C. diff affects us all.

I never thought at age 20 I would ever have to worry about where the closest bathroom is to me at all times. However that all quickly changed when I first came into contact with C. diff in May 2017. During that month I was instructed to visit my local emergency room due to pain in my abdomen; most likely my appendix needed to be removed, I was told. On the bright side, I found out I did not have any issues with that whereas an ovarian cyst…

At just 20 years old, my world was flipped upside down when I found out that I had a mysterious infection in my eyes. C. diff. I had never heard the words. After a bout of strep throat in January 2017 and a course of antibiotics, my strep was worse, therefore I was put on another round of Azithromycin. It cured the strep and I seemed to be back to my normal 120 pounds, happy and healthy self. Two weeks later, I found myself miserably having…

My name is Sonia and I’m 29 years old, and a mother of 3 kids. I would love to share my story and give hope to everyone that may think it’s hopeless to fight this horrible disease – C. diff. Since I was a little girl I never had any issues taking antibiotics when I needed them to fight infection. I have never heard about C.diff I had always been a healthy girl, thank God. Everything started in January 2019 just by taking a trip to the Dentist…

It was September 2019, and I had been fighting a sinus thing for a few weeks. I didn’t have time to be sick, so I wanted the quick fix. The doctor wrote me a prescription without asking any questions, and without telling me that in all likelihood my sinus issues were from a virus, and antibiotics do not treat viruses. A week later I had a routine colonoscopy screening at the hospital. By then the broad-spectrum antibiotic I was on had wreaked…

My life forever changed in the summer of 2017. I had back surgery in June and things did not go as anticipated. As a way to ward off infection from a surgical incision that refused to close, my surgeon put me on Clindymyacin, for 40 days to be exact. I ended up back in the operating room to repeat the procedure and vividly remember telling him I would not take more antibiotics. The surgeon’s fear was that if I got an infection, it would go…

It has been one of the scariest rides in my life. I have always had some sort of gastrointestinal issues since I was a kid, now I have Celiac due to Acid Reflux. In April of 2019, I contracted a UTI then I had taken an antibiotic later to find out it was not even that great for it. A few weeks later I started to feel off, constantly running to the restroom at least 7-10 times a day, and things were gradually getting worse. By the third…

On February 3, 2020, I had a left breast lumpectomy and sentinel node dissection for breast cancer. On February 8, 2020, at around 10:00 pm I suddenly got pain and an urge to run to the bathroom, that’s when diarrhea started. Within an hour I was also vomiting and feverish. I waited too long that night to have my husband take me into the emergency room. At first, I thought I had food poisoning or something until it turned red with blood. The…

The relevant backstory is as follows: I had an abscess in an old root canal tooth, which they had to re-do the root canal. I had completed 10 days of amoxicillin beforehand. The re-do involved three two-and-a-half-hour sessions, and after the first one, I ended up in excruciating pain severe enough to send me to the ER. They gave me vicodin and sent me back to the endodontist, who prescribed clindamycin. The pain went away, the procedures were…

I took a pet sitting assignment in February 2019 and was staying in a senior’s condo when I suddenly came down with the symptoms of C. diff. This was strange because I was perfectly fine upon arrival, hadn’t been taking antibiotics, and hadn’t visited the hospital. But the lady who I was pet sitting for told me at length that she had bowel problems the doctors had diagnosed as IBS. I suspect that she might have been a carrier for C. diff and I…