clostridial infection
"I caught c diff after having two surgeries in 2 days and a hospital stay. I was in so much pain from the cdiff, nausea, diarrhea, cramping, sharp stabbing pains, and no appetite. I did one round of meds 3 times a day for 14 days. The symptoms only subsided a little, got tested again and still had high toxin levels. So they gave me another round, symptoms again got a little better. Got tested again and still had the toxins, so yet another round. To this day my insides are still haywire, but maybe have to do with the gallbladder removal as well. My surgeon explained cdiff can be a hard bugger to eliminate sometimes. So I feel like the medicine did its job, it won the war, just took a few battles to get there."