I was diagnosed with C Diff last week. Started taking Flagyl and it made me feel like crap! I felt like I couldn't stand for more than a couple minutes without the feeling that I was going to pass out. I went to my doctor's office yesterday to try to get advice but they told me that I had to make an appointment. I made an appointment for 1 pm yesterday. On my way home, I felt horrible. So, I decided that I would take myself to the hospital and sit in the ER parking lot for a little bit to see if I felt better. Usually this will work if it is anxiety that is causing my problems.
Well,I got out of my car because I felt like I was burning up. I was standing outside of the ER thinking of whether or not I should go in. At this time, my docotrs office called and asked me what my symptoms were. I told the nurse what was going on and that I was standing outside of the ER and was contemplating whether or not I should go through the ER because I felt terrible. She told me to let her know if I was going to go inside withing the next 15 minutes because that is when my doctor and everyone else at the office go to lunch. So, I decided that I was going to go inside and see if I could get my temperature checked because I felt like I was really hot. My temperaure turned out to be normal so I went outside and called my doctor's offie and told them that I would be there for my appointment. When I told her this, she asked me if I had a headache. I told her that it had subsided since I stopped taking the medication. At this time, she asked me to hold for a minute. When she got back on the phone, she told me that my doctor said to go back ino the ER and get checked out. Talk about anxiety!! I could not stop shaking because I was so nervous about what was going on because the nurse would not tell me why the doctor said that. Well, come to find out, I was having a reaction of some sort to the Flagyl and they told me to not take it anymore. I was then prescribed Vancocin.
I went to the pharmacy to get it and the lady at the counter told me that she hopes that my insurance covers it. I asked her why and she told me that for the amount that they prescribed me over a period of ten days would cost $2,400 without insurance. Luckily my insurance covered it and I only had to pay a couple dollars. This stuff has been making me tired and I am pretty sure that taking my psych meds along with it does not help at all. I took it for the first time yeasterday evening and after about half an hour, I was ready for bed. At 1 am I took another dose and didn'treall feel the tiredness. Well, about an hour later, I decided to g to bed and I popped my 750mgs of Depakote ER and went to sleep. I woke up at 8:30 this morning and was so tired that I could barely get out of bed. I went to the bathroom and immediately went back to bed. I slept for two more hours and can still feel the tiredness. I took a klonopin about a half an hour ago and wonder what type of effect it is going to have on me. Fun stuff for sure!
Not sure if this is normal for this medication or not. I always jump to conclusions and think that there is something wrong happening inside my body. I have to learn to stop these constant negative thoughts when I have issues like this because all it does is send my anxiety into a state of panic. I am tired and have been typing fast so if there are some mistakes throughout this, sorry lol
It\'s a bacterial colon infection and I still have it. I am not sure how I contracted it. I was told that if someone has it and doesn\'t properly wash their hands after going to the bathroom and they touch a surface, then you touch the same surface and then eat something or even touch the inside of your mouth, you can get it. It never got to the point that I needed to be hospitalized.
I has a horrible case of C Diff last year that relapsed for 7 months. I was fist on Flagyl and it also made me horribly sick to the point that I didn\'t eat for like a week and dropped tons of weight. Then I started taking Vancocin, as well, and yes it is expensive. Good thing for insurance. It didn\'t make me as sick but I was still dealing with horrible anxiety. I was taking in on top of ativan. I think the constant feeling of being sick and not getting any better just spurred on my horrible anxiety. I even once went into the ER because I was so scared of myself and what my anxiety and thoughts would do to me. Everytime I went off of Vancoci, I would relaspe with C Diff 2 weeks later. It kept occurring. Then I had to start my second year of college. I was having horrible anxiety along with still struggling with C Diff and the pain that goes along with that infection. I totally feel for you and if you have any questions, let me know
Wow. I hope that I don\'t have a relapse of this because it is no fun at all! I have taken five doses so far of the vancocin and I just started to feel nauseous. Hopefully it goes away because this is not a good feeling. Lol
Yeah I hope yours doesn\'t relapse either. I don\'t wish that upon anyone. C Diff is the worst, so much abdominal pain.
(knocking on wood) I only had pain the first day or so. I think that they caught it pretty early because I wasn\'t having all the symptoms that usually come with it. I was only having diarrhea and the stomach cramping that I usually associate with my IBS. It was only by coincidence that I went in to get meds for my IBS that I found out that I had this. I feel like crap now but I think it\'s my body dealing the the infection, also the vancocin. I just feel drained physically.