I've had my pouch for 12 years. All was fine till I had my daughter 5 years ago. Since then I've struggled with diarrhea and dehydration. Gave up gluten, virtually stopped the dairy and the sugar. Things got even worse starting August 1 and was really struggling. A couple weeks ago I had a pouch scope. My pouch looked so good, there was one tiny spot of redness and when biopsied it bled a bit. My GI told me that that could be mild pouchitis but probably wasn't causing my severe diarrhea. That same week I had a stool test and they found a bacteria called Aeromanas.

Given the bacteria in my gut and the biopsy finding of mild pouchitis I was on Cipro for a week. It was wonderful. After about a day I had formed stools that I hadn't seen in years. I felt like a million bucks. No dehydration. I got so excited that I had some dairy - cheese that weekend. Got diarrhea again. I called the dr. office and asked for a couple more days of cipro. They gave me 2 more days. The diarrhea never let up. I'm off cipro now and it's back to the old severe diarrhea.

Any advice or ideas as to what to do next? Not sure if dairy could really undo all that cipro started to do? I've had allergy tests and I'm not "allergic" to dairy and gluten but they do affect me badly. I am wondering if this is more than diet.