Lid49
I'm curios how many people were treated with 250 vancomycin 4/day. I used to be on 125 mg 4/day .
After my first FMT I did not do god on 125 mg 4/day. I'm a small person only 105 lb, lost 14 lb.
Dr. order me taper but I relapse on 125 mg4/ day after one week. Tomorrow I will meet my new GI from mayo to see if I can have one more FMT.
Thank you.
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I took Vanco 250 4/day for 10 days. Then relapsed 2 weeks later and took 250 4/day and did a 3 month taper. That was not successful either in my case but it has been for many on the site
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Re: 250 vanconycin
I was also started on 250mg 4 x per day. I relapsed and did a long taper that did not work once I got to 1 x per day. Had to have FMT.
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Re: 250 vanconycin
i had 125 but never 250. ended up taking vanco 500x 4 a day for 2 months before a second fmt as my last treatment in February.
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Thank you all, I was a little concern. I will post the news from the doctor regarding FMT.
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Re: 250 vanconycin
I also had taken lots of courses of 250 mg of Vanco , never felt like symptoms were controlled when I was on 125 mg.
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Lid49
Hi again
Today I was at Mayo Clinic for second opinion and to see if a second FMT will be done.
The DR. opinion was first a curse of deficid for 2 weeks and will se if they will do second FMT or maybe medication long term ( indefinitely)
Wandering if I will ever recover.
Thank you for all your support.
Hi again
Today I was at Mayo Clinic for second opinion and to see if a second FMT will be done.
The DR. opinion was first a curse of deficid for 2 weeks and will se if they will do second FMT or maybe medication long term ( indefinitely)
Wandering if I will ever recover.
Thank you for all your support.
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Re: 250 vanconycin
I’ve taken 125 4X a day and relapsed. Then 250x 4x a day and relapsed. Then a 250x taper and relapsed. I ended up needing a combo of dificid and a FMT to finally beat c diff. But I have read others have been treated successfully with vanco...
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If I were you I would push for a long course of Dificid followed by FMT at 48 h after the course is finished , I personally think that is the best combination to treat relapsing Cdiff.
Try to have some faith , you will recover but it takes time and lots of patience. Sending positive vibes your way!
If I were you I would push for a long course of Dificid followed by FMT at 48 h after the course is finished , I personally think that is the best combination to treat relapsing Cdiff.
Try to have some faith , you will recover but it takes time and lots of patience. Sending positive vibes your way!
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I would definitely not take medication indefinitely. I was on it long term and it did me more harm than good. I would do as the doctor said and try the Dificid. If you feel better with the Dificid, call and ask about doing a taper with it.
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Thank you all
I did ask for a taper deficid, DR order was 2 weeks, if not improving we do FMT, I got the email from Mayo last night.
Again many thanks. Lid49.
I did ask for a taper deficid, DR order was 2 weeks, if not improving we do FMT, I got the email from Mayo last night.
Again many thanks. Lid49.
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Glad you are going on Dificid, it may work as it has for so many on the site. Let us know how you do!
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Having a difficult time with deficid, Pain under my ribs, cramps BM all over the place, nausea, Oh I will call the DR .
Discussing FMT I have 2 choices Standard doner or my doner. My husband is not e god candidate , so standard doner Mayo clinic I guess will be the choice.
Thank you so much.
Discussing FMT I have 2 choices Standard doner or my doner. My husband is not e god candidate , so standard doner Mayo clinic I guess will be the choice.
Thank you so much.
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Sorry you are not getting relief of symptoms but in my opinion , if no antibiotic for CDiff doesn't seems to help you , it means that something else is happening inside your gut and you need to be tested for other illneses too , not just for Cdiff. You should talk to your GI and ask if you could get tested for : SIBO , IBD , other pathogens .
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Re: 250 vanconycin
100% agree with Georgina, there's no case of c.diff that does not respond to Vancomycin/dificid, it might return after treatment but always responds during treatment. (Minor inconvenient symptoms might remain)
If you do not respond to vanco/dificid it could be something else.
C.diff meds typicaly kick in between day 4 and 7 and the meds do not just switch off the symptoms, your gut has to recover and repair, that takes time.
If you do not respond to vanco/dificid it could be something else.
C.diff meds typicaly kick in between day 4 and 7 and the meds do not just switch off the symptoms, your gut has to recover and repair, that takes time.
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