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Living with High-Risk C-Diff and Preventing Re-Infection

Infectious Diseases | Last Active: Mar 15 12:36pm | Replies (40)
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@jfperrone

I read your comments with interest. I'm Jerry. I have a long history of trying to kill a UTI including hospitalizations, intravenous in rehab and at home etc. I am resistant to most antibiotics but bactrim which at full strength made me sick (off to the ER). Anyway I have been on a low dose of bactrim for months which I seem to tolerate. Anyway now comes C Diff most likely because of the long term use of an antibiotic which killed all the good stuff and allowed C Diff to become an issue. I have been prescribed vancomycin which I haven't taken yet.
Do I understand that you will take vancomycin along with a UTI antibotic at the same time? This seems almost contradictory. Please let me know if my understanding is correct. many thanks

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cas924 | @cas924 | Mar 13 9:47am

I took vancomycin when I was diagnosed. It did take care of the infection, but killed what little good microbiome I had left in my gut. Then I had post infectious IBS, could not eat much and lost ~35 lbs. Discovering the low FODMAP diet helped somewhat. Finally a great doctor recommended taking high potency probiotics (ProBio Med or Visbiome and Florastor) which turned everything around for me within a couple days. If I have to play this horrible game again, I will be taking those probiotics while I take the C Diff antibiotic (separated by 4-6 hours so antibiotic doesn’t kill probiotic).

And I have also heard about taking the vancomycin at the same time as the UTI antibiotic. Some docs will, some won’t.

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