Posted 11/17/2013 2:17 PM (GMT 0)
been symptom free for 2 years after last bout of ibs vs ibd (dr didn't know)
started in early september with profuse diarrhea 30x/day and throughout the night. went on for 2 days, and then i realized i started prothera therbiotic 100billion high potency probiotics around the same time. i stopped that, and was 100% within 24 hours
was 100% for 1 week. Then all of sudden, same thing, severe diarrhea after eating a large salad bar at souplantation. normally i don't have problems with that. dr ordered stool samples and ova parasite. everything was negative. but i couldn't wait a week for the sample to come back so i started Cipro. i was back to 100% after only 3 days of cipro (i did finish the 10 day course). so i was pretty sure it was some bug. even though the lab as negative. i started taking some lesser potent probiotics to make sure i don't get c difficile. florastor, and acidophilis. i taking very small dosages, half of what they recommend on the box.
then i was 100% for another week after i finished cipro. then 2 days ago, massive cramps and diarrhea woke me up at 2am and been going diarrhea 30x/day since. went back to see dr. he thinks it may be c difficile. he gave me more antibiotics flagyl. and stool sample for c difficile. but the c difficile lab not back yet, its teh weekend. i'm in so much pain. i stopped all probiotics to see if that the reason again, but it didn't help. so now i'm on flagyl. i'm scared... hear so many recurrent flagyl stories.