Vanco Taper/Pulse Dose and Stomach Pain

[shooten]

Hello Everyone, I was diagnosed with C Diff at the end of May 2017. I had a 10 day run of flagyl and a week later relapsed. Went on a 14 day run of flagyl and toward then end of that run I started having all the flagyl side effects. 10 days later I started having symptoms again and my doctor had me retested and was positive for c diff. Since the flagyl was so hard on me the second time around I had my doctor switch me to vancomycin. I did four 125mg pills a day for a week, 3 a day for a week, 2 a day for a week, 1 a day for a week, 1 every other day for a week, and 1 every third day for a week. When I was doing one a week I started having some of the best BM i had had in quite a while. I was feeling great and could eat anything I wanted without a problem. I just got done with my week of one pill every other day and have started having issues. No WD, BM still formed but without as much girth as previously. I also am having tenderness in the center of my stomach, very similar to when I had gastritis back in 2014 (had to go on a PPI for 6 months to heal my stomach lining). I also have a lack of appetite, burping even though I haven't eaten anything. Luckily the pain seems localized in my stomach, not much tenderness in my intestines which makes me think it might be gastritis. I have been taking 2 to 4 florastor a day along with 2 bluebiotics a day. While on the everyday vancomycin I had no issues what so ever. Has anyone else had any issues while pulse dosing their vancomycin? I am worried it might have caused gastritis and I really don't want to take a PPI since I have read that it can promote c diff growth. I do have 300mg ranitidine (zantac) to take to help with heartburn.

[beth22]

I actually did get gastritis and pancreatitis with c diff or post c diff. The taper worked for me until I got to one pill a day, and I relapsed. Others have had better luck though. It is not unusual to get symptoms when you taper down until your body adjusts.