Hi Scott, thanks for the reply. I see your diagnosis is Chron’s. Have you had to treat that separately from the pouchitis or just been able to manage with antibiotics alone?
I will do biologics if I really have to. I think I’m grappling with the reality of long-term ramifications of that. I did a short stint with them prior to surgery, and while it helped the inflammation I had a lot of side effects.
I will ask about doing a longer regiment of antibiotics, maybe at least until we do the next scope. In my experience when I did a round of antibiotics my symptoms seem to clear quickly and then return just as quickly after finishing the meds.
It might worth noting that I am breastfeeding so I will be doing Augmentin rather than Cipro. I’m not sure if there’s a big difference in efficacy but it seems Cipro is the usual choice for pouchitis.