Nurse practitioner's advice

Sarita,
It looks like you have a good person looking out for you and your well being. Thats what we long for so much in our healthcare professionals and the fact that she listened to your needs is great. I hope the flagyl gives you some relief. Make sure you are taking those probiotics along with it :) Let us know how everything goes. Crossing my fingers for you!!
Take Care

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Wouldn't that just be the thing if a few more rounds of antibiotics along with lots and lots of probiotics cleared you up? I think if it was me and it worked, I'd make a hit list of doctors--in the order I saw them in--and go around and kick the dust out of their pants and say, "What, were you dense or something?!?" I'm telling you, I was terribly tempted to do it after I got my gall bladder diagonsis that I had to wait on for 5 years. I think I saw 5 or 6 doctors during that time that couldn't figure out what my mother new from the get-go.

Of course my mother has always said that nurses know more than doctors, LOL.

I so hope it works for you. Even if it just helped some, that would be a benefit. I think you said before you weren't on calcium, but you might want to try some of it while you do this since I have read online that it can help heal the intestinal tract and soothe inflammation--both of which can be caused by bad bacterias. Lord knows if that's your problem, you've had them in there long enough to really trash the place.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Thanks for the info, Ides.  I might look into it one of these days if I get desperate enough again (not quite there yet - "yet" being the operative word).

I'm on day five of the Flagyl.  So far, so-so.  It's giving me headaches and nausea every day; common side effects, I hear.  But I had three days of great poos - Thursday through Saturday.  I mean, they were picturesque!  I was so proud and optimistic.  Then on Sunday I had the big D again all day long.  Crushed.  But it's not over yet.  I still have five days left to go.

I just feel like I have so much medication and "stuff" in me - Flagyl, Protonix, Zofran, Imodium, and acetominophen, plus I've started the calcium, Citrucel, and probiotics again.  I feel icky and washed out, like a marshmallow.

Good luck, Sarita! Please keep us posted.

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WOO-HOO!

I finished up yesterday...and I'm on DAY 8 with stunning bathroom glories...I am telling you, if this was the trick, I wouldn't mind walking to the @#$* Mayo Clinic and telling them to eat you-know-what.  Uh, did that sound too aggressive?