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C. difficile – Are your guts ever normal again?
Digestive Health | Last Active: Feb 20 9:02pm | Replies (645)Comment receiving replies
...after first 2 weeks of VANCOMYCIN, didnt work, my gp prescribed Dificid - but pharmacy said they didnt have any and couldnt get any... I later found out they could have got some in for me in a week but i didn't know i could wait; it was $2000.00 - no kidding, and pharmacist said to me... oh you dont want to pay that; but I phoned my insurance company and they WOULD have paid.. anyway my husband said we will take money out of savings if it works better, none of Pharmacists business if I paid cash . They say knowledge can be a dangerous thing but I darn well wish I had known more as I believe Difficid works quite well? I feel my bowel is damaged for LIFE. If I were younger and not living in Northern Ontario I would have pursued a fecal transplant but why are they playing this down lately...they were all overjoyed at results now I find hardly anything... Big Pharma wont be able to sell as many antibiotics if we get better with a transplant? I am disillusioned, fed up and dont trust some drs any more and even not some pharmacists! C.Diff is like a hidden illness and no I didn't get it in hospital but from about 6 antibiotics in 5 months for uti that could have been treated differently.... my stupidity!!! Now i have to wallow in fecal incontinence for the rest of my life... yep, feeling sorry for myself today!! Grrrr
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@lacy2 I definitely agree with you! I had the fmt in March, 2019. I was 71 at the time. It definitely saved my life. I most likely wouldn't be alive today. As we all know, big pharma has been running the show for some time. I found it interesting that I couldn't get the fmt until I had 3 relapses! What does that tell you? I wouldn't have had to take all that vancomycin if I could have had the fmt sooner! It has nothing to do with us getting healthy. It's about the "money ", as usual. Disgusting!