I had C-Difficile and it is "just a bacterial infection" and it caused me to lose 40 pounds within a month and I also had to have surgery. Body went septic. Kidneys were permanently damaged, etc. It almost killed me. All I needed to do was take a two week course of antibiotics, until it came back with a vengeance and put me about 5 minutes from death. That was 14 months ago and my stomach has still not "rebooted". It was "just a little bug" and it almost killed me in the worst of ways. It is dying of dysentery for lack of a better term and it is horrendous. Complete exhaustion, the shakes, a seizure, inability to even keep crackers down. I wished for death the second time around. The first time I was just scared to death.