They are two different things - but you can have both...
07/10/06 12:37 PM
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Heather
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 7799
Loc: Seattle, WA
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IBS can coincide with just about every other digestive (or non-digestive) disorder out there. Find out if you have SIBO, and if you do get treated for it. Hopefully, that will be all she wrote, and you will be cured.
If, however, you also have IBS, you can get rid of the SIBO but you'll be left with IBS because it's functional, not bacterial. A lot of people with one digestive problem end up developing IBS as a result, because IBS can start after any kind of insult to the gut. (Just about everyone with inflammatory bowel disease, for example, tends to develop IBS as a direct result.) So, you can cure the original problem, but be left with the IBS.
Hopefully that is NOT the case with you, and once you get rid of the SIBO you won't have any symptoms or other problems left.
Best, Heather
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