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Me. I got fired a year ago January after being out for a month. It took that long with a bad sinus infection and undiagnosed allergies before my doc was willing

Me. I got fired a year ago January after being out for a month. It took that long with a bad sinus infection and undiagnosed allergies before my doc was willing to prescribe antibiotics due to having previously had c diff, which is a fungus that you apparently cant completely get rid of. C diff also apparently can resurge when on antibiotics. I worked from home during that time, but I was pretty sick. Just as well, my commute sucked (1-2 hours). Our health insurance sucked. $13k deductible, no vision or dental. I had interviews the very next week, 2 offers within 3 weeks. Higher salary, way better insurance and a 15 minute commute. Edit: yes, I'm in the US

mrob 7y ago
Clostridioides difficile is a bacterium, not a fungus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridioides_difficile_(bacteria) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridioides_difficile_(bact...
- hermitdev 7y ago
  Then I was misinformed by my doctors...
  - tylerl 7y ago
    Probably just misunderstood; what you said is a mixed up jumble of bits of actual facts. C.diff is something that you always have some of (you'll never be rid of it, nobody is), but it usually gets out-competed by other bacteria. But it's exceptionally hard to kill partly because it can form tough spores that go dormant. So if you take powerful antibiotics, there's a good chance that all that'll be left is the c.diff, which gets problematic when there's a lot of it. Fungus is similar in the sense that bacteria compete with it, so killing the bacteria leaves you vulnerable to fungus as well. This is precisely why you're supposed eat probiotics during certain kinds of treatments. People talk about "healthy gut flora" or whatever like its a new age alternative medicine, but really you just need a ton of different kinds of benign bacteria filling the space so that no particular one strain of pathogen gets enough critical mass to have an effect.

mrob 7y ago

Clostridioides difficile is a bacterium, not a fungus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridioides_difficile_(bacteria) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridioides_difficile_(bact...

hermitdev 7y ago
Then I was misinformed by my doctors...
- tylerl 7y ago
  Probably just misunderstood; what you said is a mixed up jumble of bits of actual facts. C.diff is something that you always have some of (you'll never be rid of it, nobody is), but it usually gets out-competed by other bacteria. But it's exceptionally hard to kill partly because it can form tough spores that go dormant. So if you take powerful antibiotics, there's a good chance that all that'll be left is the c.diff, which gets problematic when there's a lot of it. Fungus is similar in the sense that bacteria compete with it, so killing the bacteria leaves you vulnerable to fungus as well. This is precisely why you're supposed eat probiotics during certain kinds of treatments. People talk about "healthy gut flora" or whatever like its a new age alternative medicine, but really you just need a ton of different kinds of benign bacteria filling the space so that no particular one strain of pathogen gets enough critical mass to have an effect.