Hello Everyone!
I hope everyone is doing well. A quick update- I am 14 weeks past last Vanco. My BMs have been all over the place with shape, color, texture and numbers on the bristol chart.
I sometimes get greenish-blackish stools as I am taking iron supplements. Only, that today I did notice the end of my BM, some redness on the final pieces of my BM. I am not sure why that is the case! I have been having some itching in the rectal area and I use bidet mostly. I am guessing it is case of haemoroids or fissures. I do go to the bathroom 2-3 times a day and my BMs aren't hard and they have been easy to pass so not sure why this is happening.
I currently take 1 florastor every night. Should I be continuing that seeing that I saw bleeding? Please advise. Any insights are greatly welcome!!
I am really hoping it is just haemorroids and I will connect with my PCP to check on this.
Thank you so much
Question about bleeding and Florastor
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Re: Question about bleeding and Florastor
I know that there is a warning that if you have intestinal bleeding to not use Florastor, but I don't know if that includes rectal bleeding. If you have it in the small intestine or colon I think you are not supposed to use it. That is really a question for your doctor though and I think you should definitely call and ask before you continue taking it.
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Re: Question about bleeding and Florastor
Thank you Beth! I went this morning and haven't seen anything. One thing I missed mentioning was, I had some beets to eat for lunch yesterday around 12.30 PM and I had a BM around 4.30 PM which is what had that color and then another one at 7.30 PM which turned the toilet water reddish-magenta. And I obviously freaked out. I am going to monitor it some more today and see.
I just was not sure if beets would color the stools so fast within 4 hours of eating them. Can anyone share their thoughts or experiences with this?
I just was not sure if beets would color the stools so fast within 4 hours of eating them. Can anyone share their thoughts or experiences with this?
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Re: Question about bleeding and Florastor
I would totally blame the beets! :)
It's amazing how fast foods/medications can impact your stool. I remember taking Pepto Bismol for the first time and having black stool shortly after. I freaked out until I did some research and realized that was the cause lol
If you've only seen red in the toilet bowl once, I would assume it was the beets or maybe hemmorhoids. But obviously if it starts happening more frequently (without eating beets), then it should be investigated.
It's amazing how fast foods/medications can impact your stool. I remember taking Pepto Bismol for the first time and having black stool shortly after. I freaked out until I did some research and realized that was the cause lol
If you've only seen red in the toilet bowl once, I would assume it was the beets or maybe hemmorhoids. But obviously if it starts happening more frequently (without eating beets), then it should be investigated.
32 y/o female. Got C. diff in Feb. 2020. Prescribed Flagyl (10 days), then Flagyl again (4 days), then Vanco (10 days), then Dificid (10 days), then Dificid again (10 days), then a Vanco taper (5 wks), then a Dificid taper (2 mths) and finally recovered.
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Re: Question about bleeding and Florastor
That has happened to me with beets before too and it turned my urine reddish too. I also freaked out until I read that it can do that.
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Re: Question about bleeding and Florastor
Thank you both for replying! I have been checking stools today and so far so good. I am cautiously ready to blame beets. Will keep a watch for few more days. I agree that how quickly food gets digested or undigested and passes through the system!
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