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tex wrote:But I can tell you from past experience of other members of this board that Xifaxan (rifaximin) works for SIBO the same way that budesonide works for MC. Some members have tried it multiple times, but always with the same effect — it seems to help for a few weeks, and then the symptoms return. Why does this happen?
Thank you so much for the info. Does that also apply to "herbal antibiotics"? Would you take them or would you wait for SIBO to go away on its own?
I did not take them yet. I had a reaction to a liquid vitamin D supplement that I was initially told was without any soy. Well, by the second day I had D. I called the company and it turns out that one ingredient (tocopherol) was based on "highly refined soybean oil that most people don't react to". Well, I am obviously not in that group of people. I don't know what upset me more, the fact that I was first given incorrect info or the fact that a few drops are enough to result in D. I tried another lingual vitamin D3. I don't know if I tolerate it or not. I started with a weird rash on my belly. The last few weeks were quite stressful and it is hard to figure out what is being caused by what. I think I will go back to the Freeda vitamin D3 tablets that I tolerated just fine.
All of this is also the reason why I did not start the herbal antibiotic yet. I called the company that produces it. It does not contain gluten, soy, eggs, or dairy. But it contains peas and lentils and I am not sure if I tolerate those.
Patricia wrote:
All of this is also the reason why I did not start the herbal antibiotic yet. I called the company that produces it. It does not contain gluten, soy, eggs, or dairy. But it contains peas and lentils and I am not sure if I tolerate those.
Patricia,
Since peas and lentils are legumes like soy, I would avoid this product. I'm of the better safe than sorry school. Also, like Tex, I believe that our microbiome will sort itself out once we sort out our food sensitivities and clear up the inflammation. I tend to think sibo is an effect not a cause. I have no proof of this but all I have read about treatment for sibo suggests that treatment with antibiotics is only successful temporarily which means that the cause of the sibo has not been eliminated.
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Thank you so much for the info, Jean! I will keep that in mind. I do think that the SIBO is secondary to the MC. My priority is to get a good handle on the MC and decrease the inflammation and all the "weird" symptoms in the rest of my body.
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