Your situation is a lot more complicated than mine. I got a broad-spectrum anabiotic in 1993 for a sinus infection. I didn’t realize until I was in the emergency room on Thanksgiving night that the diarrhea was an infection. I didn’t lose my colon and I didn’t die. Back then the infection was not as hyper virulent as the current version. It did take seven months to resolve on vancomycin though, and I had to leave law school for a term to lower my stress. In 1994 I didn’t know how vulnerable I was and I was routinely given antibiotics for various infections. I also used ibuprofen as a painkiller, and at one time took an SSRI antidepressant. I didn’t realize until recently that those were damaging. I was also kind of hooked on diet soda. That’s bad for the Microbiome. I contracted a hypervigilant version of CDI when my husband was in the hospital for end-of-life care. They put him in a room where someone had this infection and at that time I didn’t realize that hand sanitizer wouldn’t kill it and that it was some thing you ingested. I brought a sandwich to encourage my husband to eat. And then I had a much more complicated problem. It didn’t resolve for 14 months and I ended up doing a lot of research online for methods for a resolving this. I found a doctor after listening to a panel discussion on this infection on a website called contagion live. They were talking about treatment options, including FMT. A new infusion called bezlotoxumab was getting good results. It is made by Merck pharmaceuticals and it is called Zinplava. It worked for me. It took a long time for the IBS to go away, but it did. I told the endodontist that I could not take antibiotics so he did not prescribe them. He prescribed ibuprofen and a low-dose steroid to reduce swelling. They both worked well, but they suppressed my immune system. So I set up another infusion after recovering on Dificid which resolved my symptoms and gave my microbiome several weeks to recover. I stopped the Dificid after the infusion and except for a little scare, the infusion is holding up. It’s fully active for 19 days and then fades. It does what Dificid does, cripples toxin B. It doesn’t rebuild the immune system. So I’m working on that with probiotics, a vegetable intensive diet, no artificial anything, no pain killers. I just found a doctor in Chicago who is researching microbiome rebuilding. Also a new vaccine is in stage 2 clinical trials for CDI. And rather than FMT, there are trials of propagating, good bacteria outside of the human micro biome. They extract and isolate the good bacteria and then replicate it. So what you get aren’t the bad habits/lifestyle of an impoverished FMT donor, you just get the good bacteria in as diverse a colony as they can provide. I’m interested in that as a treatment option and sign me up for the vaccination. I am a very healthy person except for this infection. I am almost 70. I was overweight, but decided to fix that by starting a walking program. It worked. I joined a nice gym and work out with a personal trainer twice a week. I can do 20 push-ups and dead lift 100 pounds. I cycle, swim, hike and play endless hours of pickleball, usually without injury. After reading your challenges, I know my life is truly blessed, and I will pray for you. Hang in there. The human body is pretty amazing. Do you have 100% got this