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pb4
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Posted 10/4/2007 11:57 PM (GMT -6)
Patients with IBD more likely to die from C-Diff.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/83869.php
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pb4
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Posted 10/5/2007 12:15 PM (GMT -6)
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Sara14
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Posted 10/5/2007 12:46 PM (GMT -6)
Well, that's scary... but, good to know. Thanks for the info.
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ks1905
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Posted 10/5/2007 1:10 PM (GMT -6)
I'm a C.Diff Survivor. it was very painful; much worse than a UC flare. And the smell was awful.

One of the easiest ways to get C.diff is by taking Anti-biotics.

--Keith
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dakotagirl
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Posted 10/5/2007 6:19 PM (GMT -6)
Um - gulp - yikes!
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dakotagirl
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Posted 10/5/2007 6:52 PM (GMT -6)
I got to thinking - I know - scary! - but I wonder if this is true because as IBDers we're "used" to having D, etc and they let the infection progress further than a non-IBDer would???
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Paul L
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Posted 10/5/2007 7:53 PM (GMT -6)
Now they tell me. I just got over a case of C. difficile about 1 ½ months ago. I really didn’t feel any different. The only difference was that I went from 8 or 9 BMs per day to 5 or 6 after treatment.
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Posted 10/6/2007 8:25 AM (GMT -6)
To Paul L,

Could it be that you weren't responding to anything because of the C difficile this whole time?
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Paul L
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Posted 10/9/2007 7:27 PM (GMT -6)
Horus, I’m sorry I didn’t reply sooner but we went away for the long weekend. Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day here in Canada.

No I do not think that C. difficile had any effect on me not responding to any treatments. Because I was in two different clinical studies over the last two years I have been tested for C. difficile and other things many many times. about 2 months ago was the first and only time it came back positive. In fact for my current study I am tested just before every treatment. My doctor and I have determined that a round of antibiotics I took for an infection unrelated to UC last May and June was most likely the cause of my C. difficile. At that time I was off all UC meds until I entered the current study a month ago.
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