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"will start VSL #3 when antibiotics are done"

Just curious as I saw this in your sig, why are you waiting to take VSL after you're done your antibiotics?  Probiotics are very beneficial to take daily as it is for IBDers but especially beneficial for those times while taking antibiotics.

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I'm surprised that your GI has that line of thinking...as long as you take your probiotics at least 2 hours after you're finished taking your antibiotics for the day, then there's no worries of the antibiotics killing off the probiotics...so in a sence they don't mix only because the antis kill everything, but you need good bacteria in your system...

It's almost crucial that you're on probiotics while taking antibiotics because they kill off all bacteria, good and bad and that leaves your systmem so much more vulnerable to other nasty things...if it were me, no way would I follow your GI's advice on this one.

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hmm, well i have to go back into the office for a test on wed, so i will ask her to clarify her thinking and i will report back...

she didn't want me to be on anti's and probiotics at the same time. so i finished the anti's, started VSL #3 but now i have run out of that and it is too expensive for me to buy more so i am starting a nature's way probiotic.

I don't know about VSL #3 specifically, but I have ALWAYS been advised to eat lots of yogurt when on any kind of antibiotic b/c you need the extra live cultures in yogurt to restore the cultures in the stomahc killed by antibiotics. I have always lived by that and always tolerated antibiotics well, including cipro.