FT and more than 1 donor ?

We're trying the FT with our daughter but her donor (14 yo sister) doesn't go everyday.  We've only been able to try it twice with many days in between.  We haven't seen any dramatic difference since we started.     

Would it be okay to have more than one donor ?  I can't find any info. on that.  I guess the other likely person would be me.  I go regularly. Sometimes twice a day.  Normal.    The only thing that concerns me is that I did do a round of antiobiotics about 18 months ago.  Is that a factor ?  Was it long enough ago that it wouldn't upset her system ?

We're seeing a specialist in NYC at the end of the week and we were hoping this FT would have already made a big difference.

Any thoughts ?

 

I had the same situation with my granddaughter. I visited my older daughter only to find out that my granddaughter doesn't go every day. I had limited success as a result. She went only two times. Plus, her BMs were on the hard side. I haven't had any major flareups since then; however, I am still wavering between having good poos and having small and thin poos.

I would break up the BMs as much as possible and use more of it than with a softer BM--maybe three syringe's worth. I had much greater success when my granddaughter was breast feeding and her BMs were a gooey substance. Three treatments, and I was in total remission. Don't worry about having days in between. I would just keep on trying. I would think 10 treatments would be enough to know whether or not the FT worked.

With each added donor they is a risk, just like with becoming intimate with anybody, there are risks of sharing intimate parts. I would continue the FT with the older daughter for the full 10 treatments. After that, if FT does not work, I would look into other alternative treatments or think about another donor, depending on how the FT went. Did it make the younger child's condition any better, worse, or the same? If I saw any sign of an improvement, then I would probably try a second donor.

Post Edited (subdued) : 10/18/2010 3:19:41 PM (GMT-6)

subdued said...
I had the same situation with my granddaughter. I visited my older daughter only to find out that my granddaughter doesn't go every day. I had limited success as a result. She went only two times. Plus, her BMs were on the hard side. I haven't had any major flareups since then; however, I am still wavering between having good poos and having small and thin poos.

I would break up the BMs as much as possible and use more of it than with a softer BM--maybe three syringe's worth. I had much greater success when my granddaughter was breast feeding and her BMs were a gooey substance. Three treatments, and I was in total remission. Don't worry about having days in between. I would just keep on trying. I would think 10 treatments would be enough to know whether or not the FT worked.

With each added donor they is a risk, just like with becoming intimate with anybody, there are risks of sharing intimate parts. I would continue the FT with the older daughter for the full 10 treatments. After that, if FT does not work, I would look into other alternative treatments or think about another donor, depending on how the FT went. Did it make the younger child's condition any better, worse, or the same? If I saw any sign of an improvement, then I would probably try a second donor.

Thank you for your response.

Actually, my daughter did say just last night that she thought the FT's were working.  I was referring to the fact that she is still in pain and occasionally has alot of cramping.  But, oddly enough, her poop is beginning to look like her donors !  Not kidding.  It also doesn't blowup or fall apart when I flush it.  (I made her show me her poop everyday).  LOL !!  Before it was straight up diarrhea and then we started doing psyllium and it began bulking it up really nicely.  But when we flushed the poop would sort of blow up when flushed.  Now it doesn't do that.  It's solid !

The last two times I had a real hard time breaking up the poop to put it in the enema.  But if it's working I'll forge on and get better at it.

Thanks again!