No assumptions. You need to nuke your gut, and I’m not referencing antibiotics alone (which were useless in my Candida regimen).
The irony is that you must know the difference between C. Diff effects and the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (JHR), or ‘Herxheimer’ reaction (aka ‘herxing’). To state that it’s unpleasant would be an understatement. In short, eradication of a gut pathogen elicits toxic effects which must be modulated to prevent further injury (and/or unpleasantness).
Probiotics are useless in the presence of helminthic (parasitic worms), and/or spirochete (parasitic bacterium) pathogens.
If I eradicated Candida (one primary motivation for my books and, yes, absolutely!), you can eradicate Clostridium difficile (C. Diff). Doctors don’t know jack. C. Diff should be a cakewalk compared to my systemic candidiasis (my 30 years-fungus infected toenails fell off within 12 months of my success; I previously thought athlete’s foot was a hygiene problem/normal), which occurred during the 2-year process.
This paper affords you all the research material you need:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC118062/
I recommend hooking up with a Naturopath (ND) to guide you due to very real risks between both continued infection and self-treatment. I do hope that you like garlic...
I also strongly recommend consideration of a POST-eradication Fecal microbial transplantation (FMT), once solely the realm of internet forums and youtube DIY videos.
https://www.mountsinai.org/care/gastroenterology/services/fecal-microbial-transplant
Best of health and, of course, best of luck. You’re going to need it given the current state of medicine and the literally THOUSANDS of hours of research just to facilitate my fungal eradication alone.
Well, it wasn’t an assumption. When I got the diarrhea, and it became chronic, I saw my gastroenterologist, and he had me get a stool sample and put bits of it in various tubes with liquids for testing. That was taken to a lab, and from there, the results showed I had C. Diff.