I have a Jpouch and its been a little over two years , Ive been dealing with chronic pouchitis since having the surgery . My question is I was doing pretty good lately ( Im on a round of cipro and taking VSL3 ) but for the most part doing OK . I got a cold and was sick for about a week , ever since then my pouchitis has gotten so bad and i cant seam to get it under control , could my body get immune to the cipro were it just doesnt work anymore . Its been about two weeks since ive had my cold , and i feel horrible . I just constantly go to the bathroom .Any help would be greatly appreciated . Thanks
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I just recently experienced this. I was off cipro for about two months and then came down with an awful head/chest cold and sore throat and whammoo pouchitis in full force. It took about two weeks until cold cleared and about that time on cipro. I will be weaning off cipro in next week hoping the cold just pushed me back into pouchitis gear. Seems any time run down and susceptible to pouchitis, everything gets off kilter and pouch unpleasantly reacts.
Ive had to stay on cipro unfortunatly but it seems to help . But this is kicking my butt , no pun intended . Im going to call my GI and see him . But im fianlly cold free so maybe i have to be patient with the cipro . Im on the smaller of the two milligrams , Ive doubled up on them because this is so bad , im constantly fighting dehydration
Have you been on the Cipro for most of these past 2 years? If so, I would say this has little to do with the cold and that the Cipro is just not working for you anymore. If you've only just started using the Cipro or have only used it a few times, then disregard.