Bacterial Infection
"I have been battling a C diff infection for a couple months now.  I tried a 10 day (500mg x3) course of Flagyl which didn&#039;t seem to help much. The Flagyl seemed to increase my nausea while only slightly reducing the waves of stomach pain and didn&#039;t seem to improve the diarrhea much at all. A couple days after ending the Flagyl, I was experiencing the worst symptoms of C diff.  I immediately went on Vancomycin.  I just finished a 14 day course (500mgx4) of Vancomycin yesterday, which seems to have cleared up the symptoms.  Vancomycin is extremely expensive (my portion was nearly $2k after insurance picked up the bulk of the cost), but after Flagyl failed, I was glad the Vancomycin seems to have worked with no noticeable side effects."