Post-Dificid bouts of diarrhea - recovery or relapse?
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 12:14 pm
Hi,
I'm newish here and grateful for this forum. I'm in my second week of recovery after finishing 10 days of Dificid. (That came after two rounds of Vanco and two relapses quickly afterward.)
My question is that, in the last 10 days after finishing Dificid, I have had one symptom that mimic C diff: waking up to multiple trips to bathroom (3-6 visits of D, some super loose, occasionally with a bit of mucus). But then later that day, and the next day, things seem to get more tame and almost back to normal-ish.
I know D is common in cdiff recovery ... but is this 3-6 bathroom visits in a row on some mornings also normal? Anyone else experience this? It's the frequency I worry about.
I'm eating very very clean (no sugar, no dairy, no wheat, no alcohol, lots of probiotics and prebiotics and mostly cooked root veggies and fish - so not much to really trigger D.) I'm not having a lot of pain (except hunger pains) or fever or the "pushing" feeling I had with cdiff.
I can live with this for now - I just want to know if it's "normal" for recovery or if I should be thinking about hitting up the drugs again (I'd prefer to avoid that if I can).
Thank you!
Karen
I'm newish here and grateful for this forum. I'm in my second week of recovery after finishing 10 days of Dificid. (That came after two rounds of Vanco and two relapses quickly afterward.)
My question is that, in the last 10 days after finishing Dificid, I have had one symptom that mimic C diff: waking up to multiple trips to bathroom (3-6 visits of D, some super loose, occasionally with a bit of mucus). But then later that day, and the next day, things seem to get more tame and almost back to normal-ish.
I know D is common in cdiff recovery ... but is this 3-6 bathroom visits in a row on some mornings also normal? Anyone else experience this? It's the frequency I worry about.
I'm eating very very clean (no sugar, no dairy, no wheat, no alcohol, lots of probiotics and prebiotics and mostly cooked root veggies and fish - so not much to really trigger D.) I'm not having a lot of pain (except hunger pains) or fever or the "pushing" feeling I had with cdiff.
I can live with this for now - I just want to know if it's "normal" for recovery or if I should be thinking about hitting up the drugs again (I'd prefer to avoid that if I can).
Thank you!
Karen