← Return to Stool consistency while on vancomycin and its significance

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@wty2020

Thank you, I’m hoping and praying too. So glad you are over the cdiff infection. That’s encouraging, as this has gotten me way down. I feel defeated constantly and often that there is no out. I have never really had health problems before and dealing with this and trying to figure this out has consumed me. Interesting that your stools are not back to normal, but everything I read says it can take up to months maybe even years for that to “return to normal,” and quite a few say they simply acquired a new normal. You have to really be encouraged by the negative test! Would you mind sharing your meds, dose, taper pulse, and your diet during those, including probiotics, and after you finished the meds as well?

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Oh absolutely of course I would share. It took over 20 days for them to diagnose me with c Diff. I was put on vancomycin for 10 days and 4 days later diarrhea came back. My doctor put me on metronidazole for 14 days. Diarrhea was gone but had loose stools formed at times but very very soft and sometimes not even formed but no watery diarrhea. Since then I had some scares when my stool would look weird and smelly got tested for c Diff toxin and came back negative this was two weeks after I finished the metronidazole. I was nauseous for almost 3 months after and had lots of bad days and like you was doing my homework and reading a lot. While I had c Diff i was eating bland food like rice bananas potatoes but heard this is bad. I worked with a nutritionist and was put on a meal plan lots of fibre fruits and she stated me on raw vegetables (but I had cooked vegetables before for almost 3 months before starting raw). I am still not feeling well now I am doing a low FODMAP diet as I heard people can develop ibs post c Diff. Only been a week on this diet so will see. Looks like I cannot eat gluten anymore this is causing me very loose stool so I stopped gluten and read that you can be gluten intolerant after c Diff and I am only eating lactose free dairy just started that. I got tested again for c Diff toxin in December and got negative results. I have lots of anxiety still and fear. My doctor told me c Diff won’t recur at this point unless I go on antibiotics this will put me at high risk for getting it. I am still dealing with the after c Diff and trying to find a new normal. I feel for you guys and what you are going through I myself too healthy otherwise and took antibiotic originally for a sinus infection that led me to c Diff. I am still taking probiotics 60 billion 1 capsule per day. I took Boulardii in addition to probiotic for almost 3 months and stopped the Boulardii and now only probiotics. Please ask away this is the only was we can help each other’s and get some answers.