Gut symptom patterns from real stories
Each pattern maps what a symptom actually travels with — the companion symptoms, the tests people get, the treatments they try, and how many resolve. Open one to compare the story pattern that matches you.
35 patterns · 48,627 matching stories · patient-reported · updated weekly
SIBO success stories: what people who got better actually did
Which treatments the resolved stories credit — ranked by how often people said they helped.
Symptom patterns9
Start from a symptom and see what it travels with — companion symptoms, tests, treatments, and how many resolve.
Gas, Pain & Bloating Patterns
Gas and bloating feel simple until nothing fixes them. The stories show why one person's cure is another person's trigger.
6,388 stories · top companion: Stomach pain
Lower Abdominal Pain Patterns
Lower abdominal pain rarely travels alone. What it travels with is usually the more useful clue.
5,870 stories · top companion: Stomach pain
Upper Stomach Pain Patterns
Upper stomach pain brings its own crowd — reflux, nausea, and burning — and that crowd changes what actually helps.
4,647 stories · top companion: Bloating
Stomach Pain Patterns
Stomach pain often starts as a mystery. The patterns are less random than they feel.
4,160 stories · top companion: Diarrhea
Bloating After Eating Patterns
Bloating that shows up after meals feels like a food problem. The stories say it's often a motility and fermentation problem.
3,326 stories · top companion: Constipation
Brain Fog & Gut Issues Patterns
Brain fog and gut symptoms rarely get treated as one problem. In these stories, they usually move together.
1,961 stories · top companion: Fatigue
Food Intolerance Patterns
Food intolerance rarely means one food. In these stories it's usually a histamine and mast-cell story with a gut underneath it.
874 stories · top companion: Fatigue
Burning Stomach Pain Patterns
Burning pain points upward and inward — and in these stories it points most often at H. pylori, gastritis, and low stomach acid.
453 stories · top companion: Bloating
Tight Stomach Feeling Patterns
A tight stomach is hard to describe and easy to dismiss. Across 100 stories it clusters with bloating, tension, and many people who are still looking for relief.
100 stories · top companion: Stomach pain
Treatment patterns12
Start from a treatment and see the real split — who it helped, who saw no change, and who it made worse.
SIBO Treatment Patterns
Every SIBO treatment helps someone and fails someone else. The useful question isn't “does it work” — it's “for how many, and who did it make worse.”
1,752 stories · top companion: Constipation
Low-FODMAP Diet Patterns
Low-FODMAP is the most-recommended gut diet. The stories show it helps a lot of people a little, and a few people not at all.
1,495 stories · top companion: Diarrhea
Rifaximin (Xifaxan) Side Effects and Outcomes
The useful answer is not a single success rate. It is the full split between help, partial help, no change, and feeling worse, with the reason for use kept in context.
1,378 stories · top companion: Stomach pain
Motility Support Patterns
Motility is the piece most SIBO and bloating stories underrate — then credit once the relapses finally stop.
707 stories · top companion: Constipation
Oregano Oil for SIBO
Oregano oil is the go-to herbal antimicrobial for SIBO. The stories show it helps many, does nothing for many, and burns a few.
519 stories · top companion: Fatigue
Biofilm Disruptors for SIBO
Biofilm disruptors are one of the most-tried and most-divisive tools in these stories: for every person who says they finally broke a stubborn SIBO or candida cycle, another says they did nothing at all.
454 stories · top companion: Bloating
Berberine for SIBO
Berberine is the herbal antimicrobial people reach for after oregano oil. The outcomes look a lot alike — helpful for some, flat for many.
386 stories · top companion: Fatigue
Upset Stomach Remedies
The classic upset-stomach remedies — ginger, peppermint — hold up better in these stories than most supplements do.
348 stories · top companion: Bloating
Elemental Diet for SIBO
The elemental diet is the nuclear option for SIBO. These stories show it works for a real group — and is brutal for many who don't finish.
330 stories · top companion: Constipation
Low-Histamine Diet Patterns
Among gut diets, the low-histamine diet is one of the best-rated here — for the specific people whose problem is actually histamine.
318 stories · top companion: Brain fog
Probiotics for Bloating
Probiotics are the reflex answer for bloating. Across the wider corpus they underwhelm — but in the stories that specifically tried them, the picture is more nuanced.
229 stories · top companion: Constipation
Candida Diet Patterns
The candida diet is polarizing. In these stories it helps a real group and does nothing for a nearly equal one — with the SIBO overlap muddying the water.
144 stories · top companion: Bloating
Tests, diagnoses & conditions14
Start from a test result, diagnosis, or related condition and compare the stories clustered around it.
Gut Health Success Stories
Most gut stories are still in progress — but a real minority got their life back. This is what the people who improved actually did.
7,387 stories · top companion: Stomach pain
SIBO Breath Test Patterns
A breath test gives the gas a name. These stories show what people did once they had one — and when the test missed it entirely.
1,303 stories · top companion: Constipation
Histamine Intolerance & Gut Symptoms
Histamine intolerance looks like a food problem, a heart problem, and a gut problem at once. These stories show why it's usually all three.
627 stories · top companion: Fatigue
Methane SIBO (IMO) & Constipation
Methane is the SIBO subtype that constipates. It's also the one people most often say needed more than antibiotics.
567 stories · top companion: Constipation
MCAS & Gut Symptoms
When food, heart rate, skin, and gut all flare together, these stories keep landing on the same word: mast cells.
537 stories · top companion: Histamine reactions
Hydrogen SIBO & Diarrhea
Hydrogen is the SIBO subtype that runs fast. These stories show what actually slowed it down.
505 stories · top companion: Diarrhea
Long COVID & Gut Symptoms
Long COVID rarely reads as a gut problem first. In these stories it's fatigue, dysautonomia, and mast cells — with the gut caught in the middle.
431 stories · top companion: Brain fog
POTS & Gut Symptoms
POTS turns standing up into a symptom. In these stories the gut is one more system caught in the same dysregulation.
317 stories · top companion: Palpitations / POTS-like
SIBO Recurrence Patterns
SIBO coming back is the rule, not the exception, in these stories — and the people who finally get ahead of it tend to stop chasing the bacteria and start fixing what let it return.
301 stories · top companion: Constipation
Hydrogen Sulfide SIBO
Hydrogen sulfide SIBO is the hardest of the three gas types to get on top of. Across these stories, motility support is the one thing almost nobody says made them worse — while the most-tried option, a generic probiotic, is also the most divisive.
222 stories · top companion: Diarrhea
Leaky Gut Patterns
Leaky gut almost never travels alone. In these stories it shows up tangled with SIBO, candida, and histamine problems — and the fixes that help one person backfire for another.
192 stories · top companion: Brain fog
Vagus Nerve & Gut Symptoms
The vagus-nerve angle sounds soft until you see the outcome bar: nervous-system regulation is one of the best-rated interventions here.
187 stories · top companion: Anxiety
IBS-C Patterns
IBS-C and methane SIBO blur together in these stories — which is exactly why the 'just add fiber' advice so often backfires.
116 stories · top companion: Bloating
IBS-D Patterns
IBS-D is a label that hides several different problems — and in these stories, the ones that resolved usually found the specific driver underneath it.
96 stories · top companion: Diarrhea
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