← Return to Stool consistency while on vancomycin and its significance

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Hi, don't mind sharing at all. How else are we going to understand this. Tapering off vancomycin : 2 pills a day then miss 1 day, take 2 miss 1 day. Than next week, take 2 then miss2 days. For a week.
The stool before diagnosed was watery diarrhea with this jelly type substance coming out. As the vancomycin started to work, became soft and slightly formed. Stayed like that till now. There was a distinctive smell which tells you you still have c diff, also a burning sensation when going. It was so violent in the beginning l developed fissures. Weakness and blood platelets dropped dramatically, 1 step from hospital. I'm pretty tough though this has taken me down for 7 months. That's it basically, if not for a very caring husband l would have definitely been in hospital.

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Truly My heart goes out to you. I do hope you will get out of this very very soon. Glad to hear you have a great support otherwise we cannot go through this alone. Please keep us posted on how you progress. You will be in my prayers.

Thank you for sharing. It’s great that your husband is so supportive. I am going through this too, and I can’t imagine doing this without the support of my wife. This disease is frustrating on so many levels, not the least of which is that science, diet, treatment, medicines for recovery, are all over the place. The diagnosis, short of another test, appears to be the type of stool you have, and as you say the “smell,” at least that’s my thought. When I got it last October as result of a surgery, my symptoms were similar to yours. In the three months since, I’ve recurred twice. I’m on my third course of meds (second time on vanco). I also am weaning. My “wean” is a little different than yours, but I understand there are so many types of tapers and pulses. My movements have stayed mostly very loose throughout this three months. There were a few days at the end of this last full dose (before the weaning) that I had formed (still pretty soft) small stools. But then that switched back to loose stools for a few days, then small formed stools, now I’m back to loose stools, some looser than others. I was hoping for a gradual return to solid stools, at least maybe as a sign the vanco was killing all the cdiff. My diet, at least during the last two courses of meds, has remained exactly the same, very bland protein, fiber(slow and easy), very small amounts of starch, and no sugar unless it’s from the banana a day. I am taking a yeast based probiotic. I can’t figure why the stool consistency fluctuates and whether I should be placing any significance on it as a sign of getting better or worse. Would love to know whether what I’m doing is working. It’s frustrating not knowing, and thinking I won’t know until watery D returns.