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C. difficile – Are your guts ever normal again?
Does anyone know any body that has recovered from c.diff (guts back to pre-c.diff status ) . I have been negative for a year and still have bloating every time I eat anything and sporadic diarrhea. I need maternity clothing to eat and be comfortable. I have 0 appetite since I was initially infected.I am on creon 36,000 . this helps some what with bloating,I take papya&pineapple enzymes not helping, and floraster 2xday not sure about that.I have tried the FODMAP diet, I avoid many foods on that diet. I am seeing an RD, just finished an elimination diet with her. If I eat I bloat there for I am. Bottom line...are my guts ruined forever ?
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Well. At least one im already allergic to erthromycin. And yes i do have bries available but not needed yet. I was in the hosp when i had mine and the bathroom was a few feet away. I dread having it at home the bathroom is not very close most of the time. Plus stairs and carpet.
@annapocono I got Cdiff two weeks after taking Clindamycin. I was prescribed it for 14 days for my 4th sinus infection. NEVER again. I had also taken a Zpack after my 2nd sinus infection. Thank the good Lord I got through last winter without getting a sinus infection. Praying this winter goes as well as last. My last and 4th bout of Cdiff was last October. I've made it almost a year. I had a heck of a time getting rid of it. So thankful that Dificid worked as Flagyl and two RX's for Vancomycin both couldn't touch that dreadful spore.
So, does anyone have an idea of what medication you will take if you need an antibiotic for an infection? The thought of getting sick this winter terrorizes me! I have been okay since my fmt back in March, but that was after 6 months of relapsing over and over again. The anxiety of getting cdiff again makes me lose my breath.
Well one i was on was Bactrim for a lung infection but due to blood count issues they are switching me to a once a month inhalat called Pentamidine. It attacks the virus directly in the lungs. So it won't affect the blood stream. This is preventive but also should not cause cdif. I haven't started yet but we will see.
it has been five years since I had a fecal transplant after having cdiff four times and my gut has never been the same, daily bloated and dirarrea. I have taken the florastor all these years and avoided antibiotics til this week and now I have to take them and am scared the cdiff will come back again so doubled the florastor. I have SIBO, diverticulitis, hiatal hernia, GERD and Barretts. The cod put me on a diet of eating just about nothing but it makes no difference.
So sorry I still have bowel issues plus leaking from rectum after have bowel movements totally awful and rectal discomfort. I don’t think you ever get back to normal. So depressing
Good luck
I would take a cillin before I take a mycin. Different spectrums of antibiotics
I am taking three days of microbid and praying a lot. I got cdiff from taking all the other antibiotics for a sinus infection til I passed out in the docs office and she called an ambulance. Couldn't get rid of it til a doc did the fecal transplant and my gut never healed and he has scared me so much I am surprised I eat anything. He does everything with a diet, well good luck with that.
Mine was caused by clindamycin and long term use of Prevacid. Ppl drugs not good for anyone who has had or has cdiff