Fear of re-infection, please help
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:45 pm
Hello All,
I had cdiff in Oct 2020 and took 10 days of vancomycin and slowly started healing with a tonne of PI-IBS. On July 1st this year , I had a D&C procedure done for miscarriage where they gave me 1 dose of IV clindamycin to prevent any infection due to the procedure. It was done without my alignment. I was told I would be given a low offender antibiotic but was given clindamycin instead. I had been doing fine and taking florastor and culturele every single day. It has been 5.5 weeks and today I had WD twice along with 2 formed stools. I typically have 2-3 BMs a day since the last cdiff bout. This diarrhea was accompanied by white foamy stuff which I believe is mucous. This is the time line when I got the cdiff last time too , took abx, got cdiff 5 weeks after. I am going to wait and watch for 3X3 but this feels very much like last time.
Please guide on what tests to do. I believe they did PCR on me last time. Should I go on vanco or difficid?
Also please share any thoughts to help mentally. I am a nervous mess but holding it in outside. Almost close to tears that this has happened because they messed up on antibiotics for me.
( I have had a surgery where some of my small intestine and appendix and small part of large intestine was taken out due to a bad case of ruptured appendix and which caused a complication of an acute kidney injury as well )
I had cdiff in Oct 2020 and took 10 days of vancomycin and slowly started healing with a tonne of PI-IBS. On July 1st this year , I had a D&C procedure done for miscarriage where they gave me 1 dose of IV clindamycin to prevent any infection due to the procedure. It was done without my alignment. I was told I would be given a low offender antibiotic but was given clindamycin instead. I had been doing fine and taking florastor and culturele every single day. It has been 5.5 weeks and today I had WD twice along with 2 formed stools. I typically have 2-3 BMs a day since the last cdiff bout. This diarrhea was accompanied by white foamy stuff which I believe is mucous. This is the time line when I got the cdiff last time too , took abx, got cdiff 5 weeks after. I am going to wait and watch for 3X3 but this feels very much like last time.
Please guide on what tests to do. I believe they did PCR on me last time. Should I go on vanco or difficid?
Also please share any thoughts to help mentally. I am a nervous mess but holding it in outside. Almost close to tears that this has happened because they messed up on antibiotics for me.
( I have had a surgery where some of my small intestine and appendix and small part of large intestine was taken out due to a bad case of ruptured appendix and which caused a complication of an acute kidney injury as well )