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C. difficile – Are your guts ever normal again?

Digestive Health | Last Active: Jul 15 5:56pm | Replies (646)

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@pixie1960

May I ask any of you who had a successful FMT, was it by Pill form or Colonoscopy? I was Hospitalized (in Nov/Dec 2020) for 16 days with C-Diff, and have taken the FMT Pills 3 times since to no avail. Just getting over another episode of C-diff currently.
My Infectious Disease Doc wants me to have an FMT via Colonoscopy Route. My Gastro Dr says he doesn't do this. So I was referred to another Gastro Dr and I was contacted by Phone by his office to Register to have it done. I told them at the time I wished to think it over first. I did a few days, and talked to my Infectious Disease Dr before Scheduling this. He highly recommended I have it done, as I have had C-diff over 10 times total. So I contaced the New Gastro Dr office again to try to Schedule the FMT and they said I had refused to have it done so they needed another Referral. I contacted my Inf Disease Dr office and they Resent the Referral 10 days ago. No contact to this point.
Back to my original Question now. Is it worth it to have a Colonoscopy FMT? I am really worn out by this disease. Thanks for your time in reading/responding to my situation.

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@pixie1960 I had cdiff 4 years ago. Was hospitalized for 8 days. Was put on medication 4 times over 6 months and then was offered the fmt via colonoscopy. I truly believe it saved my life! Although I have never been able to gain back the weight (14 lbs), I have been okay. It was the best decision for me. I was never even told about the pills. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Good luck!