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Re:Faecal transplant effectively treats recurrent or unrespo... by jacobkg on Friday November 24, 2017 @10:30AM (#15771339)
I have had C Diff. It is extraordinarily unpleasant. In addition to the normal symptoms it also came with extreme fatigue and a weird sense of doom about the future. The antibiotics need to be taken every 6 hours (limiting your ability to sleep) and gave me really creepy dreams. Being stuck with recurrent C Diff sounds miserable and I'm so glad that people in that position have a way out
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Re:Faecal transplant effectively treats recurrent or unrespo... by srednalfden on Friday November 24, 2017 @11:26AM (#15771598)
I don’t want to make you relive the dreams, but can you elaborate on “creepy”?
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Re:Faecal transplant effectively treats recurrent or unrespo... by PoachedSausage on Friday November 24, 2017 @07:45PM (#15773805)
Think of the most weird fever dream you've had and that is probably similar.

I think one of the stranger fever dream I've had was sometime in college when I was learning about complex numbers, the red standby LED on the TV in my room seemed to be a portal into the complex plane one feverish night.

Having also tried a number psychedelics, fever dreams do have quite a different quality to them.

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Re:Faecal transplant effectively treats recurrent or unrespo... by bitwize on Saturday November 25, 2017 @04:48PM (#15778179)
One time I dosed up on pseudoephedrine to help with a particularly nasty flu, fell asleep, and dreamed I was watching a disturbing cartoon. It was very slapstick and "wacky", like a Tex Avery cartoon, but something was... off about it, and it was horrifying.
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Re:Faecal transplant effectively treats recurrent or unrespo... by superb_herb on Friday November 24, 2017 @11:51AM (#15771737)
I have “creepy” dreams or nightmares that ruin restful sleep. They are exceptionally vivid and nightmarish: horrifying scenarios involving people I love, painfully realistic doomsday scenarios, all kinds of death, monsters who look like people but with horrifying deformities...
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