I hope this sees everyone on this thread.

I’m looking for advice for my 2 year old daughter who has been battling c diff for over a year. She has had 5 episodes of c diff, one Fecal transplant and now on the 6th episode of GDH positive but negative toxins. Her doctor believes she is showing symptoms to the c diff bacteria not necessarily from the toxins so he wanted to treat with vanco again to try killing off the remainder of the c diff. She has had 6 surgeries in her lifetime and only 1 during her c diff battle. We believe she started having c diff infections from all of her hospital stays/surgeries. She also has a colostomy. My questions are, does anyone on here have a colostomy AND c diff issues? If so, what are the stool patterns like? And for everyone who reads this, what are your success stories? How many reoccurrence episodes did it take for you to fully recover from c diff? We have always been on vancomycin-started off with just a 14 day course then as the episodes went on we started to treat with longer tapers after the initial 14 days of full dose. With our last taper lasting 5months long! Our new GI is looking at trying fidaxomycin once the pharmacy gets it in stock and to stop the vancomycin we’re currently on now. I also should add we’re on florastor daily. My daughter usually has pudding to peanut butter thick stool. Does anyone know if vancomycin can cause thicker stools as a side effect? Or is the thicker stool just from the c diff being killed off? Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thank you in advance!