Patients with IBD more likely to die from C-Diff...

pb4

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Posted 10/5/2007 5:57 AM (GMT 0)

Patients with IBD more likely to die from C-Diff.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/83869.php

pb4

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Posted 10/5/2007 6:15 PM (GMT 0)

bump

Sara14

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Posted 10/5/2007 6:46 PM (GMT 0)

Well, that's scary... but, good to know. Thanks for the info.

ks1905

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Posted 10/5/2007 7:10 PM (GMT 0)

I'm a C.Diff Survivor. it was very painful; much worse than a UC flare. And the smell was awful.

One of the easiest ways to get C.diff is by taking Anti-biotics.

--Keith

dakotagirl

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Posted 10/6/2007 12:19 AM (GMT 0)

Um - gulp - yikes!

dakotagirl

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Posted 10/6/2007 12:52 AM (GMT 0)

I got to thinking - I know - scary! - but I wonder if this is true because as IBDers we're "used" to having D, etc and they let the infection progress further than a non-IBDer would???

Paul L

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Posted 10/6/2007 1:53 AM (GMT 0)

Now they tell me. I just got over a case of C. difficile about 1 ½ months ago. I really didn’t feel any different. The only difference was that I went from 8 or 9 BMs per day to 5 or 6 after treatment.

Horus

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Posted 10/6/2007 2:25 PM (GMT 0)

To Paul L,

Could it be that you weren't responding to anything because of the C difficile this whole time?

Paul L

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Posted 10/10/2007 1:27 AM (GMT 0)

Horus, I’m sorry I didn’t reply sooner but we went away for the long weekend. Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day here in Canada.

No I do not think that C. difficile had any effect on me not responding to any treatments. Because I was in two different clinical studies over the last two years I have been tested for C. difficile and other things many many times. about 2 months ago was the first and only time it came back positive. In fact for my current study I am tested just before every treatment. My doctor and I have determined that a round of antibiotics I took for an infection unrelated to UC last May and June was most likely the cause of my C. difficile. At that time I was off all UC meds until I entered the current study a month ago.

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