It's back. Who's been cured with one Vanco pulse/taper?

Please limit your post to questions only. You can ask multiple questions in the post. (One post per person per day about yourself. See exception in General C. diff.Discussion.)
sammyp
Contributor
Posts: 90
Joined: Thu May 24, 2018 2:08 pm

It's back. Who's been cured with one Vanco pulse/taper?

Postby sammyp » Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:33 pm

Well, two weeks off my 14 days of Vanco, it's back.

My ID doc has me pulse/tapering Vanco now over 10 weeks. Everything I've read says that once you've recurred once, you're more likely to recur again. I guess I'm just looking for a little hope. Has anyone been cured after one pulse/taper round of Vanco?

beth22
Long Time Contributor
Posts: 10852
Joined: Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:23 pm

Re: It's back. Who's been cured with one Vanco pulse/taper?

Postby beth22 » Sat Jun 16, 2018 1:34 am

Some posters have. There is no way to tell if it will work or not, but the majority of people are cured with one or two rounds of medication. The ones who post on sites such as ours are the ones who aren't usually.

roy
Administrator
Posts: 4193
Joined: Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:05 am

Re: It's back. Who's been cured with one Vanco pulse/taper?

Postby roy » Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:35 am

After the first round of meds around 2 in 10 will relapse.
Treat 10 relapsers for a second time and 4 of them will go on to relapse again.
Those figures were from the days of using flagyl as the first treatment so should improve slightly now.

Dificid has a much lower relapse rate.


Return to “Questions about Clostridium difficile”



Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 23 guests