Monday, January 25, 2010

IBSTC Appointment

I felt much worse this morning. I have more intense cramping pain (which woke me up at 3am), nausea, chills and diarrhea. So I decided to make an appointment to see my doctor at his clinic rather than exchange emails. I already planned to buy caprylic acid to treat achromobacter at his clinic, along with more probiotics. However, I read online so many bad reports about achromobacter bacteremia (blood infections) that I want to personally ask my doctor what he knows about treating that bacteria. I hope he knows more about achromobacter than he knew about recurrent c-diff.

Meanwhile I wonder whether I really recovered from c-diff. Maybe my last stool test just reflected no active c-diff bacteria, rather than no c-diff spores. I fear that treating achromobacter with any kind of antibiotic (even botanical caprylic acid) may trigger those c-diff spores to morph into full blown bacteria. I sure don't want to pay $350 for another stool test to determine whether I still have c-diff after I treat achromobacter. SIGH

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