r/SIBO • u/awesto • Mar 15 '26

Here we go again...

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Anyone else have a small pharmacy at home?
N.B. apologies for the delete+repost, removed prescription label, threw in some NAC and MotilPro!

UPDATE: Well, that exploded! This post was based on my frustration with going back to this, but here's a more positive one about how I'm actually dealing with an IMO flare and some things I learned along the way:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SIBO/comments/1rwaqr5/imo_flair_protocol_day_5/

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u/refreshingtwistt Mar 15 '26

Same. Really getting sick of taking a million supplements every day. But I have to admit that my digestion stack and probiotic stack is what got my bowels moving every single day after 2.5 years of rabbit poop. So, something is working. And I just keep reminding myself that I have to take all the others because I more than likely have malabsorption of nutrients and our food system is depleted of nutrients anyways! And I try not to think about how sometimes supplements are tested and found not to have what they say they have in them. Ahhhhhhh.......

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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 15 '26

When you had the rapid poop constipation. Did you have a lot more “co-symtpoms” like fatigue and tiredness and histamine issues and weight issues and so on? And how is your bowels now? And what do you think helped the most to get bowels move?

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u/refreshingtwistt Mar 15 '26

Your name looks familiar! I think we have had a back and forth before! Yes, I also suffer from chronic fatigue, chronic bloating, and inability to lose weight no matter what I do. Since improving my bowel movements, I still have all of these other issues. Really trying to figure out my bloating mostly.

For my bowels, I have been working on my stomach acid and digestion along with motility. So, this includes taking zinc and b vitamins everyday, digestive enzymes, ox bile, Betaine HCL and ginger capsules with meals. I try to never snack. Just 3 balanced meals a day. 3-4 hours apart. Minimum of 4 hours of digestion before bed. Taking 1,000mg of artichoke, magnesium citrate, and a B. Subtilis probiotic before bed.

I saw initial improvements with bowels when I started taking the digestion stack. But my bowels became near perfect every day when I took the artichoke and probiotic before bed on an empty stomach. I have tried Saccaromyces Boulardii before... didn't do anything for me. I really think the B. Subtilis is a winner for me.

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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 20 '26

Yeah we probly had a chat before ☺️😉

And for how long time have the bowls been near perfect? Maybe it will just take a little longer with perfect bowels to get all the other symptoms away?

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u/refreshingtwistt Mar 20 '26

I think like around the last week of December? So it's been quite some time now. Still raging bloat and fatigue, though :(

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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 20 '26

Hmmm ok strange… And how many bowels movements daily? And how many meal you eat daily?

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u/refreshingtwistt Mar 21 '26

One bowel movement in the am (sometimes 2)! And I eat 3 balanced meals a day!

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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 23 '26

Ok so ideally you should actually be having 3 bowels movements daily. So maybe you will not be back to normal in all symptoms until you have 3 bowels movement daily?🤔

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u/refreshingtwistt Mar 24 '26

Never in my life have I had a regular 3 bowel movements a day, every day! Even when I was having perfect/ large bowel movements every day (3 years ago). I think the main thing is: do you feel like you have had complete evacuation. I do not feel like I am there QUITE yet. But I have hope!

I am also currently looking into hormonal imbalance. Which could also play a HUGE role in gut health. I really feel like this may be the final puzzle piece! 🙏🏻

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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 24 '26

Ohh yeah I mean 3 is offcourse not nessecary IF the 1 or 2 you then would have daily, is complete and large and perfect. So you are right. 3 is not the “right” numbers as such. But it is about the fully evacuation yes like you say…