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Posted 9/20/2010 5:00 PM (GMT 0)
AZYooper, ah, I see what you're meaning...I know it sucks to have to take them everyday in order for it to keep working but to be honest I'm happy to do that and at least have something that helps cuz it sure is miserable when you keep trying all kinds of things and nothing helps...I'll take what ever help I can get, even if it means a life of relying on taking things daily...this disease sucks.
Posted 9/22/2010 8:45 AM (GMT 0)
Anti-biotic does me "against-life".....just saying...
Definite reason to br cautious, although it has saved the lives of many people.
Posted 9/22/2010 5:22 PM (GMT 0)
My experience may be atypical, but here it is anyway.

I’ve been in remission for a year now except for lower left gut pain. The pain was severe enough that my PCP prescribed oxycodone which I used two or three times per week. A few months ago I was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, and was given a week long course of Cipro. After taking the Cipro, the pain went away, and I have not had to take any oxycodone since; and I’m still in remission.

Coincidence? I don’t believe in them.
Posted 9/22/2010 5:59 PM (GMT 0)
Antibiotics are not very popular here because many blame them for starting their UC in the first place. They are probably right. Even those who agree with me that diet helps to maintain remission are probably annoyed when I say antibiotics helped jump start my remission. about 10 days ago haileys letter wrote a beautiful post how antibiotics helped her 15 month old daughter. Not to be right or wrong, she wrote it as an another option available that may help others. For most of us antibiotics are poison for UC. But for a very few of us they work but I would never take them without probiotics.
Posted 9/23/2010 6:36 AM (GMT 0)

BabeintheWoods said...
Antibiotics are not very popular here because many blame them for starting their UC in the first place. They are probably right. Even those who agree with me that diet helps to maintain remission are probably annoyed when I say antibiotics helped jump start my remission. about 10 days ago haileys letter wrote a beautiful post how antibiotics helped her 15 month old daughter. Not to be right or wrong, she wrote it as an another option available that may help others. For most of us antibiotics are poison for UC. But for a very few of us they work but I would never take them without probiotics.

I think it is possible if the antibiotics just happen to kill the bad flora population causing the problem, and at the same time you pound down the probiotics with good flora, I can see where that combo may work.
Posted 9/23/2010 8:36 AM (GMT 0)
Quality also counts. Probiotics don't contain enough strains. The only thing that does is someone else's feces, preferably someone who has never had antibiotics.
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