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I have always responded to cipro and flagyl to clear up pouchitis and have been taking Align as well. In terms of the C. diff, I have recently been taking VSL#3 and Florastor with my vanco and they seem to be helping. Here is a link about Ohio hospitals (including the Cleveland Clinic) doing the fecal transplant procedure, which suggests that the cost and effectiveness of the procedure can be preferable to continued rounds of antibiotics.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro...itals_now_perfo.html

 

Here is another from the Mayo Clinic that claims the procedure is "Quick, inexpensive and a 90 percent cure rate."

 

http://www.mayoclinic.org/medi...90-percent-cure-rate

 

Reading articles like these it's hard to not get excited about this procedure, although I am trying to not get my hopes unrealistically too high for a relatively new procedure. Still, that is a pretty bold claim for the Mayo Clinic to publish on its website and it seems like it wouldn't make such a claim unless it was seeing good results. It seems like doctors were more skeptical of this procedure in the past (and rightfully so), but as more and more hospitals and studies are reporting positive results, the medical community seems to be changing its tune.

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