This is Mouse. We found her as a malnourished kitten in 2012, running across a busy overpass in Oklahoma City. We fished her out of a bush and put her in a whole foods bag and took her straight to the vet. She had a broken tail but was otherwise okay. We had her tail amputated shortly after and she's been living in her best life with us ever since. Please love her.
I'm an equestrian so I've been loving all of the derby coverage, especially watching golden tempo come from dead last around the first turn of the race to winning the whole thing. But I absolutely love that being a jockey is a bada** short people's job. Men or women, not many of them are over 5'8, most being around 5'0-5'4 or so.
I always wanted to be a jockey and I would have been good at it, but I never got the opportunity to get into racing and I'm a little too old now (😭).
It's fun to watch short people doing amazing things 😊
So about 11 days ago I started having diarrhea and cramping out of the blue. I had c diff almost exactly a year ago after a course of antibiotics. Dificid was a miracle worker and I haven't had any issues since.
My GI ordered the "GI detect - comprehensive" kit for me to check for a bunch of things. One of the items on the list it tests for says "clostridium difficile toxin A/B". This is the EIA test, right? The one that will show an active infection?
Thanks
Hi friends,
Last year around this time I developed c diff from a course of antibiotics I took. It took me several weeks to get tested and get the antibiotics approved by my insurance. It was a *rough* few weeks, but once I started the antibiotics I recovered quickly. I haven't even thought about my bowel movements since. I moved on with my life.
Exactly a week ago, I developed severe abdominal cramping that went away after about 30 minutes. I thought I ate something bad, but since then, my poops have been *off*. TMI ahead: they're still formed poop snakes, but they're much softer, I'm going more frequently (2-3x/day rather than once), not fully emptying, I'm gassy, and I have mild abdominal cramping. This doesn't feel like my c diff did. With c diff, I was pooping liquid 10-15 times per day and couldn't sleep because of the cramping.
However, because I had c diff before, now I'm kind of scared. I want to get re-tested, but because of my infection a year ago, I don't want to get a false positive and then be taking antibiotics for no reason.
Anyway, what should I do here? It's been a full 7 days of new diarrhea.