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100% WORKING TREATMENT for my IBS!

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maurice74943
maurice74943

100% WORKING TREATMENT for my IBS!

Hi, I am writing this to try to help everybody that I can because I have been on the same boat as you guys and gone through this living hell for 3 years!!!  Short description about my previous case was that I could almost eat nothing, only eat what is normally designated for IBS menu, I was always feeling that I had to go to the Bathroom, I would have IBS-D attacks daily, even taking a lot of Imodium would not work totally, painful bowel cramps, the whole works… I could go on with the list…but you guys already know what are the symptoms from personal experience.

Doctors give this autoimmune disease the name of IBS because they are totally clueless of why this happens, so they just grab all the symptoms and put them in one bag calling it IBS… to me it is just the doctors another way of saying they are clueless but they don´t want to show it to us so they won´t look bad.

Dr. Pimentel who has come up with the theory about SIBO is the cause makes me think that he is correct, this is the only one doctor that had a clue.

Now for the Treatment that I used daily :

From 10 gram to 30 grams of L-Glutamine, to repair the damaged intestinal mucosa and lining. Repairing this will block big food particles from entering the blood stream directly due to the holes in the intestinal lining cause by the bad bacteria.

 12 billion Probiotic daily at least, start by using the 50 billion probiotic and then after seeing results you may try to decrease to cheaper probiotics, but don´t go below 10 billion.

Using the SIBO treatment first if desired:

Use Xifaxan ( Rifaximin) antibiotic to wipe out the bad bacteria but this will also wipe out the good bacteria ( check for Dr. Pimentel’s SIBO treatment). While you are doing this, I advise you to take probiotics daily to compensate the bacterial slaughter in the intestines. You can also start L-Glutamine ate the same time to repair the intestinal mucosa and Lining.

After the Xifaxan Treatment, keep on taking the heavy duty 50 billion probiotic daily and glutamine. After getting better, you may try to change the dosages of L-Glutamine and Probiotics and see how you adapt to lower dosages to try to save money.

Since many if not all IBS people are prone to getting E.Coli overgrowth again, you will have to keep on taking L-Glutamine and Probiotics for the rest of your life. I am on this treatment for 1 year and now I eat Pizza, Junk food, Spicy food, drink sodas and Coca-Colas and am totally normal as I was before. I will not say I am cured because it must be an auto-immune disease, but you may keep it in check and be 100% normal by just taking this for the rest of you days ( L-Glutamine and Probiotics).

I have tried previously all know medications for IBS, Antidepressants, anxiolytics , antispasmodics, tried acupuncture, etc. and I was only 30% better, because this medicines do not fix the problem, the just drug your gut to numbness…

This treatment will take around 6 months to reach 100% improvement, but you will notice improvements after 2 months, so be patient.

Good Luck to all and may god help you!

 

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  • ironandwine
    ironandwine maurice74943

    Posted

    Hello everybody.. I would be so very grateful if anybody could help me. I have had what seems to be IBSD for many years. Due to an unkown issue in my bowel I was put on immodium in 2002 and took them almost daily until this summer. During this time my stool behaviour has severely detiriorated to now very regular D. I am now in the process of using both diet and as natural as possible medication to turn my stomach back round to a normal environment. VSL3 is kind of working but not enough. I have been on this now for 5/6 weeks. Ive heard about Symprove and now this L-Glutamine and probiotics through this forum. So very grateful for this info. Whats the 50 billion probiotics.. how do i obtain it ? i was told symprove is 10 billion. Does anybody have any suggestions to what I do. Ive tried a special diet but it seems to have next to no pattern and my D just arises whenever it wants.. I think its stress related too.. Ive become semi house bound and that isnt helping either.

    Any advice would be just amazing.

    Thankyou. Having gone through this.. this matter is so close to me... I would like nothing more than this IBSD or this chronic D to be cured for everybody who suffers.. Its quite extraordinary how it can effect you. 

    Best of luck to everybody here 

    x

    • amymeyer
      amymeyer ironandwine

      Posted

      Hi smile what you are going through does sound tough. Firstly I just want to point out that VSL#3 is a strong probiotic that contains 450 billion bacteria per sachet - if you're taking this, you're already taking over 50 billion good bacteria (and a wide variety of different types of bacteria, which is important). You're right in saying that Symprove is not as strong - it also doesn't contain as many types. This is fine if Symprove happens to have the bacteria type that helps you, but as it is difficult to find this out, VSL#3 is more likely to have one in it that might benefit you because it has more types. However, I would not suggest that you take the whole sachet of VSL#3 at once - 450 billion is a lot of bacteria to take at once (almost half a trillion) and could in itself be upsetting your gut. I started off on a quarter of a sachet per day - I think taking this approach and seeing how you go is sensible.

      L-Glutamine is something I have not yet used, but from the sounds of other IBS-D sufferers on here, it definitely sounds like something worth trying for you. Years of IBS-D or any other gut condition takes its toll - just to be sure, have you been tested for other gut diseases?

      Have you also been tested for C. Difficile? This a type of bacteria that can flourish in the gut if you've been on a lot of antibiotics, and gives people the symptoms you are describing.

      Also what diets have you tried?

      The psychological effects of IBS are really under-estimated by doctors. After years of this it is important to take care of yourself mentally too - people on this forum will support you, but it may also be worth looking into other forms of support if you feel isolated, if at all possible.

    • n0am
      n0am ironandwine

      Posted

      Dear Ironandwine,

      I've also been suffering & trying to cut a long story short, the docs weren't the best at helping, I just don't think they actually are 'allowed' enough time per patient & also if it doesn't fit in with medicines they're 'allowed' to prescribe then ho hum! Anyway after getting a few tests done & getting the ok (which of course is good news) I still needed to get to the bottom of why I seem to be spending a large chunk of my time in the toilet & feeling so uncomfortable a lot of the time.

      So far I've cut out dairy 99% also gluten/wheat 98/98% and then I took Symprove (which I heard of through this forum) for 3 months as directed, amazingly I improved about 90/97%, I'm not sure if it is because of the diet change or because of the symprove, but I'm too scared to find out. Once I'd had Symprove for 3 months I then had a gap & then ordered some VSL3 which was expensive & hard to get! Anyway I then took that for 30 days, whilst keeping away from bread/dairy etc, although as I've improved I will have the odd slice of pizza with the kids.

      Where am I now? Well I take VSL3 every 3 or four days now but I think what Amymeyer said is a good idea & I'm going to start taking may be a 1/4 or 1/2 every couple of days, I've also bought some Glutamine (the health food shop told me it's the same as L-Glutamine?) I haven't started taking that yet but will be soon, & will report back after a month or so.

      I'm now about 98/99% better which is great but I don't actually know what's helped, if taking the Glutamine gets me to 100% I will be so happy, but will continue to keep taking VSL/Symprove & Glutamine, it feels like the probiotics have helped heal my gut.

      I must admit though whilst I was just taking symprove my stools were solid and about a foot long, which was luxury, but again I don't know if this was down to the Symprove as they're not that great now. Good luck with this horrible condition that only working it out ourselves seems to be the only help as I'm sorry to say the Drs have basically been rubbish sad

    • ironandwine
      ironandwine n0am

      Posted

      Thank you so much for your insight.. I guess we all help each other with knowledge. Vsl3 is working for me a bit.. But I've changed my diet too and rarely eat anything after 8/8:30.

      I think routine is a big key.. I would be looking for harder longer stools if I'm honest.

      I'll let you know how vsl3 pans out after 3 months.

      I basically need to bind myself as much as possible 

      Thank you.. The very best of luck t you and my heart goes out to at sufferers. It's an awful condition.. But it looks like there's answers if we look hard enough 

      Thanks

      Xx

    • lgb81
      lgb81 n0am

      Posted

      Symprove!  Thats right , I was talking to a guy that took this ages ago who swore by it.....

      Im tempted to try it if what im doing doesn't improve after 6 months.

      Anyone else tried it in here?

    • lgb81
      lgb81 n0am

      Posted

      Here we go! , ill see if I can find him again and get an update...He seems more trustworhty than most and he also is in New Zealand , so im pretty sure hes not a share holder neutral

      pukekonz has replied to a personal conversation entitled "PHLOE".

      pukekonz said:didn't end up working for me.  In the end I got on Symprove.  About 5 weeks into Symprove my post infectious IBS of 2yrs ended.  I am 110% cured and back to normal.  I'll be posting a big blog story about it soon.  Absolutely incredible product that has given me my life back, truly unbelievable what it did to me.  I went from major problems to better to completely normal.  I still have 5 weeks of the course left.  It's not cheap but I swear if it were $1,000 a bottle I would buy it!  Can't put a price on being normal again.

    • n0am
      n0am lgb81

      Posted

      Thanks for that Igb81, it's really promising to know that there is some light at the end of the tunnel. One thing I'm thinking is, I was also so much better when on Symprove, but I 'moved' to VSL3 because it's even stronger, so once the 30 days supply I have (which I'm going to take over 60 or so days) runs out & I'm not almost 100% I may go back to Symprove as may that's got something in that VSL hasn't? It's so hard to work out, because it's not like a headache you take a tablet & it either works or doesn't, it takes weeks/months for us to know if a product is going to work. Good luck to all of you, and thanks for the helpful updates smile
    • SARY
      SARY lgb81

      Posted

      Where can we buy SYMPROVE in the USA?
    • lgb81
      lgb81 SARY

      Posted

      Thats the problem , they don't have any suppliers anywhere that I know of.

      Its 160 pounds for the 3 month thing and they said they would ship it to me for 90 pounds. In NZ dollars thats about $500!!! So thats there MAJOR problem.............

    • SARY
      SARY lgb81

      Posted

      Thanks for ur immediate reply.I live in USA. I am interested to buy that.I have seen so many good reviews regarding that.

      I have mild gastritis(mild inflammation).I am suffering from almost 15 months. Where did you buy that. I have 2 small kids. I am really in frustrated stage. Can you pl give me the deails?

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 ironandwine

      Posted

      Hi, everybody is giving great advice so I have nothing to add. But I just want to refer that you say that you have been on VSL3 for 5/6 weeks and that it is kind of working but not enough. This treatment is a long process of healing and it will take time to get results, some people may take longer and others less. Just hang on there and give it a try for a couple of months, I took months to get the results.

      You can always check with the Doctor if you can take Xifaxan to speed up the process of killing off the bad bacteria in the guts. It is your choice to take it or not. I have had a case in the past that I took one brand of probiotics and my bowels were not ok with it and had “D”, I do not know if it was the dosage or something else in it, but meaning that maybe trying different brands of probiotics until you find the one that your bowels adapt to would maybe better. Or just try to do what has been said about reducing the VSL3 dosage and then ramp it up after when your body starts getting ok with it. Good Luck smile

  • siham68044
    siham68044 maurice74943

    Posted

    Hello Maurice

    Please I'd like to ask you :

    - If you applied the FODMAP Diet or any other one, while on the treatment

    - and why did you exactly call it an Auto-Immune disease

    I'm a 21 year old Female who has been suffering with IBS for 3 years now and since doctors here in north Africa aren't aware of any new updates I had to do researches myself and ended up collecting infos that led me to SIBO and I'm just so Thankful for sharing your method, Bless You .

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 siham68044

      Posted

      Hi smile

      Sorry for the late reply. I did not do the FODMAP, never did, I only kept track of my trigger foods.

      I call it an auto-immune disease because that is what one of my previous doctors told me, unless he is wrong, I do not know , I am no doctor wink

      Good Luck smile

  • ned7744
    ned7744 maurice74943

    Posted

    Diet seems to be very important.

    I took VSL for months, cost me a fortune! It did help, but never cured my bowel issues. Everything I tried helped, but nothing cured it.

    Over the past 2 months I've stopped all the probiotics, l glutamine... Etc and focused purely on my diet and have pretty much identified exactly what causes my ibs and have pretty much cured it.

    8 weeks ago I stopped drinking coffee and fizzy drink and stayed on my normal diet for about 3-4 weeks. Once my guts were stable I experimented with eating excessively my trigger foods to see how I reacted. I cut 1 thing out at a time and narrowed it down to gluten. Started a 100% gluten free diet around 4 weeks ago and within 6 days had normal stools and my stomach has been processing and digesting correctly. I've not had any bad ibs symptoms. I've kept gluten free and tried re introducing coffee, fizzy drinks etc and now know that caffine causes my constipation and stools to be really hard, this is why every couple of weeks is get 'bypass diahrrea' and kept going round in this frustrating cycle. I know gluten causes the major symptoms such as the really smelly gas and diahrrea. If I drink water, eat gluten free and eat veg etc I'm fine. It's taken me 4-5 years to get this far.

    I tried re introducing prebiotics and probiotics... It didn't work apart from make me feel sick and gave me loads of gas. I think the body must get to the point where the VSL etc just isn't needed and can actually cause more problems.

    Other things I've noticed from quitting gluten is me having loads more energy, my moods are better, my anxiety has reduced lots, I go regular to the toilet with no sudden rushes, the bad smells have gone, heartburn and indigestion has gone. 

    All I'm saying here is to maybe looks at diet aswell as the probiotics etc.

    • amymeyer
      amymeyer ned7744

      Posted

      The reason diet affects people with IBS differently is because IBS is not a singular condition. From the sounds of it, what causes your IBS is not a bacterial overgrowth like it is for others on this thread, which is why diet was such an important thing for you - it cut out your personal triggers. However, I can say from experience that even the most extreme diet cannot cure SIBO completely unless you basically starve yourself - the bacteria just eat whatever you eat, and trying to cut out anything they could possibly feed on is basically impossible. I tried to do this for 3 months and it had no effect. In a way this is good news for you - you've sussed it out! But unfortunately that does not mean that diet fixes all IBS, sadly. It would be nice if it did.
    • ned7744
      ned7744 amymeyer

      Posted

      I agree with you totally. I'm not suggesting that all is needed to fix ibs is diet change.

      My point is this... Taking probiotics and prebiotics can be helpful, but diet is important aswell. A healthy balanced diet will help you, or at least speed up recovery.

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 ned7744

      Posted

      Hi, just want to refer about my case that I started to improve after 2 months slowly and it took me around half a year to get 100% normal. Some people may take less others may take more time, it all depends on their bodies time response and genetic time frame healing. I read below some are already acheiving results in 4 weeks were it took me double. About the expensive probiotics, try cheaper probiotics like I did if money is an issue, it will just take longer to heal but that way you save money. Good luck smile

       

    • hope4cure
      hope4cure maurice74943

      Posted

      I find that in my case I have become allergic to many antibiotics. I must pre-medicate thru any surgery or dental proceedure. I must take Diflucan with ant anti biotic. in order to not have all the bacteria killed off by antibiotics. 

      Otherwise the gut is left with only yeast and then yeast infections set in. 

      So I'm not to sure it's good for everyone to take antibiotics. I take L-Glutamine recommended to me by my doc. Also eat yogurt every day.

      Always be sure u check with UR doc if starting any supplement that it will be ok with other meds UR takining.

    • hope4cure
      hope4cure amymeyer

      Posted

      Excellent point.. Very true IBS is a tricky condiction to pin down treatment is different for everyone in most cases.

      What works for one may not for others there's to many variables in this disease.

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