Question: Hello. Just last week I was taking Cephalexin 3 times daily to treat an abscess. After about 6 days the abscess subsided, but early Friday morning I started having diarrhea. I experiences that and gas pains until around 1 that day. Then, I started feeling extremely nauseous. I contacted my doctor and she just advised me to stop taking the antibiotic (I only had 2 out of the 21 pills I was supposed to take left) and that everything should be okay in a couple of days. Well, I ended up going to urgent care later that night because the nausea was unbearable to me. The doctor there also suggested that I stop taking it, gave me an anti-nausea medication, said I would be okay the next day but said that if the diarrhea persists to get a probiotic supplement. I did feel better on Saturday. No nausea, regular appetite, minor gas pains but I didn't have diarrhea once. However, the diarrhea came back on Sunday morning. I did take a probiotic that morning. On Monday, my diarrhea was a little bit more frequent, pretty much having to go after meals. Instead of taking the probiotic supplement, I ate some yogurt and ate plain sourdough bread. Yesterday I drank kefir, ate sourdough bread a banana and took a probiotic supplement in the afternoon. Today I still have diarrhea but it has been pretty minimal. And it seems to be getting more solid like. I did have 4 Oreos today...my question is I did have some dark looking (close to black) diarrhea just now. Could this be because of the Oreos I ate today?

Thank you for this. It looks like my diarrhea has lightened up now, no longer looking the black color. I am now just concerned with making the diarrheago away. This will technically be the 6th day that i have had it. Ive been trying to add probiotic foods to my diet and i took a probiotic supplement on Sunday and Tuesday. Can I get specific suggestions about how to improve my flora more quickly? Maybe a specific probiotic suggestion knowing this was caused by antibiotic?