Stool consistency while on vancomycin and its significance

Hope you will get better after Vancomycin. You won’t know until you are done the antibiotic. My stool is still loose now formed but loose and looser at times even 5 months after finishing antibiotic and testing negative for c Diff toxin. This will take time to regulate.

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We seem to be in the same boat.l've also eliminated sugar and saturated fats. Take ginger for the nausea. It seems to help. No alcohol but do have a joint every other day just for anxiety as l find stress is not good. Lots of fruit and cooked veggies. Take Florastor for probiotic but there's no proof that probiotics really do any good.l had complications with UTI's and more antibiotics. That has prolonged the C Diff. Just want my life back and some strength in my body

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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.

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I've tried do many things over 7 months and still don't feel great. Looking for miracles

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I agree re stress not being good, especially with this disease. I think a moderator (Roy?) posted an article (I have read so many threads I can’t tell you whether it was recent or not) on the connection between gut and brain. I am trying to find it to read it, but I suspect it’s consistent with what I’m being told now, which is stress is not just manifested in loose stools ( which we’ve all probably experienced pre cdiff), but also in negatively affecting the gut microbiome, allowing bad bacteria to grow. Whereas the opposite (no stress, even euphoria) has the opposite effect. Don’t know if science supports it, I’m not a half full guy, so this going to take some hard work on my part.

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Thank you! There is a lot of info in your msg, and the similarities as well as the differences are helpful. Similar in that it took 3 weeks for me to figure out I had cdiff, that I had vanco first and metronidazole second, and eating a very bland diet during it all. Different in that you were cured after metronidazole, and I’m on my third round (2nd vanco). Similar in that I hired a dietitian a few days ago familiar with cdiff who has me eating veggies with fiber both soluble and insoluble but slowly increasing the soluble, little to no fat, protein (primarily chicken/turkey breast, salmon, very lean red meat (tho, I haven’t tried that yet), slowly introducing fruits, all while watching stools to see if there is a difference. Water or Smart Water, but no milk, tho i do have Almond milk once in awhile, and I’ve stopped cheese, which I ate a lot of during first two courses of meds. All my veggies are steamed or roasted very well done(easily mushed). And I just started raw cucumbers without the skin. I am starting sauerkraut but just a tablespoon a day to see how it affects me. I might try kefir and miso next week if things go well. Did you use the nutritionist while you had cdiff or after? Did you use sachromyces Boulardi or a bacteria based probiotic while you took both medicines?

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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.

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