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jim-jim-jim ◴[] No.41856061[source]
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.

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davzie ◴[] No.41856440[source]
I also went through this for 6 years.

A guy on YouTube will help called Pain Free You. Recent studies suggest bad bacteria can continue to flourish if we are chronically stressed (which symptoms like this easily cause). Huge correlation between stress and flare ups for me.

In the short term whilst you work on the mind-body aspect, I recommend taking Digestive Enzymes with each meal along with a Betain HCL + Pepsin supplement. These are the only supplements that removed my symptoms (and trust me I’ve tried them all). They work by ensuring you have the right level of stomach acid to properly digest food, proteins, carbs and fats so that by the time it hits your digestive tract, there’s less undigested FODMAPs for the bacteria to feed off of.

There IS a light at the end of the tunnel.

Happy to chat about this and what I use since I know this can be hard to go through davzie at davzie dot com.

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sersi ◴[] No.41857220[source]
Which brand did you end up using for the enzymes and supplement? It's my understanding that there's sometimes significant differences between brands because it's unregulated so I'm curious about the ones that did work for you.

I've been diagnosed with IBS for 10 years but that's hardly any help, I did notice that reducing fat and reducing wheat seems to help with my symptoms. I've tried a lot of different probiotics but they've been no help so far

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1. jtc331 ◴[] No.41865444{3}[source]
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41865429