C. diff affects us all.

I was diagnosed with C. diff and ended up in the hospital for three weeks. I was put on vancomycin and dificid. I had a recurrence and ended up getting an FMT. I also ended up in rehab because I developed reactive arthritis. I relapsed again after one year after being put on antibiotics again for diverticulitis with vancomycin as a Prophylactic. But this time I didn’t get as sick. I’ve been C. diff free for 9 months. I was taken off of a PPI…

Two years ago I realized I was having another flare up with my Diverticulosis. I had been hospitalized for it in 2014 and had been successfully treated with no issues since. The pain was so bad that I drove myself to the local hospital in town and was admitted after the scan showed that I was having a flare. I was treated for 2 days and released with prescriptions for Flagyl . I followed up with the GI people in Tallahassee. They recommended a…

My daughter began with a sore tummy at the end of October and I believed it was constipation. After giving her some laxative, hot water bottle and waiting a few days the tummy pain didn’t improve but just kept getting worse. GP diagnosed her with constipation 3 days later and ordered urine test and x-ray. Pain continued to get worse and after over a week we had to attend the ED due to severe pain. They repeated urine test and did an ultrasound…

I really do not know exactly where I contracted C. diff, I was not on any antibiotics, we just did a lot of traveling with my son’s baseball team. In April I received my last COVID vaccine. One month after the vaccine I was having issues with stomach cramps and regularly loose bowels that soon became daily diarrhea within the 2 weeks that it started. My diarrhea started to smell foul and most of the time was green. I went to the ER because I…

I’m writing this on behalf of my wife. Around September of 2021 she started having diarrhea several times a day. This went on for about two weeks before she finally went to her doctor. Diagnosed with C. diff. After two weeks on metronidazole no improvement. Another doctor and two weeks on vancomycin, still no improvement. She got an appointment at a GI clinic. Two more weeks on a more intense treatment of vancomycin, things did improve, seemed…

I was prescribed a round of Augmentin for a sinus infection just a few months after I had been on a round of Augmentin for kidney infection. After I had finished the 2nd round, I still had a fever and didn’t feel right. The doctor put me on yet another round of Augmentin. Little did I know at the time how bad it was to take antibiotics, especially the same ones back to back. After I finished the antibiotics, the diarrhea started and after…

My story begins in the summer of 2017. I remember being in my living room and not feeling right, so I went outside for some fresh air. Then I felt a weird sensation in my left arm and I panicked. I told my wife to get me to the ER. At the ER, they ran tests and said my heart was fine but it seemed I had a lot of noise in my intestines. They gave me a bunch of antacids/antireflux meds and sent me home. The next day when I woke up, BAM! Everything…

August 7th , 2010, will forever be a day in my life that I will never forget. This was the first day that would start over a decade-long battle with a bacterial infection that I had never heard of. The day started off like a normal summer day. I was enjoying warm weather and hanging by a pool, gearing up for my upcoming school year. It took a swift turn in the matter of moments where I was projectile vomiting blood and having constant…

As long as I can recall, I have suffered from stomach pain and intense bloating. In 2018, I began my journey of looking for relief to these symptoms which would lead me down the dark road of contracting recurrent, antibiotic resistant C. diff at the young age of 27. I was prescribed several rounds of antibiotics by health care professionals for what they diagnosed as SIBO (whether I actually had SIBO or not, I still don’t know). Due to those…