Yes she wants me to have another fodmap breath test aswell and has even said that Heather's diet aswell as FODMAP diet are good diets if that is all you can tolerate and it helps you but she believes my issues are not just IBS and could be caused from leaky gut. I have had a LOT of anti biotics and prednisone over the years and it causes severe gastro distress in me it always have. I didn't have a breath test under this Dr and she wants me to have one to rule out fodmaps also said that I am deficient in everything.She knows all about Dr Shepherd and the breath testing. I have bad bacteria overload and despite me constantly having probiotics they could fine NO good bacteria at all in my gut. They think I have bad bacteria overload and found all this undigested protein and carbs aswell. I know for a fact that digestive enzymes always helped me when eating but a gastroenterlogist told me unless I had cancer that couldn't be the case. This Dr told me the reason why they DO help me is because I am simply not making them as all my food seems to be undigested and I am really malnourished.
Do you know if IBS alone causes nutritional deficiencies? I am really low in iron, b12 and pretty much everything else and whatever food I do eat-my tummy is really sensitive to.
This Dr said the reason why even some "safe" foods cause me trouble is because my digestion has now gotten so bad that no matter what I eat I get gastro distress. From what she has explained to me she went right through it all-showing me how the endoscopy and colonscopy is akin to flying over a rainforest-you can see trees etc..but not the wildlife or fungi that grow on the trees and that it definitely appears that the gut is damaged and needs to heal before it can tolerate food in it. Once my gut heals my pancreas should start making the correct enzymeS again.
I have to try this as if this actually is what is causing my IBS symptoms I need to get it sorted before my health deteriorates further. If it doesn't help-then I guess I will just follow Heather's guidelines and if I have FODMAPS will incorporate that in.
I am not sure if anyone here would call what I have definitively IBS? Would you? Or would you say that the bacteria and digestion issues have to be cleared up before I can make the call that it IS definitely IBS?
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Do I call what I have IBS or do I need to clear these other possibilities up first?
