I was given vancomycin for 10 days, one capsule every 6 hours, to treat Clostridium difficile infection. I followed the eating plan exactly. Took a good probiotic. Three weeks later, I was running a low grade fever, heart racing at night and elevated blood pressure (BP). I’m 73. I was put on another 10 days of vancomycin. I added the Saccharomyces boulardii probiotic twice a day to my previous routine. I cut out added sugar and caffeine. Stools haven’t been this normal looking in a few years, so I believe I’ve carried C. diff a while. Taking clindamycin caused this.

I took vancomycin capsules, 4 a day for 10 days to treat my C. difficile. At first (4 to 5 days) every time I took a capsule, I had diarrhea. Then everything got better. My symptoms were diarrhea, loss of appetite, and fatigue. My non-medical friends told me to take probiotics, get ginger candy, and drink electrolytes. Unproven, but why not. After 7 days, I felt much better.

I was on about 7 rounds of antibiotics (Flagyl, vancomycin, Dificid) but it kept coming back. I just had a FMT (fecal microbiota transplant) 3 weeks ago. This is the longest I have gone without diarrhea or antibiotics in almost a year. Yay! It sounds gross but it worked!

My C. difficile infection was treated with an antibiotic called Flagyl, bland diet to rest my colon, Zofran for nausea, and increased water to prevent dehydration. I used enema twice to move larger stool that was unable to pass through the inflamed colon.