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The implants haven't worked for me and my health has deteriorated back to
where it was before I started (18 months ago). I am going to go through the
whole antibiotic/infusion process again I hope, just waiting on a consult with
the Centre for Digestive Diseases to reassess my case. I understand that
clostridia can leave spores. Now whether this is a relavitely new finding I
don't know but I was told this only recently and I think that is what has
happend, that there were spores remaining and now I have once again an
overgrowth of clostridia. It is possibly a different strain because I never had
constiptation before and reading from their web page on constipation they
attribute some cases to clostridia but they haven't yet identified the organism,
they just suspect clostridia.
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> Actually, I am not happy with the full treatment I received as there was no
follow up, or checking to see if the implants were thriving or failed. I am not
very happy about this aspect at all.
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> Also they never suggested FOS or any other probiotic or yeasts, I don't think
Prof Borody has seen evidence that they adhere to the gut lining.Although I
think this could also be why the donor stool treatment did not work because I
don't have any yeast from stool analysis done at another lab. I think the yeast
do help the good flora adhere to the gut lining as you also suspect