diagnosed with C.diff and left side abdominal pain

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joseafon
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diagnosed with C.diff and left side abdominal pain

Postby joseafon » Fri May 25, 2018 4:10 pm

Hello, my 1st post around here, and am reading a lot of great information around the forum :)
Am a male and have 25 years.

Well, my story started three years before, where I had a periodic bleeding period. Doctors said it was hemorrhoids, and even did a sigmoidoscopy to rule out other problems. Everything came clean and I was fine.

Last year, in April, I had bloody diarrhea, and got an appointment with the doc only 1 month after. In between that wait the bloody diarrhea stopped, and the doctor said you might have had c.diff, because I had took Clavamox antibiotic. Didn't do any tests and sent me home again. Before meeting the doc specialist, I had a consult in my country where I had a 5 day dose of flagyl that I believe put C.diff away for that time

Coming to this year, I began to have pressure pain in my left abdominal side, it almost felt like something was going to explode in there because of the gas that was building up. I would wake up in the middle of the night with chills and excrutinizing pain there, and would relieve when I went to toilet. At this point I had mucus, blood, and liquid stool twice or thrice a day.

Went again to the doctor, and he told me to do a colonoscopy. After one week, I dd the colonoscopy.
The doctor told me that my whole large bowel was in a severe stage, and he could't believe I had not many symptoms. He told he needed to verify if I was C.diff positive before giving any meds, because it could have a really bad effect on me.

I did it and C.dff positive, so the doc got me in a 14 day Flagyl 400mg course thrice a day. Bad side effects, metalic taste, and a feeling of fatigue and nausea happened, but I finished all of it. The doc had told me to do a sigmoidoscopy after flagyl, and I did and it was better now, the bowel was healing but not everything.
So he put me on Vancomycin 125mg 4 times a day injection but I have to take it orally so I have to prepare the compound solution. No oral tabs in my country unfortunately.

Day 1 of vancomycin and I started having that gas pain in my left abdomen again. Dont have diarrhea since flagyl, but is the pain returning because of the vancomycin?
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beth22
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Re: diagnosed with C.diff and left side abdominal pain

Postby beth22 » Sat May 26, 2018 1:36 am

Hi joseafon and welcome to the site. Please read the first forum for information for new posters.

Vancomycin gave a me a lot of gas and it can also cause looser stools. Give it a couple of days to see if symptoms subside, but if not, call your GI and let him know. If you just had a sigmoidoscopy, that could give you looser stools and gas too. I know after I have had them, I have a lot of trapped gas and I had D for a day or two afterwards. Before c diff, the Fleet's enema I had to do as a prep never bothered me, but not since the c diff. I would think this would be even worse if your colon is already irritated.

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Re: diagnosed with C.diff and left side abdominal pain

Postby OCmama » Sat May 26, 2018 10:37 pm

I am curious what country are you in?

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Re: diagnosed with C.diff and left side abdominal pain

Postby joseafon » Sun May 27, 2018 2:38 pm

Thanks for the heads up Beth22 ! As for the colon inflamed, yes, it was pretty bad but aftrr the dose of flagyl and sigmoidoscopy it looked better for the doc, but he put me on vanco bcause I still had patches in my colon.

OCmama i am from Mozambique, Africa :)

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Re: diagnosed with C.diff and left side abdominal pain

Postby Ril » Mon May 28, 2018 7:05 pm

Joseafon, Flagyl is no longer suggested to be used for c diff but vancomycin is so hopefully that will work for you in a few days.
You should not need another test with a prep if your symptoms ease up as that will disturb the good flora that you want to build up in your gut.
Ask your dr about when you can add a probiotic like s, boulardii if it is available in your country. It can be taken along with vanco and some believe it may help.

Rita

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Re: diagnosed with C.diff and left side abdominal pain

Postby beth22 » Tue May 29, 2018 1:25 am

Give the vanco a chance to work. It does take a while. I always tried to take mine with meals.


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