Toxic megacolon

Perhaps, perhaps, but I have my own views of hospitals. You go there with a problem, you come out with 2 problems.

Unless you have a broken leg, they can't do nothing for you. And if you have heart problems then you go to really specialised places, heart institute.

You go to general hospital you can catch the Alphabet soup there.

I had c diff five years ago. I'm not sure you would say I had it at the same time as a flare...I'd been symptom free for several years before that episode. We thought it was a regular (but terrible) UC flare at first and it took over a month for the c diff to be diagnosed. My symptoms did start slowly for the first week or so, so maybe I started to flare right before I got it, but that seems like a pretty crazy coincidence to me.

I was actually thrilled when I got the news, but if I'd known as much about it as I do now, I might not have been. But it gave an explanation for why I was so so sick. Once I started on the Vancomycin I was back to normal within a few days (except for being a bag of bones from all the weight loss).

I hope you have a similar recovery! I've never relapsed and have been tested for it several times since then (pretty much every time I show any UC symptoms). Get well soon!

Wow, that explains your horrid pain. Wishing you a very speedy recovery....hope you're on the mend real soon.

Fecal transplant an option?

The impaction is still there, I'm not out of the woods yet. I feel like I'm the patient in a Dr. House episode!

What are they doing for you regarding nutrition? orally or IV?

Scary about the House comment....hope this crises gets resolved soon.

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I dunno if the c. diff diagnosis is good or bad news. I mean 'good' only in the sense of it not being toxic megacolon and sparing your colon. I was always terrified of getting c.diff in hospital, but they tested my stools about a zillion times over, particularly during the first stay where they suspected gastroenteritis or a bacterial infection rather than an IBD flare-up. I washed my hands a zillion times over as well, so that they were cracked and raw by the end of every hospital stay.

I dunno if it was that, or I was just lucky, or my hospital was clean, but I never did get c.diff during any of my five or so hospital stays (lasting about a week on average).

Okay, I gotta rush >_>. BeatUC wishing you the best of luck: I hope the impaction goes soon!

From what I understand a lot of normal people may have c-diff already but their good bacterias keep it in check. You take an antibiotic for something, it kills off some of your good bacteria, and poof - you've got c-diff.

Ugg... these are always the worst posts to read... Anyone suffering first with UC and then adding on C-diff.. it's to much and, well, just not fair.

I do hope you feel better soon or at least see some improvement. I'm sure even a minor change to the positive would be more than welcome.

Here is something to look into and watch depending on how things go for you (and for others as well). The University down the road a few minutes from me has developed a synthetic version of fecal transplants... It's worth a read through this short article to help understand the difference between this and "real" poop fecal transplants www.uoguelph.ca/news/pdf/MedicalPostrePOOPulate.pdf and this article is worth the read all the way though as well www2.macleans.ca/2013/07/08/gut-of-the-matter/

Anyway do feel better soon and consider looking into the above at some point if you can't find improvement.

This is the most painful thing I've ever had to endure.
But my GI doc says that the flagyl will clear it up soon and it will be gone.
Now the challenge is coming down off a massive dose of pred while trying to get this flare under control. THis is very scary and will change my life for sure.

There's only one thing worse than having UC and that is having something else on top of UC. That really isn't fair at all. One bad thing is enough.

Slight improvement, I may be turning the corner. Yes, I will be on flagyl for awhile, I just hope it does the trick.
Thanks for all your good thoughts, very much appreciated.