Has anyone experienced complete remission after Antibiotic treatment?

bearmama said...

The doctor is going to precede the FT with triple abx therapy. Fingers crossed.

Best of luck to you. Glad to see there are some open minded physicians out there. There is hope for us yet! There are many of us here that would love to have FT done by a physician, but it is not available to us.

Keep us posted on the results.

Post Edited (C_G_K) : 7/16/2012 4:11:04 PM (GMT-6)

Twice now, I have gone into full remission with Cipro/Flagyl. For myself, it lasts seven months exactly. Then I go back on them. Very strange how it lasts exactly seven months.

Hello,
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but i also have the same occurrence and would just like to share. A few years ago i was flaring quite bad and landed myself into hospital with iron infusions and electrolyte drips. But i also was diagnosed with a type of blood infection (my skeletal muscles where stiffening up and hurt every time i moved quite badly), so i was placed on 1 month of amoxicillin my symptoms disappeared i was on a heavy dose of steroids at the time (i think around 40mg of pred.) but while i was taking the antibiotic i could just stop the steroid completely as well any other medications. I could eat whatever i wanted and experimented with certain foods such as chips, foods with cheese such as kebabs and pizza no symptoms at all, stools 100% normal. After completing the amoxicillin about 2 months symptoms slowly returned. I have been on antibiotics once more after this due to another infection and the same thing occurred (i was on antibiotics for 2 weeks) but was symptom free for a shorter period of time.
Another time i was at a party and i was with some friends and decided to do vodka shots, my symptoms again disappeared for about 4 days ( i thought i would for sure flare up i was surprised).

Plz. note that even though symptoms disappeared that the next flare up would be always worse than the one before it.

It lead me to assume there was a microbial diversity problem where there could possibly be 1 dominate strain, and antibiotics would reduce the number of this strain (relieving symptoms) but also the rest of the population. This meant that when this dominate strain began to multiply again (which would be at a greater rate) it would become more dominate due to decreased number of rest of population (slower rate of growth). this would mean worse symptoms.
Thanks
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Diagnosed at 19yrs. (first flared during exam period when i was stressed and had some personal problems)- probably stress triggered it but i think i was neglecting my body from healthy foods and lifestyle for a number of yrs.
2011-2015
Pred. 25mg (could never go below 10mg without flaring)
4 X Mezevant
120mg Imuran
Was about to start infliximab, just thought i've had enough of this,
3 months everyday Fecal matter transplant
2 months 3 days a week
1 month 1 day a week
High fibre diet (brown rice+porridge)
Kefir, sauerkraut, Kombucha, heavy dose of probiotics, vitamin D+Calcium+Magnesium
And yes remission!!! no meds 2016-present

Post Edited (Tab778) : 6/19/2017 7:47:54 PM (GMT-6)

hello Canaveral,

If it clears the symptoms up within 24 hours of taking the antibiotic it can be obviously be assumed that symptoms are caused by some sought of infection.
If i was you i would possibly look at a new donor for the fecal matter transplant. A fecal matter transplant does have anti-microbial properties where some bacteria diversities act against the C. Diff infection and any other rogue bacteria infections. I know when i did my FMT i responded within 30 minutes i felt my body wasn't attacking itself anymore straight away (like my body was at piece with itself). But i did have to go through 1 donor before finding one that worked.But if your confident it would have no effect, try a stool culture test (trying to look for possible bacteria problems e.g not normal types or uneven population of bacteria, (I still have to do one i think its the $500 cost for a 23yr. old thats holding me back haha).
The other thing i suggest to try is a anti-parasite cleanse. It could explain why the fecal matter transplant isn't effective.
Parasites can be intracellular which means they can invade cells that line your GI tract causing infection and destroying the lining. Some people have had some success on here:
https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=2785600
I know personally my stool always becomes formed when i do a parasite cleanse. It also has very narrow spectrum anti-microbial properties (through cloves and black walnut) so is it working against the parasite or working against some microbe infection who knows.
You could try heavy doses of probiotics and cultured foods but if a fecal matter transplant didn't work then i don't really expect it to have much effect.
Its sucks cause at the moment there is not much research towards bacteria in the body even though there is 9:1 ratio of bacteria to cells.

But never give up, keep researching have a positive mind and anything is achievable