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Trying to recover from a c. diff infection (Clostridium difficile)
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"Yersiniosis is an infection caused most often by eating raw or undercooked pork contaminated with Yersinia enterocolitica bacteria."
So first you tested positive for Yersiniosis and then later positive for C-diff? What a mess!
Bactrim is considered to have low risk for C-diff.
Google search:
Clindamycin and fluoroquinolones are some of the worst offenders. The list of antibiotics that could cause C.Diff includes:
• cephalosporins
• clindamycin (Cleocin)
• ciprofloxacin (Cipro)
• levofloxacin (Levaquin)
• moxifloxacin (Avalox, Vigamox)
• amoxicillin (Amoxil)
Which antibiotics are less likely to cause C.Diff?:
• azithromycin (Zithromax, Z-Pak)
• clarithromycin (Biaxin)
• doxycycline (Oracea, Vibramycin)
• erythromycin (Eryped)
• fidaxomicin (Dificid)
• minocycline (Minocin, Solodyn)
• metronidazole (Flagyl
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So…. After I finished the course of antibiotic for Yersenia and then for C -Diff, the diarrhea didn’t stop and by that point it had been going on for six months. So based on a hunch of the GI doc, I had a colonoscopy with random biopsies taken - and learned I had something called collagenous microscopic colitis. That was resolved with almost 4 months of a steroid that is processed in the colon so no systemic effects - although I had symptomatic relief only days after starting it.
GI doc thinks the stool sample showing Yersenia was a red herring because so many people are carrying it around with no symptoms. And of course the C-Diff was triggered by the treatment for Yersinia. So almost a year to get proper diagnosis and treatment but it has taken some people longer.