Hello everyone
I have just joined. I have had stomach problems all my life I think.
I was sick in the taxi which took me home from the maternity ward and it just went on from there! I am 70 years old, British, resident in Germany, and for the last 30 years or so have had IBS-D SIBO hydrogen according to my breath test (unusual because apparently SIBO D is not usually hydrogen).
I am anxious about travelling or visiting people for the obvious predictable reasons. I think my main issue is an over active gladin-I think that is the hormone involved and consequently I have over energetic motility. Eating anything, except possibly fresh fish or chicken, sets me off and the more food, the more problems.
It is always loose stool or diorrhea. Constipation is probably worse. I go to the toilet about four times a day to empty my bowels, on good days once and almost normal, bad days rushing there five times.
I do not share the trust that many people in this forum seem to have towards medical practitioners and medication. I have myself been to about five doctors, three health practitioners, three dieticians (I've lost count of the exact numbers) and none has helped. I have only recently learned that coffee affects the gastroreflux mechanism more in the morning than in the afternoon. I found that out by chance in the internet. Not one of the experts whom I visited gave me that useful piece of information!
That's it for now
I have just joined. I have had stomach problems all my life I think.
I was sick in the taxi which took me home from the maternity ward and it just went on from there! I am 70 years old, British, resident in Germany, and for the last 30 years or so have had IBS-D SIBO hydrogen according to my breath test (unusual because apparently SIBO D is not usually hydrogen).
I am anxious about travelling or visiting people for the obvious predictable reasons. I think my main issue is an over active gladin-I think that is the hormone involved and consequently I have over energetic motility. Eating anything, except possibly fresh fish or chicken, sets me off and the more food, the more problems.
It is always loose stool or diorrhea. Constipation is probably worse. I go to the toilet about four times a day to empty my bowels, on good days once and almost normal, bad days rushing there five times.
I do not share the trust that many people in this forum seem to have towards medical practitioners and medication. I have myself been to about five doctors, three health practitioners, three dieticians (I've lost count of the exact numbers) and none has helped. I have only recently learned that coffee affects the gastroreflux mechanism more in the morning than in the afternoon. I found that out by chance in the internet. Not one of the experts whom I visited gave me that useful piece of information!
That's it for now
