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poll on rifaximin

rifaximin or other gut antibiotics, how did they work for you

  • improved and the effects lasted

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • improved but the effects wore off

    Votes: 5 83.3%
  • no change

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • initially worse and then improved

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I just felt worse

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    6
Messages
59
I just started Rifaximin and it feels great, but searching on this forum i found that many say that the effects wear off... there were about 100 pages of posts on this and many that were slightly off topic so i decided to make a poll, but i am not really sure how to do this, i want a poll with the question how has rifaximin or similar antibiotics for the gut worked for you
1. Improved and effects lasted
2. Improved but effects wore off
3. No change
4. Worse initially but then improvement
5. i felt worse
 

Timaca

Senior Member
Messages
792
I took a two week course of rifaximin after taking a two week course of oral vancomycin. I was trying to get rid of C. difficile which I had suffered with for 11 long months. I had taken lots of treatment for that problem and nothing had worked. The "rifaximin" chaser worked and I am so grateful: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/744157

I took the rifaximin for a specific reason (to get rid of C. difficile). It worked for me, and I am so grateful to God that it did.

Best, Timaca
 

nanonug

Senior Member
Messages
1,709
Location
Virginia, USA
Xifaxan worked for me but the effects did wear off.

The problem, in my opinion, is that Xifaxan is addressing a symptom instead of a cause: either severe gut dysbiosis or some kind of bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine. Normalizing colon flora or small intestine motility are probably the two things that would solve the problem once and for all. I am not exactly sure how to successfully address either of these, though.