NEWLY DIAGNOSED AND WONDERING
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:48 pm
Hey everyone,
I’m so happy to have found this place since I have just been diagnosed last week, and i tend to be the anxious type.
I am a 21 year old man, For the past month and a half I have had an odd discomfort in my abdominal region (lower slightly towards the left side) and then two weeks ago I started having consecutive loose stools for days, i would wake up feeling absolutely nauseous, white tongue, gas, and no appetite, with vomiting if I dare tried to eat to the point where I stopped going to work for a week. At first I thought it was an STI, but after a test I came back negative. I went to the walk in clinic and was told it was probably a stomach flu, or gastroenteritis, so I was prescribed pantoprazole, didn’t help anything. Two days ago, after a day or two of more formed stools, I woke up early to strong watery stools, at this point i had lost weight and I was taken to the ER by my parents and diagnosed with C. difficile.
I am wondering where I had gotten this though, I had not been to a hospital for a few months, other than my physicians office once and the one walk in clinic, which I didn’t use the washroom or touch anything specifically. I also haven’t been on antibiotics for a bit under a year. That still confuses me in my various googles.
I was prescribed metronidazole, which in my read of the forums seems to be the worst of the three I should take, I am having light abdominal cramps in different areas now two days into it, but my nausea has diminished as has my watery stools. (solid, but tend to break after a minute or two) I am wondering if I should tell my physician to change me to a different antibiotic?
I’m a genuinely healthy adult, with little to no history of health issues, looking for few takes just to let me sleep at night, thanks!
I’m so happy to have found this place since I have just been diagnosed last week, and i tend to be the anxious type.
I am a 21 year old man, For the past month and a half I have had an odd discomfort in my abdominal region (lower slightly towards the left side) and then two weeks ago I started having consecutive loose stools for days, i would wake up feeling absolutely nauseous, white tongue, gas, and no appetite, with vomiting if I dare tried to eat to the point where I stopped going to work for a week. At first I thought it was an STI, but after a test I came back negative. I went to the walk in clinic and was told it was probably a stomach flu, or gastroenteritis, so I was prescribed pantoprazole, didn’t help anything. Two days ago, after a day or two of more formed stools, I woke up early to strong watery stools, at this point i had lost weight and I was taken to the ER by my parents and diagnosed with C. difficile.
I am wondering where I had gotten this though, I had not been to a hospital for a few months, other than my physicians office once and the one walk in clinic, which I didn’t use the washroom or touch anything specifically. I also haven’t been on antibiotics for a bit under a year. That still confuses me in my various googles.
I was prescribed metronidazole, which in my read of the forums seems to be the worst of the three I should take, I am having light abdominal cramps in different areas now two days into it, but my nausea has diminished as has my watery stools. (solid, but tend to break after a minute or two) I am wondering if I should tell my physician to change me to a different antibiotic?
I’m a genuinely healthy adult, with little to no history of health issues, looking for few takes just to let me sleep at night, thanks!