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DiscussionStool consistency while on vancomycin and its significance
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On Friday l completely go off vanco, fingers crossed. It's been like 1 good day one bad day but gotta try with diet and probiotics before anything else. Thank god l don't have to go to work everyday
Hi mhi, thanks for asking. Same. Challenging trying to stay up and not live bowel movement to bowel movement, but I don’t know what else on which to gauge my progress or lack thereof. My stools still are consistently very very loose, about a half a step or step better than diarrhea and a couple steps better than watery diarrhea. Everyone says don’t worry about stools til you get to watery diarrhea. All confusing because in the middle of my 14 day course of vancomycin a couple weeks ago I was having formed small to medium small stools. I thought I was cured. With the exception of a day or two, I got the same thing during the first two weeks of my taper, then they loosened up and have steadily gotten looser over the past week. I’m on a pulse now, and they are loose. And I just saw that I’ve lost another 14 lbs since Christmas. Sorry, I guess this conversation is getting negative quickly.