A couple of years ago, I was scheduled to have 2 back surgeries. As part of the hospital's surgical protocol, I had a nasal swab which diagnosed me as a MRSA carrier. It took 4 months of antibiotic treatment to eliminate the MRSA. Had this nasal swab not been completed, I most likely would have died from the surgery. The MRSA cells would have colonize around the installed hardware used in the neck surgery. After the second low back surgery, I remained in the hospital for 11 nights. I was running a fever which they could not determine the cause. They threw many different antibiotics at me which finally worked. Eighteen months later I was allowed to resume my Rheumatoid arthritis treatment of Remicade chemo-therapy. The goal of any RA chemical treatment is to slow down your immune system in order that your body does not over react. Fast forward to a year later. I suffered several leg wounds that became severely infected naturally requiring several rounds of various antibiotics. What I had done over these couple years was to create a perfect storm (over use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for my RA reducing my body's natural immune system response) for the bacteria Clostridium Difficile to come on in! I had heard of MRSA, but never Clostridium Difficile. In all my 63 years, I never felt as close death as I did with this bacterium. For six weeks, I was flat on my back as numerous tests were run. The first day I started with the C Diff diarrhea, I woke up feeling like I had been run over by a tracker trailer. I had severe brain fog and never should have left my house that day in my car. I had many different appointments which I cancelled most of them, except for an appointment with my wound nurse. I started out in the direction of her office. However, I was in a minor car accident. I had driven 50 miles from my home and had no idea how I had reached there. The police wanted me to go to the emergency room to determine if I was suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. Although I had several diarrhea accidents while in that hospital, they never tested my stool -- they focused on my 'brain fog'. I've since learned this can be another nasty side effect of C Diff. Instead I was discharged taking a $150 cab fare ride to get home. For the next 7 days, I sat on the toilet at home without a car suffering severe diarrhea. Fortunately, I had a wonderful neighbor that took me to my Group Health's Urgent Care located 30 miles away. There they took a stool sample right away and diagnosed C Diff 48 hours later. I was first given a 10 day course of the antibiotic Flagyl (metronidazole). A week later after completing the course of Flagyl, the diarrhea still stayed consistent. My doctor then placed me a 10 day course of Vancomycin (far better than the Flagyl ~ ask for it if you can). It is still a bumpy road since completing the Vancomycin. My doctor is trying to keep me off all antibiotics while my body tries to figure out how to fight on its own. I firmly believe without Jarrow Formulas Saccharomyces Boulardii Plus MOS, I would not have made the progress I have experienced. I did take 6 capsules a day of this `medication' along with 3 capsules of Jarrow's regular probiotic Ultra Jarro-Dophilus 50 billion Ultra Jarro-Dophilus, 50 Billion Probiotic Organisms Per Capsule, 60 Count (Cool Ship, Pack of 3) . I now take 4 capsules of Jarrow Formulas Saccharomyces Boulardii Plus MOS a day along with 2 capsules of Ultra Jarro-Dophilus 50 billion a day. I feel so fortunate to have found these Jarrow products and the C Diff comments made by others along with my doctor's endorsement of this probiotic strain -- Saccharomyces Boulardii Plus MOS. In closing, I also discovered the proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) generic medication omeprazole was another ingredient that helped create my `perfect storm' to invite the C Diff to come on in! I no longer take omeprazole in addition to stopping the Remicade. Studies have shown a fairly strong statistical correlation between PPI use and C. difficile infection, although it's still just a correlation and not proof of direct cause and effect. Some experimental evidence suggests that PPIs may change conditions in the gut to be more favorable to C. difficile bacteria