AS we well know that has had its own consequences. Anyway, best of luck with the problem and hope you see a speedy recovery.