Could this be a herximer reaction?

I may be due to get one but I’m a little scared about what I traits might be passed to me for mine donor

So I’ve dealt with SIBO and since gotten rid of it but had such bad anxiety & fatigue because of it. I was told to start a probiotic and it’s been great in terms of energy and anxiety almost gone. But the side effects above are making me rethink what I’m on. I’ve been taking it every day for over a week. The one I got was the bioglan platinum 20 billion gut health which has:

Each Hard Capsule contains: Bifidobacterium animalis ssp lactis (B-420) 400 Million CFU Bifidobacterium lactis (Bi-07) 300 Million CFU Bifidobacterium infantis (Bi-26) 100 Million CFU Bifidobacterium lactis (BL-04) 1 Billion CFU Bifidobacterium animalis ssp lactis (DSM15954) 1 Billion CFU Lactobacillus rhamnosus (GG) 10 Billion CFU Lactobacillus rhamnosus (HN001) 500 Million CFU Bifidobacterium lactis (HN019) 2 Billion CFU Lactobacillus acidophilus (LA-14) 200 Million CFU Lactobacillus casei (LC-11) 400 Million CFU Lactobacillus gasseri (LG-36) 100 Million CFU Lactobacillus plantarum (LP-115) 1.7 Billion CFU Lactobacillus paracasei (LPC-37) 1 Billion CFU Lactobacillus rhamnosus (LR-32) 100 Million CFU Lactobacillus salivarius ssp salivarius (LS-33) 200 Million CFU Lactobacillus acidophilus 1 Billion CFU

Hello everyone,

I’ve been dealing with Candida overgrowth in my gut for the past few months, and I’m looking for advice on how to normalize my stools and improve my microbiome.

I recently had a stool test that showed 70 colonies (with only 20 considered normal). My symptoms include occasional loose stools, anxiety, and panic attacks. I’ve tried the Candida diet and took oregano oil for 20 days about four months ago, along with a short course of Nystatin. I’ve also started making homemade kefir and plan to incorporate sauerkraut, kombucha, and sourdough into my diet.

As a pescatarian, I typically consume a decent amount of fiber, but I’m looking to increase it further. I tolerated carbs well before this overgrowth, and I suspect antibiotics may have disrupted my gut microbiome.

Has anyone experienced something similar? What strategies have worked for you in managing Candida and restoring gut health? Any advice on improving my stools and overall microbiome would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

As above. Ill cut to the chase. I had a surgical site infection in mid september that led me to having a minor surgical washout and drainage of a superficial abscess. I was then put on 5 days of Kefzol then 4 days of Ampicllian once lab cultures came back. Was discharged on 35 days oral amoxicillian at max standard dose.

I have found since going on antibiotics I am craving high fiber foods. Such as high fibre bran, whole meal bread, oatmeal etc. I have been focusing on my diet alot and have included fiber supplementation, pea protein, yougart, kefir etc. I am approaching the end of the therapy which totals it to about 6 weeks of antibiotics. Symptoms such as cramps and diarhea have been transient and minimal so far and I can count on one hand the amount of times I had watery stools

Is this craving just psychological or does gut bacteria composition play a role?

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Because of a chronic UTI, I've been on many rounds of antibiotics since February of this year. I don't know the exact number because this has gone on for so long and become a blur but it might be upwards of 7-10 times with all the different antibiotics. I am also going to start hiprex soon but I don't if that affects the good bacteria. Basically, I have very little money so I want to make sure that whatever probiotic I get that it at least has a chance of working. Please let me know some good ones.

Also, how long should I be on the probiotics for? And will hiprex counteract it?

Hello,

Long story short, I got SIBO after food poisoning several years ago. Initially, I thought I made something with probiotics ingestion, but then GI map shows extremely high levels of E. Coli (Enteropathogenic E. Coli). I tried many treatments during the years (antimicrobials, antibiotics, antifungals etc.), but nothing helped significantly. Even worse, my microbiome was wiped and got different sensitivities (salicylates, oxalates, sulfur etc.).

So, I decided to give a try to FMT (oral / rectal) from a clinic, which tests and monitor it's donor. I've done a course of 10 days treatment with Vancomycin to clear, followed by 5 days waiting to clear the antibiotic and then laxative (basically, colonscopy like prep before FMT).

Then, I got the FMT in the clinic rectally and orally at the same day. I felt relaxed afterwards and had a good sleep. Two days after I took another liquid solution (orally), as I got no bad reactions whatsoever.

Now almost ~2 months after, I continue to have yellow stool (fat malabsorption) - TUDCA/UDCA/Ox bile just worsen that. So, my doctor decide me to use frozen solution - basically, he prepared FMT with glycerol (frozen) and gave it to me (I am storing it at home at -22 C).

I have started to take 1 capsule per day (~700-800 mg of FMT orally). The reactions I got are mainly joint pains and stomach gurgling (like really noisy), but still nothing crazy.

I am taking it for about a week and I started to notice increase of overall malabsorption (food pieces in the stool, fat malabsorption, yellow stool etc.). I feel extreme hunger after a big meal, which indicates serious malabsorption.

However, at the same time my salicylate sensitivity dropped a bit, H2S doesn't seem to be SO hard as before and I am confused.

1. Is it possible to get overgrowth in small intestine from FMT? (anyone with experience, please reply)
2. Can I get temporary malabsorption when I introduce FMT orally or it's indication of something bad?

I am concerned because weight loss is there and I can't afford too much, because I already lost weight with SIBO for so many years. Dosages that I am taking a way too less compared to what they gave me initially.

Hi,

Just recived the microbiome results,and i m scary because i have high biliar acids,ancylostoma parasite,methane,fungi,mold,inflamation,infeections.

What is the root cause for high biliar acids?

Thanks

So there is one report on someone curing Androgenetic Alopecia (typical receding hairline pattern) reporting that a FMT helped them. There are I believe two studies that report Alopecia Areata (Patchy hairloss across the body and scalp in seemingly random positions) growing their hair back.

I was interested in knowing if anyone has done a FMT or taken probiotics and seen regrowth of hair in the scalp?

The reason asking is because the I imagine the Gut Microbiome produces some resources to maintain a healthy scalp enviroment. During aging process the diversity of the gut also decreases. This would lead me to believe some of the bacteria that helps produce resource for a healthy scalp would maybe die out, which in turn causes the hairloss.

Thanks for reading this.

What probiotics and yeast kefir contains And what probiotics and yeast kefir does not contain and needs to be suplemented?

Hi I'm don't know much about probiotics except that I've gone to Sprouts or WholeFoods in the past and just bought Jarrow or something similar (both refrigerated and not). I guess I've read conflicting things about whether these things are useful and even survive stomach acid.

That said, my motility is low and at times when drinking kefir or magnesium can become more a daily output person. Otherwise I can get constipated, certainly air gassy with cheese and pizza (not smelly though). I used to feel bloated but not much anymore.

I took alot of antibiotics a couple of years ago (doxy, a few days of cipro, bactrim for 5 weeks, flagyl, maybe 1 or 2 more -luckily no c. diff). after 20 days of doxy, a medical scare led me to have anxiety and insomnia, the latter which continues to this day with 4-5 hours of natural unaided sleep vs 7 to 8 before. Melatonin and seratonin are majorly affected by the microbiome so I suspect my body is still not right.

2 Genova Diagnostics tests done a year apart show lower Akkermansia. I'm game for trying Pendulum but see that some recommend pairing it up with other pro/pre biotics. Can someone help me out and give me the digest recommendation? I'd hate to have to start reading this sub backwards for a year.

Thanks

So yea il not sure where to ask this but would and extended course a 500 mg azithromycin 4x daily help clean out my microbiome to cure LGV OR PID? so he's I've been struggling with PID {pelvic inflammatory disease} symptoms for almost 5 years now without the ability to get a proper cause of it. and have managed to figure out that it might be due to LGV from untreated gonorrhea or chlamydia, and as of now I am in severe pain. I was able to get a doctor to prescribe azithromycin 500 mg 4x a day for 30 days.

I've been on short amount of azithromycin that have helped in the past, [500mg 1x for 14 days]. which is why this doctor gave it to me now, however I have never taken it this often. Will this finally cure this infection, I've had for years and years? Why or why not? Or Have I been mistaken azithromycin for Erythromycin this entire time and was given the wrong antibiotic?

Any help or insite would be amazing I am really really really super scared! Also I am sorry if this isn't the place to post something like this I just had so many questions about the microbiome recently. Thank you! 💜

Hello, I recently did a Thorne gut health test and the results are showing a very high amount of human DNA in the reading. 15% of retrieved DNA was human DNA, compared to a 0.4%-6% reference range (20th/80th percentiles).

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of result?

Please don't suggest eating beans, plants, fruits as I already eat a lot of those. I believe many of my bacteroides species have been wiped out due to antibiotic use. Therefore, if the species are wiped out, they cannot feed on the plants because they aren't there in the first place.

Which probiotic supplements can I take along with eating diverse plants and a healthy diet to increase bacteroides?

Symptoms

-sibo & massive uncomfortable bloating despite treatment (for the past ten years) - I eat a very healthy clean diet but bloat every time i eat (basically eating just fruit, protein, and veggies, and rice at this point)

-constipation and “overflow diarrhea” (i go every day but it feels like incomplete evacuation)

-PCOS and insulin resistance

-slow metabolism- easy to gain weight

-irregular periods

-hypothyroid

-water retention and inflammation

-low bacteroidites and high firmicutes despite eating very healthy diet full of diverse fruits and veggies

What should I do to eliminate the bad bacteria?

Agree or disagree

I've been looking into ways to boosting dopamine levels. My past approach primarily focused on supplementing precursors (i.e. phenylalanine; tyrosine; L-Dopa). I was so intrigued that about 50% of body Dopamine is made in the gut according to the citation below. I then bumped into this NCBI study discussing how microbes Enterococcus sp. has the capacity to produce dopamine in a gastrointestinal-like environment when supplied with the dopamine precursor L-3,4 dihydroxyphenylalanine (i.e L-dopa).

There're a handful of commercial probiotics with commensal enterococcus faecalis strains. I was toying with the idea if these probiotics may raise one's dopamine and help with depression/ADHD?

50% of body Dopamine is made in the gut

Dopamine production in Enterococcus faecium

Now i've read that dopamine from the gut doesn't pass the BBB, so there'd be no dopamine increase. but i've read elsewhere that it does somehow increase tyrosine hydroxylase levels

I have started to get more gut problems again (have had problems since before but got it fairly under control) however which became worse after I’ve been on vacation! (No viruses or parasites). I suspected some kind of overgrowth after eating more fiber than usual on the trip and therefore tried a supplement with physsilium seeds which made me worse after a week, stopped it, got better but now getting worse and worse. I suspect that I have gotten some kind of overgrowth of bacteria or fungus or something else out of balance, now I need help knowing what it might be based on my symptoms!

Symptoms: lower abdominal pain 2-3 hours after eating, tingling sensation in hands, abdominal pain after pooping, exacerbated digestive issues (already have problems with that), worse when eating physilium seeds, increased bloating, trapped gas and flatulence.

Is it possible to get a yeast or bacterial infection inside or on your anus? How is this possible or how does this happen? What does an infection inside or on the anus look or feel like?

Anyone had experience with candida overgrowth in the gut? How did you get rid of it?

This is the second time I’ve contracted a skin case of ringworm on my leg while supplementing S.Boulardii.

Has anyone else noticed an increase in fungal infections while taking it? Been taking it for digestion and overall health.

I’ve had to complete 9 weeks of antibiotics due to a diagnosis of septic arthritis and osteomyelitis. The first six weeks were via picc line and the last three are oral. What I’ve noticed in the last few weeks is fast weight gain which is not normal for me. I now the antibiotics have played hell with my gut, but can this cause weight gain?

I’m 43 and was very healthy before the infection.

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