Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment

I've been looking for relief from abdominal pain, bloating, poorly formed movements, and breathing problems for well over a year now. It started right after a round of antibiotics, which strikes me as a very clear cause-and-effect situation involving some sort of microbial imbalance.

I don't think restrictive diets are a great idea, because I want to stay healthy otherwise and ultimately restore that balance, but curiously enough, I've found that wheat might be exacerbating some of these symptoms—despite eating it without issue my whole life.

No matter how neutrally and deferentially I approach doctors with this info, I'm treated like a paranoiac for merely inquiring about certain possibilities like so-called SIBO. I'm pretty sure I'd get dragged straight to the loony bin if I ever mentioned parasites.

Sorry for making this about me, but I wrote all this to say: this guy is very lucky he's a medical student. Even with similar evidence, I have a hard time believing he'd get medicine (and respect) as a single mother. The moment she whipped out slides like he did, they'd be writing an antipsychotic Rx.

>I'm treated like a paranoiac for merely inquiring about certain possibilities like so-called SIBO

Yes, as my GE dismissively smiling told me "we all would like to chug burgers like we did in our youth, wouldn't we?". So talking and describing in details doesn't help much. What helps is if you're on PPO or similar insurance, so the doctor is easy to order tests, whatever you like from like the 20-items list - CAT, genetics, ... . The tests are the key. For SIBO you may get the hydrogen breath test - it is a very simple one - and watch the numbers that the nurse will record from the machine - it will help you understand the situation better. And just like with many other GE issues, getting diagnosed is just half of the journey though. Second is getting it to treat which is again can be a long one (there is a lot of recommendations in this thread - i've tried many of them and they do improve the situation somewhat, nothing though completely solves it for me. I though found some regimen for me which so far made it almost gone. Like many describe - observe and act accordingly.) Btw, just to illustrate the complexity/interdependencies - kind of like in large enterprise software - one of the side effects of SIBO i've got is anemia, discovered accidentally by looking at blood tests results done for something else (again looking into specific numbers yourself seems to be the key as the doctors said nothing) - as SIBO impedes B12 intake, and with B12 and iron supplements i've got my physical abilities back which at the time strangely went down when i started to get tired and running out of breath somewhat quickly for no apparent reason.