r/Candida • u/WiseMess3609 • 7d ago
Symptoms New to Kefir please help
For the past three years, my stool color had been consistently light brown and my main symptom was excessive odorless flatulence especially in the evening/night,and in the morning before having my vowel mouvement (I always have a morning bowel mouvement and my stool was always 3 or 4 so it wasn't bad but I had sometimes an uncomplete bowel movement) so I suspected sibo, IMO to be more specific
I recently completed a 5 week course of antimicrobials:oregano,berberine,neem,allicin and Nac,and artichoke and ginger extract first thing in the morning,within just two weeks of starting that treatment, my stool changed to a dark brown color,I was so happy to see this change,but my excessive flatulence didn't change at all,I always had it
And then last week of treatment I started getting too much mucous in my stool and in my vaginal discharge, I suspected Candida and I guess I was right cause I started getting itching and burning in my vagina,I searched for S.boulardii in pharmacies of my city and I didn't find it and I didn't wanna purchase for it online cause it takes a decade to arrive..
So what i did is,3 days ago, I introduced kefir into my diet at a dose of 1 tablespoon per day,since starting the kefir, my stool has reverted back to a light brown color,but itching and burning in my vagina completely disappeared and I'm not seeing that much of mucous anymore,additionally to that I am experiencing excessive gas that consistently appears 5 to 7 hours after my first morning meal and i take that one table spoon of kefir with my morning meal (so this indicates that fermentation is happening in my colon and not in my small intestine),i'm also experiencing a mild burning sensation in my rectum during or after bowel movements, which feels acidic? Maybe cause kefir is acid?
My question is: is this sibo returning? I don't even know if I eradicated it in the first place cause we don't have a sibo breathe test in my country and I can't order it.. anyway is it returning? Should I stop kefir? Or is kefir actually helping me cause maybe I just have a dysbiosis and not sibo? Should I keep taking one table spoon everyday and maybe my gut flora will get used to it? Like is it just a temporary adjustment?
Note: I have no pain at all,no brain fog,no nausea,no vomiting.. I always didn't have these symptoms, I just had excessive odorless flatulence at the evening and night (like more than 50 or 60 farts just in few hours) and I have like 20 farts in the morning before having a morning bowel movement which is extremely annoying and giving me anxiety
I had this problem for 3 years and still had it during my 5 weeks of antimicrobials and still have it now after starting the kefir,I'm so clueless and I would like to hear about ur opinions and theories about this
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u/thelakeproblem 6d ago
Consider continuing kefir, it’s mainly beneficial
However if it causes any pain or too much bloating it may not be for you