I just learned today that I am positive for C Diff for the second time. I had it in October and was sick for a month before I was finally picked up by EMT’s and taken to the hospital. While there I managed to get MRSA in my blood and pneumonia. I also had a bad UTI. I was in the hospital for 21 days and there were times I really thought I was going to die. I am allergic to Vanco so after a week of taking that they put me on Dificid. I went home mid November, tested negative 2 weeks later and now I’m back for more punishment. What is worse, (I’m fairly certain) is my doctor prescribed Clindamycin! From everything I’ve read Clindamycin has been known to CAUSE C Diff! Now we’re into the weekend, AND it’s New Year’s Eve and I’m honestly scared to wait until Monday to get the right prescription! Why would an Internist who knows I just got out of the hospital prescribe that? Sure, he’s human, but what if I hadn’t read what I had? There are a lot of people out there who just do as their doctors say without educating themselves! I know before I went in the hospital the last time he had me taking Clindamycin. Would that make the infection worse? Because by the time I called the paramedics I was very sick, but had been infected already for 30+ days. I believe I got the other infections while in the hospital because of the medication I was taking for rheumatoid arthritis, even though they immediately took me off of it. I didn’t know why they had done that at the time and honestly I don’t even remember the first week I was there. It felt like it just hit me out of left field and sinee my sister passed away after getting C Diff after knee replacement surgery (she had RA as well) I was terrified. They were running all sorts of tests on me, gave me a blood transfusion and a lot of other things I don’t even remember. I went from a size 9 to a size 4 in 3 weeks and I’m scared I’m going to end up back in the hopital! For now I’m just going to contact the doctor on call tomorrow and explain my situation and really hope for the best. My immune system is still weakened even though I’m still not on any medication for my rheumatoid arthritis which has begun rearing it’s ugly head as well. This all started with a revision reverse shoulder replacement surgery which is.another long story I won’t go into…but this is all just crazy! I want off this terrible ride and I’m hope hope hoping this will be my last fight with C Diff. My empathy goes out to all those who are suffering with this awful, insidious infection!