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Transplant; C diff from antibiotics (Doxycycline)
Transplants | Last Active: Jul 19, 2023 | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
@hello1234, I hope that you are feeling better by the time you get this. I have not had any experience with C-diff, so I am really happy that @gingerw and @kandidubrall have shared from their experience.
As I read your situation, it sounds like the nurse changed your medications. Was your skin doctor aware of your transplant and immunosuppressed status? Did the doctor approve this particular medication change? In my experience, health providers who are not familiar with transplant patient's needs, don't always make the best choices for us! Some want to be alerted and reminded; others don't care (I had one of those once). I make it a practice of always asking the attending doctor what is being prescribed, and if it is compatible with my transplant medications, and then , like @kandidubrall, I check it out.
Is your surgery healing ? Is the redness going away?
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My husband had a bone marrow transplant in February and just recently got graph vs host disease and at the same time got cdiff. So he not only had to worry about his elevated liver enzymes so was started on steroids but cdiff doesn’t like steroids so he was started on prednisone and currently weaning off and then at the same time he is taking vancomycin for the cdiff and will be taking it for awhile. We haven’t been told anything about future antibiotics but we aren’t there yet. But yes my pharmacy knows of his transplant and he is only being seen still by the bone marrow clinic doctors.
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@rosemarya I recently had cataract surgery. The surgeon directed me to use three different eyedrops, which I chose to have compounded into one drop. But, I also made sure I cleared it all with my oncologist to make sure there wouldn't be any negative interaction. I realize transplants and blood cancer are two vastly different animals, but anyone with immune system issues need to be aware of drug interactions! By the way I was told there was no problem.
Ginger