I have c diff

Posted by rrf67 @rrf67, Jul 24, 2022

I have recently been diagnosed with c diff. I am currently on vancomycin 125mg four times a day. I have been bleeding for over 2 months now regularly with no solid movements whatsoever. I have urgency in the mornings and have to run to the bathroom only to be issues of blood and coffee ground feces, nothing ever solid. I just had a colonoscopy last Monday if showed diverticulum in the transverse colon and inflammation in the sigmoid colon in four different places. my question is when will I get better?? I have been dealing with this for a long time and it is debilitating. Will the vancomycin give me solid movements and will it stop the blood issues?? I just need to talk to someone who can identify with what I have. I have to call my gastro at the end of the week to let her know how I am doing. if I still have this what will be the next step?? Also, has anyone else with c diff smell an odor on themselves and when they go?? does c diff have a distinctive odor?

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bcstrong | @bcstrong | Feb 20, 2025

In reply to @bcstrong "I had surgery 6 weeks ago was put on clindamycin for preventative purposes, 2 weeks later..." + (show)

Yes..its true formed bowel movements are not a problem.

I'm just worried as my stools are beginning to be loosely formed 2 to 3 times a day after completing vanco.for 10 days.
While I was taking it my stools were more formed and only once a day.
Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions
And it's just my gut trying to heal.
I did have a good response to vanco. Idk
Just looking for some support.
Thank you all for your responses!!

chrismkc | @chrismkc | Jul 10 7:31am

I have had cdiff off and on for a few months, some good days, some bad days. I finished a second round of a second antibiotic 2 weeks ago, am on visbiome and for the most part am able to expand my diet to include more things, tolerating them well, staying in my system longer and most days feel less weak. Still no fried food or acidic foods. ( starting coffee some mornings again). My BMs are still not normal but are more formed than they were. My question is, I think my gastroenterologist would approve me to do the spore therapy if I really needed it but is it best to avoid it? Or would it build my biome even stronger to fight the bad bacteria? Or should I not do it as the recovery seems to be slow but improving? Thank you for any advice!

shellyv | @shellyv | Jul 17 2:29pm

In reply to @chrismkc "I have had cdiff off and on for a few months, some good days, some bad..." + (show)

@chrismkc i’ve been suffering from CDF after effects for nine years now. It seems like the C-dif ate my stomach apart. I am in so much pain daily that my doctor put me on pain medication, thankfully. I had to have a fecal transplant because I could not stop the diarrhea after so many antibiotics. The transplant did work for me. The antibiotic I got the sea gift from was Augmentin. I would tell people to never take that antibiotic. I know several people that have got the CDF from that antibiotic that I antibiotics should be taken off the market. It is in my doctor reports that I can never take antibiotics again because if I did, I would probably get the CDF back. The reason I got the CDF was from taking too many antibiotics for UTIs if I had known then that you could get CDF from that I would’ve never taken the antibiotics. I had never heard of CDF until I got it. I think doctors should inform people about it before they continually give patients antibiotics.

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