Will IV antibiotics lesson the effect on the stomach and intestines?

Normally when I take oral antibiotics I get extremely constipated, however this time I have diarrhea, abdominal cramping, sharp, burning pains, and it burns when I have a bowel movement. I started taking calcium magnesium citrate a little over a month ago and that stopped my usual constipation (I used to go about once a week). Everything was great until I just started two antibiotics (can't remember the names right now) about five days ago. Now today my stomach is aweful! I have considered IV antibiotics in the past because of my constipation issues, and now that I am having the opposite problem I am reconsidering. I am going to give it some more time to see if I just need an adjustment period, but man was today bad! I also had terrible gas that smelled awful. I could barely tolerate these pains and embarrasing symptoms today! I need a break!

I am taking two different types of probiotics and two antibiotics. I honestly don't know much about C-diff. I think a lot of it is stress too, but usually when I am stressed I get constipated. I don't know, it just has not been a good week. Part of it might be from exhaustion.

twinmkm

As Traveler mentioned, GI issues are THE reason I have an IV port. If you're already having severe issues while taking abx, they are not going to get any better. And the main risk with this is that 70% of your immune system IS your gut, and damage to your gut makes it difficult for it to absorb/process everything you need to stay alive (proper nutrition, supplements, meds, etc.) So with a fractured digestive system, lyme treatment is in some ways futile.

And the problems caused by the abx taken with a challenged and likely already damaged GI is that you will very quickly start a domino effect that is very, VERY difficult to deal with during treatment or while you are very ill from the lyme & coinfections.

If I were you, I would halt treatment immediately and start healing your gut as much as you can while you seek information about IV abx treatment. It will take awhile to talk to your LLMD about it, get approvals from insurance, make a decision about PICC line or a port, figure out the pharmacy source for infusions, etc. And you can use this time to help you get things back on track so that when your'e ready to resume the lyme tx you will be able to tolerate it and get more benefit out of it.

Hope this helps—please let me know if you have other q's.

-p