When I am asked how I feel, I usually like to say, “Are you sure you want to know?” and they are taken back by that statement. To those that always feel ok or do not know the chronic pain / symptom struggle most of us look like everything is normal. Well normal on the outside is far from what we feel on the inside. I have stood in meetings

Below are the two tests I have done as far as breath testing for SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth) These tests differ in several ways as they can be orders to use different substrates (Glucose or Lactulose) these can cause different reactions depending on what you specific issues might be. I would prepare for diarrhea for these tests post the test time, or possibly during it. Overall this test is

3 days of terrible issues, hopefully coming to an end. These days and bouts are very scary as just when you think you have a run of semi ok days then the bad days come back to haunt you. Was it food, was it something else? What triggers do you have? Gut issues in general are life changing, life altering and can ruin any life you think you might have.

430am – Hello gut you jerk 430am-750 – 6 Trips to the can or as I like to call it my remote office Time to take Medication just to make it through the day – Should be fun when the bottle has more labels on it than bottle. And sadly the side effects can be more to deal with than the initial isses but it can give some sense of