CathyA
2-8-16, 10:23am
Last October I had diverticulitis and was treated with Flagyl and Cipro. I actually handled it very well, considering whenever I was on antibiotics before, I always felt horrible. This time I didn't feel anything..........but then I developed a bad oral thrush, so I was on Fluconazole for 3 weeks. I felt great after all this and my bowels (in spite of my long-time IBS-D) was normal for a change. Then I had to have a follow-up colonoscopy a month later to be sure what they saw on the ct scan was indeed diverticulitis and not a malignancy. It went without any problems. He removed 4 small benign polyps......everything else looked good.
But ever since then, my bowels have been totally different...........and not in a good way. I routinely eat yogurt every day and started taking Align probiotic. My question is......There is only one type of bacteria in Align. I know the bowel has tons of different types of needed bacteria. Would it make sense to use several different types of probiotics, in hopes of getting the ones that are apparently under-populated? I was thinking of buying Culturelle too. Do you think it's that important to buy ones that need to be refrigerated?
I started doing a search on bowel problems after colonoscopies, and it's amazing how many people DO have problems afterwards. Yet my docs have never told me to use probiotics afterwards.
I did take a prescription probiotic a long time ago. Would that be even better??
I realize that the antibiotics could have injured my gut, but things were going so well up until the colonoscopy.
Funny thing........my memory isn't always so good and while I was googling bowel problems after colonoscopy, I found a post made by me on the IBS forum about the problems I was having after my last one 10 years ago!
I just wish the medical community would realize how important our guts are to our overall health and quit trying to ruin them........
I haven't gone back to see the GI doc yet. I just couldn't take him saying things like "Well, that's unusual" or "No, probiotics wouldn't help", etc., etc. So I'm trying to figure this out on my own.
Anyhow.......suggestions on the mix of probiotics?
Thanks.
But ever since then, my bowels have been totally different...........and not in a good way. I routinely eat yogurt every day and started taking Align probiotic. My question is......There is only one type of bacteria in Align. I know the bowel has tons of different types of needed bacteria. Would it make sense to use several different types of probiotics, in hopes of getting the ones that are apparently under-populated? I was thinking of buying Culturelle too. Do you think it's that important to buy ones that need to be refrigerated?
I started doing a search on bowel problems after colonoscopies, and it's amazing how many people DO have problems afterwards. Yet my docs have never told me to use probiotics afterwards.
I did take a prescription probiotic a long time ago. Would that be even better??
I realize that the antibiotics could have injured my gut, but things were going so well up until the colonoscopy.
Funny thing........my memory isn't always so good and while I was googling bowel problems after colonoscopy, I found a post made by me on the IBS forum about the problems I was having after my last one 10 years ago!
I just wish the medical community would realize how important our guts are to our overall health and quit trying to ruin them........
I haven't gone back to see the GI doc yet. I just couldn't take him saying things like "Well, that's unusual" or "No, probiotics wouldn't help", etc., etc. So I'm trying to figure this out on my own.
Anyhow.......suggestions on the mix of probiotics?
Thanks.