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C. difficile – Are your guts ever normal again?

Digestive Health | Last Active: Jul 15 5:56pm | Replies (646)
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Explain the pulse and taper to me, please? I think that’s what my doc is going to do starting next week as I’m finishing up myb2 weeks of 250 mg vanco.

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pines | @pines | Sep 17, 2019

@patts When you do a pulse a taper, it's a way of weaning you off the drug and hope more "good" bacteria will grow. You may now be taking 2 or 3 Vanco a day and when you taper, you may go to 1 or 2 and day for one week and then it will be cut to one a day.... and in my case, I even went to 1 every other day. However, two weeks after doing that, the Cdiff returned. As a last resort, I took Dificid which is highly expensive. I had made the decision that if the Dificid did not work, I would do the FMT.

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