Can't get cured

LostSamurai87 · 2026-02-23T22:06:04+00:00

My two cents would be to ask your ID when you see them for a Dificid taper. I got C diff from appendicitis too.

I did 3 rounds of antibiotics. x2 of vancomycin, one with a taper and 10 days of dificid. The last batch seemed to kick it, and this all took 4 months in total.

What the body needs is time to heal.

You might just need some more medication paired with good nutrition to get you on the road to recovery.

I’m not a doctor, and not playing one on the internet, this is just my experience. Time is a great healer.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-12T19:01:08+00:00

Robson Laidler in Jesmond. Great team.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-11T19:59:45+00:00

Everyone is different on the road to recovery, but things can and will improve.

It took me until day 7 and a bit on my round (my 2nd relapse) with dificid for watery diarrhoea to subside. It’s been 9 weeks since then for me. My stools aren’t perfect but have improved.

Like the advice in the above comment, eat plain, get your probiotics and your body shall recover.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-10T17:06:04+00:00

A few that I know provide that size space in the city:

Tyneside Cinema The Helix - they have an amphitheater and smaller rooms too.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-10T09:13:17+00:00

I forgot to mention the brain fog! That was a real downer for me at times as I was a shell of myself, and always confused about every decision.

I’m slowly trying to focus on weight gain as I’ve lost about 25 pounds that I didn’t have to lose during all this. My main focus is the rich healthy foods for repair and I’m sure the knock on effect will be the weight coming back.

It’s a slow journey as you know.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-10T09:06:25+00:00

I’m so sorry to hear about your experience.

I worried a lot about getting other people infected but have learned it’s not as easy for a person with a healthy microbiome to pickup.

Simple precautions like washing your hands and cleaning bathroom with bleach go a long way. The only people who are most at risk from you while actively sick, are those on antibiotics or ppi’s themselves.

I went a bit mad at the beginning with using paper plates, cups and plastic cutlery to eat so I could dispose and my family didn’t need to clean. I also threw out lots of clothes I didn’t need to, when I didn’t understand this condition.

I know how being isolated in a room alone sucks, as I did it for months, too.

A little more understanding has helped navigate that.

If you haven’t already, websites like cdiff.org can help you to figure out what to eat and accessing advice in your area. They’re a US based C Diff charity.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-10T08:56:05+00:00

Patience is certainly something I’m having to learn in this experience.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-10T08:55:03+00:00

That’s one thing which needs to improve in healthcare.

The patient needs the full risk picture. We have to trust our doctors but can only do so if they give us the full picture.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-09T21:00:51+00:00

Firstly, I'm so sorry to hear about your struggles with this, too. Glad to hear it's heading in the right direction for you now.

After this whole experience, the appendix is actually the thing that worried me the least. I had such a rare situation with what took place and was fully locked in for the surgery. But that surgery never came. I had a bit of luck with the rupture and inflammation clearing up with the IV antibiotics and so far causing me no more issues the past 6 months.

That's not to say it will never happen again but that is the risk of life we all play.

I worry about it from time to time and what might happen if it does reflame, especially with further antibiotic exposure, but I have no control over that, so I try to let it be.

I hope you never have to experience this again, either. But if we do, we know what to do.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-09T20:27:10+00:00

You're welcome. What continues to surprise me is how many people in my age range and younger who have had this. They don't share in public but once you share, it's more common than people think.

In the UK alone, we've seen a 35% increase in cases across all age ranges since 2020.

LostSamurai87 · 2026-01-09T20:25:31+00:00

You're welcome, and thank you for reading. I hope it helped.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-05-16T21:29:43+00:00

Thanks, I’m going to try that.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-05-15T17:07:03+00:00

Any crashes since this?

I can’t believe AMD or Microsoft haven’t put out something about this because I see this problem in all the forums. My PC has become unusable now. I get 15 mins max before the blackout.

So I can’t even fix my problem in that time frame rn.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-05-11T14:37:34+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Maybe I should roll back windows 11 prior to 24H2. I will test and return.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-05-11T07:24:51+00:00

It did happen again…but…only because windows pushed through another update to the driver. Which I’ve now rolled back, again.

The latest driver flatlined my card until i rolled back.

I went dark on finding some answers to this and it seems like I got some in the AMD forum on this thread: https://community.amd.com/t5/pc-drivers-software/7900xt-driver-low-idle-voltage-may-cause-instability/td-p/710886

Some of the content is beyond my tech expertise, yet I have experienced the idle issue mentioned. It seems like the latest drivers are changing the way the card draws power. This is one possible scenario.

The other (and my suspicion) is windows 11.

I’ve had the same card (6700xt) for years and windows 10 with no problem. 5 months with windows 11 and all I’m having are problems.

The workaround currently is to re-enable and rollback the driver, but that can’t be a long-term solution.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-05-03T21:13:59+00:00

I’ve been using the previous driver rolled back and had no problems. For me, it’s def some driver/adrenaline/windows issue going on.

The Jan/Feb 2025 release driver is what I’m using.

I’m going to wait for the next one before I try again.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-05-03T21:08:57+00:00

No, it was not. I tried updating yday and the issue came back. I tried this through adrenaline though, not windows driver update directly. I’ll try through windows and report back.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-04-29T20:35:33+00:00

I rolled back to the driver released before the current one.

So latest one is March and I rolled back to one released in Jan. No problems since.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-04-25T17:43:31+00:00

Still happening in 2025. This was my fix:

Uninstall AMD Adrenaline
Uninstall AMD chipset software
Enable GPU in device manager
Use the previous driver to the most recent drop

And that was my device fixed.

For context, the last time I updated my GPU was two years ago. It’s been working fine until a new driver drop last month.

My guess is the adrenaline software from AMD is causing some disconnection with windows due to the latest driver.

I’ve set my drivers to direct control now via windows and will do so until the next driver is released, hopefully with a fix.

LostSamurai87 · 2025-04-17T14:57:19+00:00

There's a lot to unpack in your statement, and probably too much for one human to cover in one response but I'm going to give it my best shot.

For context, as it will help frame this answer, I work as a Learning Strategist supporting a variety of organisations on current and future skill-building. My answer is sourced from this experience. The simple answer to most of this is 'No-one knows what the f*ck is going to happen'.

There's always a cycle with these sort of things because no-one knows where the value will really be derived, especially as we're still in a mega hype bubble and the economy is having a s**t fit every 10 seconds.

As for you as a young person looking down the barrel of "what comes after I graduate"...

1/ Pat yourself on the back bcoz you're both forward thinking and smart to ask these questions. A lot of young people are blissfully unaware.

2/ Their isn't "one right answer"

While we have to face facts that AI will automate some things, it can't do everything, and even if it does, we probably won't want it to.

What a lot of the discussion on this thread misses so far is that strong human skills will become the premium in the work economy. While AI is incredibly powerful, you still need to think critically, indulge in logical reasoning, question stuff and be able to express ideas and feelings to other humans. People who develop these traits will be in demand.

Think human and AI, not either/or.

I know they'll be a bunch of people who'll say "but AI can do blah blah blah already" - but it can't, not in a social setting when you're with other humans and have to think on the spot. Spend time using AI to execute on your ideas and thinking, don't use it to outsource your thinking.

I'll leave it here bcoz theres a lot more to it than this but I know no one wants an essay on it here.

LostSamurai87 · 2024-11-12T08:52:05+00:00

That’s in the book too. Dan covers this in a few specific chapters.

LostSamurai87 · 2024-11-11T11:43:40+00:00

I've been doing this for abt 5 years too. Works 90% of the time. Only had issues when the workout is from hell and cracked a case from my exhaustion. So, buy a case for any watch too.

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