No sibo breath test yet, but rifaximin changed my poop and sleep for 3 months before it all came back
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Pain, bloating, gas buildup which wakes me up at night and ruins my sleep. Accompanied by heavy urination when at night from maybe relatedfluod retention. Rifaximin was life changing for 3 months but now back to normal. Low FODMAP helps but a few days of eating the same things brings all the gas back and I have to rotate again. Inability to pass gas while feeling and hearing it build up. 38 M, 153lbs, 87cm waist at navel. Colonscopy clear. Tight pelvic floor which I’m addressing with PT now. History of Crohn’s with scarring around ileocecal valve but last 10 years of colonoscopy’s clear. No sibo breath test yet because what’s the point the treatment will work or it won’t. Probiotics don’t seem to do anything beyond make it worse. Tried keto and candida cleanse. Take digestive enzymes plus magnesium. If I manage to sleep when bloating is happening I have vivid nightmares and make up soon after. Poop ragged and thin and floats. While on rifaximin it became firm and knobby and sank.
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Was life changing for 3 months; symptoms later returned to normal.
Helps, but after a few days of eating the same things gas returns and foods need rotating again.
Tried candida cleanse.
Takes digestive enzymes.
Tried keto.
Takes magnesium.
Addressing tight pelvic floor with PT now.
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