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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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  • winthorpe
    winthorpe maurice74943

    Posted

    Maurice,

    I'm so glad I found your post. Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us!

    I recently had stomach issues that resebled SIBO and my doctor treated me with Xifaxan. My bowel movements were regular until after I stoped taking Xifaxan. It then turned into IBS. I don't have diarrhea but rather infrequent and incomplete bowel movement along with all other symptoms - bloating, stomach pain etc.

    I definitely want to try your cure and wanted to clarify the dosage. Sometimes you say mg and sometimes grams so I wanted to double check. You mean 30 GRAMS of L-Glutamine daily? I assume it has to be in powder form right? The pills seem to come in 500mg dosage or so, which is low it seems. Any particular brand you recommend? I found  L-Glutamine Pure Powder on amazon. Looks like they recommend a scoop of 5 gram. So that would need to be taken 6 times per day. Is that how you took it?

    I appreciate your help very much!

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 winthorpe

      Posted

      Hi, I took the pills and powder form before ( now I am testing myself with only high doses of probiotics). The pills were 1 gram each so I was taking at the time 10 to 20 of them daily. The powder for is easier because you just add 2 to 4 spoons, and it is cheaper in powder form. What is important is that you take above 10 grams and below 40 grams. Above 40 grams will give you depression acording to medical websites like mayoclinic and webmd. I think 10 to 20 grams is a safe margin. About the brands, it is all the same because glutamin is just glutamin. Now on probiotics, the brands may vary the dosages and the percentage of the type of good bacterias. Good Luck smile
  • amymeyer
    amymeyer maurice74943

    Posted

    Hi, my doctor has (finally) given me antibiotics after the results of a 'strongly abnormal' breath test for SIBO came through, however I am slightly irritated that it is not Xifaxan, but Oxytetracycline, and i'm taking 4x 250mg a day for two weeks rather than three weeks. Does anyone have experience with this antibiotics rather than the one Maurice had? I hope it works just as well but am worried I'll be back to square one by the end of the treatment.

    Also, I have been on a low carb/low sugar diet for about 2 months because this has reduced the symptoms (does not feed the bacteria etc.) - does anyone know if should I continue this diet while I'm on antibiotics? I did ask my doctor but he didn't know. Same goes for my diet after the antibiotics - I have no idea how safe it is to start trying foods again.

    I'm also taking probiotics from Optibac (extra strength ones) - is there any recommendation for when to take this during antibiotic treatment? Should you avoid taking them at the same time as the antiobiotic for instance?

    Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer. I've read all sorts of things about SIBO re-occuring and being really difficult to cure and I'm really worried I will never get rid of this.

    • marey
      marey amymeyer

      Posted

      Maurice can you help amy here?

      am very concerned amy that you've resorted to anti-biotics... when you were doing so well by not feeding the sibo...and by building up your good bacteria to push out the pathogenic bacteria.

      now you'll be back to square one...but this might be an appropriate strategy? lets see what maurice advises xx

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 amymeyer

      Posted

      Hi, the info i can read about what you are taking is : Oxytetracycline was the second of the broad-spectrum tetracycline group of antibiotics to be discovered.

      Oxytetracycline works by interfering with the ability of bacteria to produce essential proteins. Without these proteins, the bacteria cannot grow, multiply and increase in numbers. Oxytetracycline therefore stops the spread of the infection and the remaining bacteria are killed by the immune system or eventually die.

      Oxytetracycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, active against a wide variety of bacteria. However, some strains of bacteria have developed resistance to this antibiotic, which has reduced its effectiveness for treating some types of infections.

      So I do not know if it is on the same level as Xifaxan, but give it a try. After the treatment try the Sibo breath test again and check if you are better, if not, tell your doctor that you want xifaxan. On your daily treatment, take your probiotics hours after the antibiotic, so that you may populate your bowels again with good bacteria after the slaughter of all bacteria with probiotics. About the low carb/sugar diet, i did not do that diet and i got cured, so I think that since you are taking antibiotics to kill the bacteria, maybe the diet is not that much needed. About the re-occuring of SIBO, I beleive that this will not happen if you just keep on taking probiotics for life to fight the bad bacteria off, you just have to think of taking the probiotics daily forever as an mantenance and precaution of not letting the bad bacteria taking over again. Good Luck smile

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943

      Posted

      *text correction from above : "On your daily treatment, take your probiotics hours after the antibiotic, so that you may populate your bowels again with good bacteria after the slaughter of all bacteria with antibiotics"
    • amymeyer
      amymeyer maurice74943

      Posted

      Thanks for the advice - in response to marey, I was not doing particularly well with the diet before taking antibiotics! But it is good to hear that someone has managed to return completely to normal.

      From what I gather, the reason that xifaxan is used is because it is not well absorbed by the body, so reaches the gut intact. The tetracyclines on the other hand are mostly absorbed in the stomach and upper intestine and work via going into the bloodstream. If they don't work I suppose I will just have to go back to the doctor. Thing is, it was such a struggle getting any doctor to listen to me or even test me for this that the thought of doing that is very anxiety-provoking. My GP surgery is awful, and really slow - it would take at least a month to get another test and prescription done.

      I am overreacting - my symptoms and general experience sound nowhere near as bad as yours have been - but the whole thing has made me very unsure. I have really appeciated this thread during this process though - doctors have consistently treated me like a hypochondriac reading crazy internet theories, but here people actually believe me!

    • marey
      marey amymeyer

      Posted

      maurice ...should amy start taking the L Glut now? Whilst simultaneously the oxytet ?  Am thinking it might help to protect her bowel wall....since autoimmunity and leaky gut can be caused by anti-biotics....infact thats a classic causation. 

      From my training I remember that oxytetracylcine as well as being a broad based anti-biotic as you say...is also the choice in incidence of penecillin allergy.

      Haven't heard of xifaxan...exciting to learn something new. Is it bacterio-static as opposed to being bacterio-cidal ?   That would explain its appropriate application.

      Since a course of anti-biots has been started Amy, as I'm sure you know, its vital to finish the course ...to prevent resistance....and tho a harsher method for you amy...am sure you will get there by this slightly different path.  Will be rooting for you and excited to know how you'll get on. Sending healing thoughts your way.

      Great plan to maintain probiotics as maurice advises ..and to take as widely apart from the anti-biots as poss. This will give the good bacteria a foothold and effectively assist with crowding out the pathogens.

      Am going to suggest my friend suzanne comes on here to follow you as well Maurice. Thank you so much once again. This is absolutely brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much.

      Just a bit more about me. As well as Hashimotos Thyroiditis...autoimmune, I also have Lichen Sclerosis...another autoimmune condition...which mostly afflicts women's genitalia but can also affect men. Since quitting all grains I've had great improvement.

      I do believe that the root of disease originates in the bowel (was it Aristotle or someone else?) ....so think this is the way to go not only for me but for those with MS ME and all that neurological stuff..given the gut is the 2nd brain and the two are linked...as you experienced too Maurice. I don't see why this method shouldn't also stop the gene expression of more serious disease. Yeh!!!!

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 marey

      Posted

      Hi, yes it is a good idea for amymeyer to start also L-Glutamine at the same time and start healing the micro holes in her guts made by the bad bacteria ( E.coli).

      About your Hashimotos Thyroiditis, I think that you could give "Maca" a try, This is a normal vegetable use a lot in cooking in Peru.

      Maca balances out the hormones if they are unbalanced and boost the hormones to optimal values. Since you have an underactive thyroid, maca will help boost the hormones in the thyroid. I take this for other reasons, like for more energy and when I am with my girl because it gives an crazy boost in the bed area, LOL-

      About your friend suzanne, she and everybody is welcome to join. Does she have IBS also?

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    • mohammad36000
      mohammad36000 maurice74943

      Posted

      Dear Maurice

      Can you please tell me what was the daily dose of xifaxan (in mgs) that you were taking and for how long you took it (2 weeks or 3 weeks). Your reply is important for me so please do reply early.

       

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 mohammad36000

      Posted

      Hi, I honestly do not remember well what dosage I was taking, but i can only say that I think that it was around 1200mg for a month. But since I do not remember for sure I cannot confirm it.
    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 mohammad36000

      Posted

      Hi, I honestly do not remember well what dosage I was taking, but i can only say that I think that it was around 1200mg for a month. But since I do not remember for sure I cannot confirm it.
    • marey
      marey maurice74943

      Posted

      thanks so much maurice,

      you really are a star. i will try the maca....had heard of that before. i have confidence in your suggestions now so will go ahead.

      my friend suzanne has coeliac....but she has healed using the auto immune paleo diet and is a real heroinne. she has other autoimmune markers that came up with testing but she has got her CRP down so low that there are no concerns being raised now.

      she works closely with a naturopath so it will be interesting for you to see this perspective. we both have LS Lichen Sclerosis / sus  in the male. its supposed to be incurable ,,,but neither of us are falling for that...and any way i know one woman who has actually cured herself .

      i'll send you a little hello by pm and wonder if you would possibly be so kind as to send me the link or ref thats being moderated (due to the anti advertising policy...which happily we are protected from!! x)

    • maurice74943
      maurice74943 marey

      Posted

      Hi, I have sent you the message with the link. About your Lichen Sclerosis , since it is caused by oxidative factors, taking MSM may be an possibility to treat it because of its powerful antioxidant properties which fight off the free radicals. I am going to give it an try for my chronic dermatitis. MSM is good for the skin.
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