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I just finished my video call with Carmen. She said the Dificid usually takes 3-7 days before there's noticeable improvement, so it could be as early as tonight, but Friday is also plausible. Based on that, if I'm not feeling somewhat better by next Monday, which would be ten days, I will call her office again. (I was feeling better yesterday than the day before, but worse this morning, so that was probably random variation.) That had been the main thing I wanted to ask about.
Carmen also called in a prescription for a two-week supply of a probiotic. Wnile Dificid isn't as hard on the gut microbiome as some antibiotics, the probiotic still might help and won't hurt. If I start taking that today or tomorrow, I'll be taking it until a few days after I finish the Dificid.
Dr. McGonigle, who I talked to on Friday, said she wanted to redo some of the testing once I'm recovered, because the test that came back as "consistent with Crohn's and ulcerative colitis" tends to produce false positives if there's an active infection. Carmen agrees that retesting (rather than assuming a false positive) makes sense. While we were talking, she checked when to retest for C. diff. after the patient recovers, and the answers were "wait six weeks" and "don't even bother" (because even healthy people have enough of the bacteria in their system that it might show up on a test).
Carmen was shocked at how expensive the Dificid was, and I asked her to pass that information along to Dr. Morgan. Dr. Morgan might still have prescribed the Dificid, but if she'd known how expensive it was, I think she'd have asked whether I wanted to try something less expensive.
Carmen also called in a prescription for a two-week supply of a probiotic. Wnile Dificid isn't as hard on the gut microbiome as some antibiotics, the probiotic still might help and won't hurt. If I start taking that today or tomorrow, I'll be taking it until a few days after I finish the Dificid.
Dr. McGonigle, who I talked to on Friday, said she wanted to redo some of the testing once I'm recovered, because the test that came back as "consistent with Crohn's and ulcerative colitis" tends to produce false positives if there's an active infection. Carmen agrees that retesting (rather than assuming a false positive) makes sense. While we were talking, she checked when to retest for C. diff. after the patient recovers, and the answers were "wait six weeks" and "don't even bother" (because even healthy people have enough of the bacteria in their system that it might show up on a test).
Carmen was shocked at how expensive the Dificid was, and I asked her to pass that information along to Dr. Morgan. Dr. Morgan might still have prescribed the Dificid, but if she'd known how expensive it was, I think she'd have asked whether I wanted to try something less expensive.
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