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Trying to recover from a c. diff infection (Clostridium difficile)

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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.

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vic83 | @vic83 | Mar 2 5:00pm

That is so interesting. I just had a colonoscopy at Mayo and the GI besides removing polyps also noted that mucous was granular so he took biopsies throughout the entire colon for possible microscopic colitis. Fortunately I was negative for it.
And what I now tell everyone is that even if you are near "aging out" from colonoscopies, do them!!! In 2010 I had 2 10mm precancerous polyps, but in 2013 and 2018 I only had 1 and 2 polyps found and they were not precancerous. So that period was eight years and no cancerous polyps.
Then in 2024 - 14 years from 2010 and 5+ years from last colonoscopy, they find 3 polyps - each a different type and all precancerous!!! And one even 12mm!!!

Am also impressed that Bactrim caused you C-diff as I have been given it more than once with the statement that it is relatively safe.

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