I had a similar experience with what I call bacterial overgrowth. I've told this story here before but will repeat it for you. Doctors just ignore me when I tell them this (they are no better here than in France I guess) but I swear to God this works for me. Having suffered from IBS for 14 yrs now I've been through all the normal tests. Most of the time I'm pretty much okay, watching my diet but do have about one flare up a month. On at least 1/2 dozen separate occasions (and mind you the first occasion I am going to tell you about LASTED AN ENTIRE YEAR and I just wished I'd not wake up every night I went to sleep). Anyway this first occasion my IBS got so bad I couldn't eat or drink anything without gas, gurling, pains diahhrea. This was every crummy time I ate. I had previously been on antiobiotics for a bad cold and this happedn to me. The antiobiotics also happened to give me a vaginal yeast infection so I used monostat and guess what my stomach cleared up after a whole year or prolems. I thought it was a coincidence. Then a year or so later the same every meal symptoms happened. I hadn't been on antibiotics but had been using a lot of sugar (which from what I understand makes it a field day for yeast). I didn't have a vaginal infection but I took the monostat anyway as a test and wa-laa, the stomach got better. This happens to me 2-3 x per year and when nothing else works I use the monostat and my IBS symptoms improve dramatically every time. If you can get your doctor to believe this there is something easier than using the monostat cream. One Diflucan pill does the same thing. By the way, the very same problems happened with a BC patch at another time in my life, but that's another story. I also know of a friend of a friend who had terrible IBS like symptoms. His doctor said it was yeast overgrowth in his system and he is on some type of regular medication to help him but I dont' know what as I've lost track of a friend and he has to stay clear of sugar and yeast. I heard one time he was so bad and he was flying somewhere and litterally had to crawl up the aisle to get to the bathroom.
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