e-coli infection and leaky gut

[Barry]

The problem is that it can be very difficult to know when the infection has been cleared.

I hadn't appreciated this. When I have (relatively often) had to go into hospital with cellulitis, they seem to take the "Victorian engineering" approach, and wait until things look to have sorted themselves out but then just keep filling me full of antibiotics for a while afterwords anyway, just to be sure. I thought that was why you had to keep taking antibiotics well after the symptoms (and maybe biomarkers?) disappeared. Is that not always the case then?

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

I thought that was why you had to keep taking antibiotics well after the symptoms (and maybe biomarkers?) disappeared.

Yes, symptom clearance is no guarantee of bacterial clearance with an abscess so treatment needs to continue. The problem is in knowing how long for. And long courses of powerful antibiotics have potential complications like pseudomembranous colitis. So it is a difficult judgment.

 

[Milo]

Sending my best wishes @Graham , i hope your medical team gets to the bottom of your problem

 

[It's M.E. Linda]

Thank you for letting us know @MEMarge.

I echo the above, please pass our very best wishes onto him and his family, if you are able to. Let them know that we are all thinking of him and hoping the hospital can sort his problem out quickly. Thank you.

 

[MeSci]

Just want to add my good wishes to @Graham, and hope fervently that his illness is sorted out very soon and effectively.

 

[Sean]

Hugs for Graham and family

 

[MEMarge]

I think Graham should be asked before anyone starts contacting other doctors.

His wife Kathy emailed me asking about Prof Carding, but I explained that he was an academic, not clinician.

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I will pass it on with love and Best Wishes from us at S4ME.

Fortunately there are a couple of people from the group, who live nearby and are able to drop off things he needs etc.
Although I am part of the group I actually live about an hour away! Such is the attraction of Graham and the rest of them.

 

[Daisybell]

Thinking of you @Graham and sending you every good wish... i hope you are doing better....

 

[Barry]

Thinking of you @Graham and sending you every good wish... i hope you are doing better....

Very much so.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Yes, I was thinking the same as we got dinner together. Very best wishes for Graham.

 

[JemPD]

So very sorry to hear this news about @Graham Sending you very best wishes for a swift recovery Graham, I do hope they are looking after you well, my heart goes out to you

 

[mango]

I, too, am keeping good thoughts for you @Graham

 

[AliceLily]

Thinking of you too @Graham Hugs.

 

[Amw66]

Thinking of you @Graham and family. Sending all the positivity I can muster.

 

[Nellie]

 

[Graham]

Thanks all for the support. I got back home yesterday afternoon. Will post properly when I start to pick up! Finally getting some treatment that makes sense.

 

[Sean]

 

[2kidswithME]

Hugs and prayers, @Graham . You bring so much good cheer and logical thinking to this group.

 

[Midnattsol]

 

[MeSci]

Thanks all for the support. I got back home yesterday afternoon. Will post properly when I start to pick up! Finally getting some treatment that makes sense.

Thank goodness! I've been really worried about you.