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Kevin,

 

I got my J Pouch in 1992 shortly after passing the New York and Connecticut bar exams.  Like you the stress attendant to those exams undoubtedly worsened things for me.

 

I am a practicing litigation attorney for 22 plus years now.  I have taken chronic antibiotics for 20 plus years to treat pouchitis.  I have never had CDiff, and it may be that early on I resigned myself to chronic antibiotic use and assiduously rotated antibiotics (I rotate cipro and flagyl with augmentin and xifaxin every few weeks) to prevent it.  Perhaps I am just lucky.

 

Doctors are very resistant to keeping patients on antibiotics chronically but in my case it's been of necessity (I can't get off without massive and swift pouchitis attacks that crush me within 6-8 days of going cold turkey). Probiotics cold turkey have not worked.  I take them between antibiotic dosages. But I am proof that chronic antibiotic use can be done to treat pouchitis.  My last two physicals came back with spectacular results for a man my age, which is 51.

 

I have had a stellar and enjoyable career as an attorney.  I work with a small firm of 5 attorneys so I don't work 80 hours but I work hard, I have done many trials and arbitrations and mediations, and the pouchitis has never really slowed me down, although I can keep it under control with antibiotics.

 

Once you get the C.diff under control develop a good strategy to control pouchitis and you can live with it and practice law with it.  I have done it for over 20 years.

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