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Posted 5/3/2013 12:07 PM (GMT 0)
Is it common for people with IBD to get campylobacter?

I contracted it I guess because my immune system was suppressed with meds. Going on Zpack today. What is so weird is that my bowels are not moving at all. This is supposeto cause diarrhea. Anyway I feel so sick, fever,headache just feel bad. Having an MRI today to elimante the possibility of Crohns instea of UC since my prep (which I did for three whole days) did not work for the colonoscopy. You know this thing has just snowballed since I got diagnoised with IBD I am getting so tired of being sick. I'm tired of drinking awful crap which I get to do today. Sorry to complain so much I know most of you have great attitudes and try to be positive most of the time it's just gotten to be too much lately. Praying for remission :-)

Posted 5/4/2013 11:40 PM (GMT 0)
Campy is foodborne so you have to be careful like always with raw chicken and other raw meats and foods. It's reportable to public health in my state.

It's not fun but very curable so that's the good news.

Ya, I would think that fewer of the bacteria could cause problems in a person with UC compared to someone with a normal gut.

The absence of D is a bit different. Hang in there and soon you'll have one less thing to deal with. How did they find it?

Posted 5/5/2013 1:03 PM (GMT 0)
Oh no!!!!! I just got over the same thing and was in hospital for a week because of this. Nothing but bloody diarrhea and going 20 times a day. I didn’t run a fever though and as soon as they gave me antibiotics the blood started going. The doctors told me to give up sugary stuff until the bacteria was gone (I was on low carb anyway so it did not matter for me), but this will help the antibiotic to work. Have they given you any??
Posted 5/5/2013 1:05 PM (GMT 0)
I started to introduce more into my diet now.. but am on pred still because of this..
Posted 5/5/2013 9:17 PM (GMT 0)
they found the campy through a stool sample. I am grateful that my new gastro was so thorough. They put me on zithromax. It is also reportable in my state. I got a call from the health department before my doctor even called. It kind of freaked me out. I think the constant flow that was coming out of my rectum may have been from the infection because it stopped now and the bleeding has stopped. I was so sick with the flare that I didn't even realize I had an infection. I am glad I did not end up in the hospital with it. Noone else around me got it thank God.
Posted 5/6/2013 9:04 AM (GMT 0)
This is weird to say but I am kind of glad I got it. I was having bloody mucus since Christmas and I was using the rectal drugs but I seemed to be fighting with them and still having blood. I had blood in January with a cold then blood before I went to a away weekend with my friends at work. Then I got this and was having bloody BM’s 20 times and got dehydrated. I went to the hospital and they gave me steroid injections, which helped a bit but the bleeding was still there, they then gave me intravenous antibiotics and the blood started going. I stayed on oral antibiotics for two weeks and I have not had blood or mucus since. I am still on prednisone so that may be why, but I feel better than I have in a long time, with no blood or mucus. The antibiotic that they used was called Erthromycin, I love it, it really helped with the remission.

I would have been a lot sicker if I had not been doing the diet, which is interesting. They said not to eat sugars because they were tying to kill it with the antibiotic. I told them about the low carb diet I was doing and the doctors said the diet can keep Ulcerative Colitis down because your body does not know how to deal with certain bacteria’s and will over respond if it has one it does not like. That is why the diet works to some extent. So they said…
Posted 5/6/2013 10:41 AM (GMT 0)
yep my blood and moucus is gone and I do feel better. What is interesting is that when I was first diagnoised I had a UTI an was treated with an antiobotic and my symptoms really improved for a while. I have read that sometimes doctos treat UC with antibiotics. I have always felt better on antibiotics even when I was twenty years old ( a lot older now)
Posted 5/6/2013 10:56 AM (GMT 0)
The doctors told me a lot of people who have UC feel better after being treated with antibiotics. I wish they would put more research into bacteria’s and UC. I don’t know what is the cause of mine but all I know is that the diet worked to hold it back, the rectum did not respond but the rest of me did. (Strange) and when I got this food poisoning the bleeding stopped with the antibiotics. At least you feel better, I hope you stay in remission.
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