Awesome GI After Antibiotics

[MTMartin]

For as long as I can remember (I'm 33), I have had very soft stools (not diarrhea), up to three or four times per day which an urgency that rarely allows more than 30 minutes to find a toilet.  I recently took a regiment of Amoxycillin 850 for chronic sinusitis.  The sinusitis has, as a result, been eliminated.  An additional benefit was a noticable change in motility.  While I had the expected side-effect of diarrhea a couple of times during the regiment, once completed, my stools were very well-formed, passing usually only once per day, and with less urgency.  This glorious state lasted for about a month following the antibiotic, and has since tapered off to the norm I knew beforehand.  Why did this antibiotic help me so much and what can I do to get back to that wonderful state?  Obviously, I cannot stay on antibiotics.  I have tried probiotics, which were somewhat helpful, but the results were nothing like this.

[ggreg]

I'm sorry I mischaracterized what you said, when you clearly noted it was NOT diarrhea.  Hmmmmm.  Soft and often, that's right.  But the rest of what I said remains my advice and I hope it was somewhat helpful.

[MTMartin]

To clarify:

It's not diarrhea.  Just very soft and often.  I've had diarrhea & what I deal with on a daily basis is not that.

[ggreg]

Hmmmmm.  Well, antibiotics usually dry up waste, so for you, that was a good thing.  I'm sorry, but I don't know why your waste is so watery...diarrhea can be caused by a lot of stuff, some serious and some just poor lifestyle habits, takes a doc to make a diagnosis.  Soooo, in the meantime, to make you "dry up," I suppose you could take an over-the-counter antihistimine maybe, like Benadryl, it'll dry you up, but they also make a person sleepy, so you could take it at night if that happens.  But plez visit a doc and find out how come you have a lifelong tendency to have diarrhea.  I mean, could be something as simple as you are allergic to milk or something.