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                        I have just been diagnosed with osteomyelitis.  Nothing could be cultured from bone or tissue biopsy.  So far I have had 5 operations - two teeth removed - and have been treated by 3 dental specialists.  Over the past  five years no one could diagnose the problem.      An old root canal (20 years ago) may have been the source of the original infection.  I am on pencillin vk 300mg novo for the  next six months.  In the near future I shall probably undergo move surgery to remove the dead bone and I shall also be treated in  a hypobaric chamber.    I have been told this is very rare - and very hard to diagnose.