Intestinal inflammation from abx, what to do?

I've been dealing with gut issues ever since I added in rifampicin to the mono therapy of doxycycline my doc put me on in march or april. He isn't experienced with bartonella treatment. I was fine on doxy, gut-wise, with everything I took to protect my intestines, until we added in rifampicin and oregano oil after two months. The doxy alone only made the bart sleep. I quit rifampicin after one week back then out of fear from the side effects and out of being pretty new and naive to bart treatment and continued on doxy only, then tried to switch to the Buhner protocol on my own and was too overwhelmed with it all by myself because I reacted so strongly. My treatment went on in an inconsistent way until I started to get sharp eye pain, so I decided to add the rifampicin back in a bit more than 20 days ago. My intestinal health gradually got worse, while my eyes got better. I reduced my dosage to make it at least a little easier for my intestines for a while, but my eye pain came back a little, so I went up again. I'm pretty sure I have some inflammation going on in my intestines now. My belly hurts everytime I take the abx or when I eat something. Well, and when I go to the toilet it doesn't look or smell healthy at all. I take so many things for gut health, but nothing helps and I got no doctor I can rely on. I'm scared to quit because I'm pretty sure the bart would come back with vengance, and my eyes would be one of the targets. But I'm also scared of not quitting because of the inflammation and the things it can cause, I'm scared of some particular auto immune conditions. I really don't know what to do now. I try to detox as good as I can and I'm currently looking for a practitioner who can help me switch to herbals only, but it takes time and it doesn't feel like time's on my side right now. I'm feeling so terribly alone and helpless with it atm and am losing hope. Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks so much you guys.

Could it be c diff?

"The first c diff symptoms may include diarrhea and cramping. This might occur up to 15 times a day. Usually however the diarrhea happens between 3-5 times a day. C Diff infection often produces foul smelling stool. This is a distinctive symptom and many medical staff can make an initial diagnosis on smell alone – find out more here. Extreme cases can cause blood in your feces."

https://cdifficile.org/what-are-the-symptoms-of-c-difficile/

Are you taking s. bouillardi (sp) with the other gut health things?

Have you been taking probiotics daily?

“ Girlie, I think you're right, but doesn't it heighten the risk that bart developes abx resistance? Do you pulse them? I'll look into switching to rifabutin, thank you 🙂“

Not if you take a couple other abx with it.
Yes, I pulse them.
I take mino, Rifabutin and ceftin

Girlie, how do you pulse those three? And do you take herbals as well along with them?

Garzie, you might be onto something there with the oregano. Now that you mention it, it does burn in my stomach if I don't drink enough with it (it feels as if it could burn a hole in a wall, which might be helpful for bank robbers haha) though I usually eat and drink with taking my medication so it's easier on my digestive system, but still, that might just be it. I'll give it a break and use cinnamon bark instead. Doxy gave me some nausea when I first started it and stained my teeth, which went away with cleaning, but nothing else, and from the rifampicin my knees hurt at first as well as my kidney area feeling a little sore and an unhappy gut....and yellow teeth 😅

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