When to Suspect Diarrhea is Symptom of a Clostridium Difficile Infection

[@F_locqueen]

I was taking an antibiotic for my strep throat ( cephalexin ). It said on the bottle that after use of the drug I would have diarrhea, it didn’t say that I’d be in excruciating pain for a week and some change.... I suffered from severe cramps and diarrhea. I used the bathroom more than 6 times a day, I could hardly sleep and I felt hopeless! Step that helped me get better: -probiotic yogurt twice daily - rice - bread - probiotic pills ( once a day with a meal ) - fatty foods make it worse - patients and prayer I did this for about two days and found relief! I hope this helps someone 🖤

[@nunezricky109]

I took the antibiotic for an infected bug bite. It's been about a week and I'm suffering. This is hell 😫

[@evevaccaro4535]

@@nunezricky109 I’m taking it now for past week and I have been living in the bathroom never again

[@joela6895]

I did the yogurt and immediately felt better but was still hurting so I continue with probiotics. They were hell for a few days but felt so much better

[@margaretgillham7737]

I was taking my daughter in laws mum to doctors and ended up taking her to A&E because wasn't getting anywhere with her gp. really bad diarrhoea for weeks & weight loss the smell was shocking. She was getting weaker by the day. She was diagnosed with c diff & sadly passed away. I feel if she had been diagnosed weeks & weeks before she would still be with us today 😥😥😥

[@genrottluff1084]

I am in this same position with my mother at this moment, I doubt she has 2 weeks.

[@PendeltonWhiskey]

@@genrottluff1084 Did your mother recover? I hope so

[@genrottluff1084]

@@PendeltonWhiskey no unfortunately, she passed away, it was just too much for her

[@angelicbaby92]

I tested positive for c diff in 2020. Well everyone was worried about the pandemic, I was worried about my severe hearing loss, vomiting, and infections. I still suffer with the issues today. I simply got used to it and I take a lot of medications and talk to my doctor every month or so. It came back at least four times. I've had two surgeries for fecal transplants and I think it's coming back again. I still feel sick. I got so depressed in 2018 to 2020 that I wanted to die and I think that severely affected my immune system. My entire body just collapsed and I'm still dealing with the consequences of not caring for myself during that time. Now I have a fiance, and a future I want to fight for but I can't get a break yet.

[@thebayareastandout]

Hearing loss? I haven't heard about that symptom. I just had c diff for the first time after taking antibiotics and got out of the hospital about a week in a half ago.

[@reneehouser2925]

FLORAGEN is over the counter but you have to ask the pharmacist to get it from the refrigerator. World's best probiotic will solve your problems for $25-30 for 30 pills/ two- 2 week courses of 1/day.

[@helenrogers5569]

I disagree in regards with the amount of loose stools. I didn't have that many. Yet I had severe cramping, the obvious stool, fever, low blood pressure, increased pulse, etc......... . We nurses have seen it enough!! Let us help in deciding. Seriously!!!!!

[@Dream.Weaver.]

I agree with you completely!

[@Umar-ue7hy]

​@@ashlynbaillie231floaty stools or greassy?

[@amandawhitis8788]

I was prescribed clarithromycin for a 12 year old root canal extraction Aug 9, started those antibiotics two days prior (aug 7), after those 10 days, had loose stools ever since, more like butt piss than anything, I even took probiotics daily. Then i had symptoms of bashful bowels when I just couldn’t control any type of clinch. I tried! I would run to the bathroom 11-12 times in 8 hours. Even if I drank water bc the yellowish mucus would still be comming out. I felt tired, I kept headaches, ibprophen would even take the edge off my headache, I found myself sleeping on a ice pack. Then this nurse told me I was dehydrated and suggested pedialyte. After 30 mins of downing half a bottle my headache was non existent. I have a stool sample that is being sent for testing but in the meantime, I was prescribed yet again, another antibiotic, this time it is metronidazole. I just want to go back to how things were. I took a good poop for granted 😭

[@ShaferScott]

Any news on your stool sample? Still having runny poops?

[@amandawhitis8788]

I hate that this was a month ago and I’m just now seeing this!! Yes, I did have c-Diff. It was a very mild case and as soon as the nurse came in she could smell the poop sample. She said ALL cdiff has the same smell and very distinctive. She sent it off and within 2 days I got a call confirming that it was. After taking The second dose of antibiotics by the 3 rd day I had solid bowel movement and I have been fine ever since. I still take plant based probiotics that is 45 billion strains. The current probiotics I was taking was only 25 billion and It wasn’t enough. I was also eating 2 Activia yogurts every single day. Now I’m down to 2 activia a week.

[@teslaandhumanity7383]

My dog avoids me now since I had diarrhoea been a month now

[@helenrogers5569]

If I wasn't a nurse and insisted on being tested, I would dead. Feel like I am close now. Who does the doctor have traigeing patients???? A medical assistant!!! She didn't want to listen. Time to put nurses back in the office!!!!!

[@tiffanylgarcia78]

For 2 weeks the Drs in the er kept telling me that there's nothing wrong with me. That I should talk to a therapist and that! But I kept going back because I was suffering and I knew there was something wrong with me. After 2 weeks of saying it's all in my head.... I finally got an answer. CDIFF. And that's only because I refused to let them tell me that I was crazy! Now I'm having to go get checked throughly to see how extensive the damage is because the didn't believe me.

[@bettyjean6066]

@@tiffanylgarcia78 That's the same thing they were doing to me. Kept sending me home. Telling me I was depressed. I feel for you cause they did the same thing to me 🙏

[@AzazelsWings]

@@tiffanylgarcia78 it's really sad and appalling at the same time, especially considering the cost of ER visits. I'm in the Portland area and meth use/drug addiction is rampant here, you can't go to an Emergency room here, all you will get is sideways looks and if you're in pain they automatically assume you must be there to get drugs. I was at home in pain so bad, I could not walk, sitting on all fours, just crying. I wished I could just die. I delt with this in varying severity for over 4 years (!) Husband took me to the ER twice and I was treated like a drug fiend making up lies. I suffered for years and it wrecked my daily life, but I would rather have died then ever going back to the ER... I was eventually diagnosed with stage 4 Endometriosis... so although not the same as what happened to you, I can understand what you suffered. I'm very sorry for what happened to you. Much love.

[@xXxSapphir3xXx]

​@@MATT-ij6wo "could have" doesn't win lawsuits. You have to have actual damages you can prove.

[@PendeltonWhiskey]

My son is finally recovering from C. Diff. We think he's been suffering from it for about 18 months. I took him to the ER TEN TIMES before they finally did a stool sample test and found that he had both C. Diff AND norovirus. After we had been to the ER six times over about a 14 month period, he was fine for about six weeks and then all hell broke loose. He couldn't stop vomiting. They put him on an IV drip for a couple of hours and it calmed him down and they sent us home. We didn't get all the way home (10 minute trip) before he started throwing up again. This continued all night and I took him back to the ER again in the early morning. Same treatment and back home. Started throwing up again and back to the ER. The staff in the ER became increasingly hostile. They made hm sit in the ER waiting room throwing up while the hours ticked by. As my son sat there throwing up I watched people walk in who didn't appear to have anything close to the level of suffering that my son had walk in, get treated and walk back out while my son sat there throwing up. I called into the ER and told them that my son was on the verge of passing out. Finally when the waiting room was completely empty they saw him. By that time his potassium level was so low he was in danger so he was finally admitted to the acute care ward where a stool sample was taken and the C. Diff and Norovirus was discovered. He nearly died. He's on very strong antibiotics now and feeling much better. As soon as he's done with the antibiotics he's going to be eating probiotics like crazy. I'm thinking about writing a letter to the hospital administrator although I knew the last hospital administrator personally and he was a clown. I hope the new one is better.

[@bryanp8010]

Mine never had an odor at all. Never on antibiotics, never even had pain or fever. I had pain after dr put me on vanco. Just finished dificit and still have pain. Only original symptom was diarrhea 3x per day. My dr did poop test and started me on vanco right away. I don’t think he knows what he’s doing

[@brendand8794]

what action would you take for a patient with r-cdi who again tested positive 3 weeks after finishing 10d dificid but is not experiencing diahrea? just wait it out or would you put them on a vanco/dif taper pulse?

[@amandawhitis8788]

I don’t know why I can’t post my experience but I know it could help someone, I tried posted it twice and it’s non existent

[@Jay-ef2ii]

Where Can I sign up to be a candidate for an FMT? May 21, 2022, Saturday. USA North America.

[@MATT-ij6wo]

Your doctor has to make the arrangements for an emergency FMT treatment.

[@atheistaetherist2747]

I aint a doc, but, i am carnivore, i eat zero carbs (except for praps a little in meat & cream), hence the flora etc in my lower bowel aint very important for me.

[@woomydayz]

I hate my C-diff lol

[@zulok1337]

c. diff sucks.

[@brianbaldino3496]

Who would want to be a Poo Doctor?

[@rockanderson1823]

Feces is mostly water, dead and live bacteria, and undigested food. Brown color comes from dead red blood cells. If you protect yourself from the bacteria, you're good to go. When you need a "Poo Doctor", you'll be glad they are there to help.

[@cmvamerica9011]

That sh!t stank.