Hi guys looking to see whether there is anybody out there in the same position as me. I have been suffering over the last four months after having food poisoning in Egypt this lead to returning home and going to the toilet up to 25 times a day passing blood and mucus! I saw a specialist who questioned whether I could still have a parasite in my body and gave me tinidazole antibiotic, after taking for 7 days I was still no better so had a flexible sigmoidoscopy which confirmed I had inflammation in my rectum hence colitis diagnosis. I was immediately put on asacol suppositories which seemed to irritate me more so after speaking to my nurse she decided to start me on 45mg of prednisone for 2 weeks then lowering by 5mg per week. This was four weeks ago I then saw another specialist last Tuesday I explained things had got better the bleeding had stopped however I was still having back and abdomen pain and going to the toilet up to 8 times a day. He asked me to do a stool sample which came back on Friday diagnosing me with c. Diff I had stool samples done before but they failed to test me for this infection - slightly annoying!! Now I have had to lower my steroids to 4 a day which seems to be making my colitis worse and they have started me on vancomycin for 10 days. I am feeling so tired from it all. Has anyone been in this situation? The nurse is now questioning the colitis just in case it was c.diff the whole time?! It is all very confusing I am back at the hospital on Tuesday hopefully to do another stool sample that will be all clear. Any advice would be greatly appreciated