Good news . . . I got a broadband Internet connection in my house. Awesome.

Bad news . . . Pretty sure I got C. difficile colitis too.

99F temp, lower abdomenal pain, and, um, well let's just call it a bad tummy if you know what I mean. Past two days since saturday night. Here's what I did. Stopped my IV and oral abx. Tripled all my probiotic and yogurt supplements. Started flagyl. And called my doc, I'll talk to her tomorrow.

Can anyone share with me their personal experience with clostridium difficile colitis? Any insight on what I must do and must not do to beat this and get back on my antibiotics is much appreciated.

Thanks. Best Wishes.

It has worked like a charm for me. I now take Sac. Bou. regularly when on abx and I haven't had any more C. Diff problems.

I don't want to advertise for any one brand but I had a heck of a time finding this product after I finally learned about it (the guy at the local health food store totally scoffed at the idea of a beneficial yeast and told me he had never heard of Sacchromyces Boulardii).

So here's my source...Jarrow makes a good product and you can get it for a good price at www.iHerb.com.

i am sorry about the C. Diff, have no advice, one of the few things i haven't had.

I've been looking for you - my computer crashed and i lost your email address and number and i really wanted to run some stuff by you. Things are so bad - long story. Would love to hear your opinion though sorry you are doing so badly. Can you email me whenever you feel better?

Ouch! Sorry about the c-diff. I had it several years ago and it's definitely a pain in the a**

I took flagyl for 10 days and it cleared it right up. You need to stay in touch with your doctor on this one. It can become very serious if not treated correctly.

This is a link to discussion of studies on SB in treating antibiotic-related diarrhea and other matters.

Let me know how much Flagyl you took too please and for how long. Thanks!

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When I had it, the lower abdominal pain was significant, I was nauseaous, had a fever, and the runs, well, unbelievably. That was the first time when I had never had it before. Subsequently, I identified my "early detection system" and had milder symptoms when requesting a test. C. diff is a normal resident of your intestines but can grow out of control if your flora is upset (as in the case of antibiotic treatment). The bug produces two toxins (cleverly named A and B) which basically eat away at your intestines producing the fabulous symptoms of the runs, bleeding, and pain. However, rather than guess, postulate, and hypothesize, just get the test done!!! Very easy, takes a day or so to get results.

If you really have it, taking more acidophyllus and yogurt is kind of like spitting into the ocean. Treatment is either flagyl or oral vanco (which is what I use since I'm allergic to flagyl). Flagyl is famous on this board; oral vanco is tremendously expensive but works well (and its not absorbed systemically, stays in the gut, so little risk of side effects).

Probiotics and yogurt will help and are a good way to decrease your odds of getting this generally. Studies (you can find them on pub-med) show that S. Boulardi helps C. diff symptoms in combo with Flagyl/vanco that weren't treated well with F/V alone.

Anyway, you could have it (mildly thus far) so don't wait until it gets worse so that your symptoms match the books! Just get the easy test from doc, and if you don't have it, keep up the good work of taking those probiotics...