Hello hurting ginny with the C diff,

Having recently been in the position of pooping & peeing down both legs getting to the bathroom, I feel for you. Two things I recommend that you do quickly is get some active Yogurt, drink buttermilk to replace the good guys while making what is supposed to be the granddaddy of all in replacing the good guys in your gut. The recipe for cultured cabbage can be pulled from the internet but it takes 3 days to fix your first batch. Making it yourself is much cheaper than buying probiotics. Succeeding cultured cabbage is hastened and only takes 2 days by using some of the first cultured cabbage as a starter. Keep taking this until your problem is ended and your poop floats. The other thing to start immediately is find you a compounding pharmacy and call to ask if they can prepare an 8 ounce supply of SSKI for you. Start taking 6 drops per day in unchlorinanted water (distilled is fine). Put potassium iodide in your search window and go: when given references look for the Tahoma Clinic one, pull it up and print it out on what it does for you, a wonderful solution that does many things, kills off many pathogens, parasites, molds, liquefies secretions in the body so they can be ejected in one way or another. When you feel that your C diff is under control, reduce your SSKI to 2 drops per day in unchlorinated water.

Lots of luck, Ginny and keep us posted on how you are doing, we care. If need be, we'll put our heads together and see what else we can come up with.

PS: In the future, if you are having symptoms indicating the need for a colonoscopy or other invasive procedure, have it but don't let anyone do an invasive procedure because of your age alone. My philosophy is that if it works, don't let anyone fix it, cut on it or cut it out, because you are likely to get worse problems than you already have. My next younger brother headed for emergency surgery when they perforated his colon during a colonoscopy.