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Hey everyone.
Well, it has been about a month since I had my colonoscopy and I have had nothing but issues since! I ended up getting a vaginal infection from the whole prep stuff I am guessing. I mean It is odd since I have Never really had a vaginal infection before until now. Doctor thinks maybe from all the prep and trauma it threw off my PH down there and an infection took hold, who knows. Well I was treated with a gel that I put up there for 5 days. It got better. Well I got my menstrual cycle 2 weeks ago and right after it ended I started getting issues again down there. And NOW my bladder had been killing me in pain for the last 6 days! ( I already have Interstitial cystitis which is a painful bladder disease which the low dose antibiotic helps to keep in control)so this is not good. I have to take a low dose antibiotic to help keep the Urinary infections I am prone to at bay. Well I ended up having to up the low dose antibiotic to full strength yesterday and already my Intestines are Not liking it!!! I woke up today feeling more intestinal pain and cramping. I mean I have been not doing too bad since the colonoscopy intestinal wise, I mean I am not great, but still not horrible as before. Well now with having to up the augmentin, this is making me worse.
I don't have diarrhea or anything, but I got that feeling where I am crampy and feel like I can get it, if that makes any sense. I have been having issues for well over 2 years now with intestinal pains and issues. My main symptom is the BAD intestinal pains and crampiness and feeling like I always gotta go. I usually only go once a day though, but I always feel like I gotta go and have severe pain all the time. Well after the colonoscopy I felt awful for the first few days. Then I felt a little better in the gut. Well now with all this vaginal and urinary issues that were caused by the stupid colonoscopy, now I have to be on higher dose antibiotics and I know that is messing me up ever worse in my intestines! I am scared to death I am going to get worse or even C-diff!!! I take a TON of probiotics. I mean like over 100 billion counts a day. I am even taking florastor ( saccromyces Bualarrdi) daily in hopes that it is helping. I mean my fear is that when you drink that prep before you have the colonoscopy, well that flushes out all your bacteria and leaves you vunerable. It can take months to years to get that back in balance, even for a healthy person. Well I am already taking antibiotics low dose for years in order to treat my Urinary issues. That leaves me even more vunerable. I mean I know I take probitoics, but who knows how well those really work...
So here I am in a NOT good position. My colonoscopy did not show anything really and neither did the biopsies. So GI doc is putting the blame on severe IBS. I am sorry, I don't even believe in IBS! That just means they don't know. I have so much shit going on with my health and now my husband is having some health issues and that is stressful too. My body cannot take much more here. I am regretting even doing the colonoscopy as it has made a mess of my other health issues now and I still have No answers really. Now I have to be on high dose augmentin to try and get my bladder under control and that is wrecking havoc on my already messed up digestive tract! I just want to die sometimes.. My life is nothing put pain!
Thanks for listening. I am just scared and don't know what upping the augmentin is going to do to me. I CANT get diarrhea! Every time I get diarrhea for some reason, it messed up my bladder and I get infections! But I have to treat my bladder as I cannot let that go either! I just cant win!
Well, it has been about a month since I had my colonoscopy and I have had nothing but issues since! I ended up getting a vaginal infection from the whole prep stuff I am guessing. I mean It is odd since I have Never really had a vaginal infection before until now. Doctor thinks maybe from all the prep and trauma it threw off my PH down there and an infection took hold, who knows. Well I was treated with a gel that I put up there for 5 days. It got better. Well I got my menstrual cycle 2 weeks ago and right after it ended I started getting issues again down there. And NOW my bladder had been killing me in pain for the last 6 days! ( I already have Interstitial cystitis which is a painful bladder disease which the low dose antibiotic helps to keep in control)so this is not good. I have to take a low dose antibiotic to help keep the Urinary infections I am prone to at bay. Well I ended up having to up the low dose antibiotic to full strength yesterday and already my Intestines are Not liking it!!! I woke up today feeling more intestinal pain and cramping. I mean I have been not doing too bad since the colonoscopy intestinal wise, I mean I am not great, but still not horrible as before. Well now with having to up the augmentin, this is making me worse.
I don't have diarrhea or anything, but I got that feeling where I am crampy and feel like I can get it, if that makes any sense. I have been having issues for well over 2 years now with intestinal pains and issues. My main symptom is the BAD intestinal pains and crampiness and feeling like I always gotta go. I usually only go once a day though, but I always feel like I gotta go and have severe pain all the time. Well after the colonoscopy I felt awful for the first few days. Then I felt a little better in the gut. Well now with all this vaginal and urinary issues that were caused by the stupid colonoscopy, now I have to be on higher dose antibiotics and I know that is messing me up ever worse in my intestines! I am scared to death I am going to get worse or even C-diff!!! I take a TON of probiotics. I mean like over 100 billion counts a day. I am even taking florastor ( saccromyces Bualarrdi) daily in hopes that it is helping. I mean my fear is that when you drink that prep before you have the colonoscopy, well that flushes out all your bacteria and leaves you vunerable. It can take months to years to get that back in balance, even for a healthy person. Well I am already taking antibiotics low dose for years in order to treat my Urinary issues. That leaves me even more vunerable. I mean I know I take probitoics, but who knows how well those really work...
So here I am in a NOT good position. My colonoscopy did not show anything really and neither did the biopsies. So GI doc is putting the blame on severe IBS. I am sorry, I don't even believe in IBS! That just means they don't know. I have so much shit going on with my health and now my husband is having some health issues and that is stressful too. My body cannot take much more here. I am regretting even doing the colonoscopy as it has made a mess of my other health issues now and I still have No answers really. Now I have to be on high dose augmentin to try and get my bladder under control and that is wrecking havoc on my already messed up digestive tract! I just want to die sometimes.. My life is nothing put pain!
Thanks for listening. I am just scared and don't know what upping the augmentin is going to do to me. I CANT get diarrhea! Every time I get diarrhea for some reason, it messed up my bladder and I get infections! But I have to treat my bladder as I cannot let that go either! I just cant win!