IBS

[InRareForm]

Some antiobiotic pills I took 2 years ago changed my whole digestive system.

Tried taking probiotics, eating yogurt, banana, etc.... finally got my system almost back in track, but it isn't what it used to be. I have to take showers everytime I take a shit.. but that's not a problem because I shit in the morning usually, so it works out.

Anyone else have it?

[Bynumite]

I have to take showers everytime I take a shit

:lmao

Shitty situation but i couldn't help but laugh :lmao

[lakerhaterade]

:lmao

Shitty situation but i couldn't help but laugh :lmao
:lmao

[DeadlyDynasty]

What AB did that to you (and what were you taking it for), Flagyl?

[InRareForm]

What AB did that to you (and what were you taking it for), Flagyl?

doxycycline and Clindamycin for an infected cyst.

[DeadlyDynasty]

wtf? How bad was the infection, cause Doxycycline is typically used for malaria patients iirc

[InRareForm]

wtf? How bad was the infection, cause Doxycycline is typically used for malaria patients iirc

It's effective for skin infections too. The cyst was also on a very bad spot on my neck and somewhat risky business to remove, so I had to take 2 antibiotics to make it go away completely.

[Trainwreck2100]

must have absolutely killed your flora, go spend more time with your parents they are who you get it from.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Fecal transplant.


A little more than a year ago, I wrote a piece in Scientific American about fecal transplants — replacing the stool in someone’s colon with stool donated by someone else — as a treatment for the pernicious, recurrent diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile infection.

I have been a journalist for two decades, and some of my stories have won prizes, triggered hearings and legislation, and caused people to change their minds about significant social issues — but I don’t think anything I have written has ever proved as sticky with an audience as that 1,500-word column. In the 60 or so weeks since it was published, I have heard from more than 100 people — yes, that’s more than 1 per week — who are afflicted with C. diff, believe that a transplant could help them, but cannot find a doctor who agrees that the procedure has merit.

A paper published Wednesday evening in the New England Journal of Medicine may give those patients assistance, and change those doctors’ minds. It represents the first report from a completed randomized trial of fecal transplants, and it finds that the treatment worked much better than the powerful antibiotics that are usually given for C. diff infection — so much better, in fact, that the trial was ended early, because the monitoring board supervising the trial’s execution could not ethically justify withholding the transplants from more patients.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/fecal-clinical-trial/