do I have colon cancer? or C-Diff?

douglas7
douglas7 Member Posts: 3

so about 2 months ago, I started taking clindamycin for a staph infection on my ear! about 4 days after taking the antibiotics, I started noticing differences in my stools, such as lines/indents running down the stool, and some mucus, and loss of appetite! then about 2 weeks later I started noticing blood in my stool, so i went to the ER and right away the Er doctor told me I had a C-Diff infection in my colon caused by the antibiotics, which all these symptoms can be caused by it, so  he prescribed me some flagyl for ten days, but it didnt really help, so they took some stool samples to test for the infection, but it came back negative, but the thing is, the test they gave me is only about 65 percent accurate and often times shows negative results when its relly positive! like I said I was COMPLETELY fine before taking the Clindamycin, but after taking it (its been about 2 months now) nothings been the same with my bowl movements and im so worried :(

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  • douglas7
    douglas7 Member Posts: 3
    Also I forgot to mention that

    Also I forgot to mention that my anus/rectum has been leaking this sorta clear watery substances, and always feeels moist down there by my anus, and again this started about 4 days after the clindamycin!

  • lp1964
    lp1964 Member Posts: 1,239 Member
    Dear Douglas,

    Clyndamycin is a strong broad spectrum antibiotic that pretty much kills everything including the bacteria in your guts. Many times when the good bugs are in low numbers the bad bugs get on top and cause trouble. Getting probiotics and yoghurt is a good idea to put the good bugs back.

    Follow up with your dovtors until you get a definite answer.

    Laz

  • douglas7
    douglas7 Member Posts: 3
    lp1964 said:

    Dear Douglas,

    Clyndamycin is a strong broad spectrum antibiotic that pretty much kills everything including the bacteria in your guts. Many times when the good bugs are in low numbers the bad bugs get on top and cause trouble. Getting probiotics and yoghurt is a good idea to put the good bugs back.

    Follow up with your dovtors until you get a definite answer.

    Laz

    Thank you :)

    Thank you :)

  • Easyflip
    Easyflip Member Posts: 588 Member
    I would

    get a colonoscopy to just rule out cancer, better safe than sorry. I had absolutely no symptoms and had a routine colonoscopy and BAM stage 4 cancer! Good luck, you probably have cdiff but why not find out for sure?

    Easyflip/Richard