I got C Diff in 2012 from an antibiotic (Clindamycin)I was rx'd after having a molar pulled. I am allergic to "cillins". My stool tests kept coming up negative and my dr just thought I was having antibiotic related diarrhea. I was told to take probiotics. At one point I had lost 11lbs in 2.5 weeks. Finally I was sent…

I just finished reading Gulp, Mary Roach's book about the alimentary canal, and the chapter about this procedure was easily the most interesting in the book. It seems gross, but it's an incredibly simple procedure with a very high success rate.

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…