100% WORKING TREATMENT for my IBS!

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100% WORKING TREATMENT for my IBS!

Hi, I am writing this to try to help everybody that I can because I have been on the same boat as you guys and gone through this living ■■■■ for 3 years!!!  Short description about my previous case was that I could almost eat nothing, only eat what is normally designated for IBS menu, I was always feeling that I had to go to the Bathroom, I would have IBS-D attacks daily, even taking a lot of Imodium would not work totally, painful bowel cramps, the whole works… I could go on with the list…but you guys already know what are the symptoms from personal experience.

Doctors give this autoimmune disease the name of IBS because they are totally clueless of why this happens, so they just grab all the symptoms and put them in one bag calling it IBS… to me it is just the doctors another way of saying they are clueless but they don´t want to show it to us so they won´t look bad.

Dr. Pimentel who has come up with the theory about SIBO is the cause makes me think that he is correct, this is the only one doctor that had a clue.

Now for the Treatment that I used daily :

From 10 gram to 30 grams of L-Glutamine, to repair the damaged intestinal mucosa and lining. Repairing this will block big food particles from entering the blood stream directly due to the holes in the intestinal lining cause by the bad bacteria.

 12 billion Probiotic daily at least, start by using the 50 billion probiotic and then after seeing results you may try to decrease to cheaper probiotics, but don´t go below 10 billion.

Using the SIBO treatment first if desired:

Use Xifaxan ( Rifaximin) antibiotic to wipe out the bad bacteria but this will also wipe out the good bacteria ( check for Dr. Pimentel’s SIBO treatment). While you are doing this, I advise you to take probiotics daily to compensate the bacterial slaughter in the intestines. You can also start L-Glutamine ate the same time to repair the intestinal mucosa and Lining.

After the Xifaxan Treatment, keep on taking the heavy duty 50 billion probiotic daily and glutamine. After getting better, you may try to change the dosages of L-Glutamine and Probiotics and see how you adapt to lower dosages to try to save money.

Since many if not all IBS people are prone to getting E.Coli overgrowth again, you will have to keep on taking L-Glutamine and Probiotics for the rest of your life. I am on this treatment for 1 year and now I eat Pizza, Junk food, Spicy food, drink sodas and Coca-Colas and am totally normal as I was before. I will not say I am cured because it must be an auto-immune disease, but you may keep it in check and be 100% normal by just taking this for the rest of you days ( L-Glutamine and Probiotics).

I have tried previously all know medications for IBS, Antidepressants, anxiolytics , antispasmodics, tried acupuncture, etc. and I was only 30% better, because this medicines do not fix the problem, the just drug your gut to numbness…

This treatment will take around 6 months to reach 100% improvement, but you will notice improvements after 2 months, so be patient.

Good Luck to all and may god help you!

 

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Hello Maurice...and anyone reading this,

You say. "I have tried previously known medications for IBS, antidepressants, anciolytics, antispasoodics etc..." but have you tried LIFESTYLE? Have you changed your diet completely? 

Sounded okay...up until the pizza, coke, junk food, spicy food that you continue to eat. Would you feed your dog such a diet? No! He would probably have constipation and intermittent diarrhea (IBS) and you would then change his diet rather than having to clean up after him and see him suffer.

Hopefully, you eat well in between all the junk food and have cleared all these IBS drugs from your system. And again, hopefully these poisonous foods are a once in a while indulgence...like once a month! 

If you eat meals where your plate is colourful...as in a dinner plate that includes beets, spinach, peas, purple cabbage etc..every meal..and where breakfast is a 2 -3 fruits smoothie, and your lunch includes a rich green salad or a vegetable soup (not iceberg lettuce!) you may not need to take anything else. Food is your medicine as they say. 

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Hi J

 

I always eat healthy and try to avoid junk food. Before my IBS, I would normally eat 4 times max junk food per month, so that is nothing. During the 3 years of IBS , I totally avoided junk food …

After getting better with this treatment, I tried to test once in a while with junk food to see the extent of how better I got. This week, I have spent the whole 7 days with hamburgers, pizza and Coca-Cola during lunch and dinner to give it a 7 day test. And I totally passed the test.

I am back to my normal healthy meals made at home by me. Sorry for not being more detailed about the junk food, but that was only for testing to see how better my IBS got.

J  

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Good thing! Glad everything has worked out well. All the best!

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Well done it's a shame that the doctors can't use this information to benifit their patients. From what I've experienced most people put total faith in their doctor and wouldn't have the will or desire to do what you have done.  

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IBS = A dustbin of diagnosis.

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Maurice, was there any evidence of bacterial overgrowth of any particular strain? E.Coli,C Difficile? (C Difficile spores are an extremely tough little bacteria which survives stomach acid and also antibiotics struggle with overgrowth reduction without pulsing!) You havent identified the cause of your IBS.

I can agree a lot with what you say in regard to keeping to IBS safe foods but as we know this just reduces the triggers/symptoms of the unknown cause of IBS. In way it makes people feel guilty that it is their own dietary habits and their own doing. It is really bad medical practice dancing around the subject because they have no idea and putting the emphasis on the patients. They are clueless. I also suspect that the hospital testing departments dont do the job properly or the equipment isnt up to the job to identify the bacterial problems.

I have said for a long time (unless you have Crohns, Celiac or some proven bowel disease) the diet is a big smokescreen in the cause of IBS. I have had the same healthy diet for years and the diet makes no difference in periods of IBS.

My stools in non IBS periods are 12inches long, very soft and ease out. When I eat, the body defecates within minutes, Good in, bad out. Compared to IBS periods the stools are irregular shapes, undigested bullets but the DIET is still the same! This stool change is a gut mobility problem and i havent figured this one out yet.

The only link I have to the cause of my IBS is food bug infections and antibotics. One or other has caused the damage to my intestines because when the IBS returns its always after gastrointeritus or antibiotic use. Clindamycin is a terrible drug often causing Dysbiosis within the gut. Refuse it people!

However, an IBS diet and avoiding junk food triggers can lessen symptoms but we know it doesnt solve it. Maybe less symptoms cause less anxiety about the pain and cramping. Pain and a misdiagnosis would make you anxious wouldnt it? But Anxiety isnt the cause either.

I`m with you on L-Glutamine because even hospitals use it after surgery on the intestines. The studies are conclusive; it is a intestinal repairer.

The probiotics, Kefir, VSL3#, Lactospore are all proven in treatment of IBS and crowd out the overgrowth in bacteria.

Slippery elm bark, marshmallow root, Hesperidin and Green tea extract are all proven intestinal repairers (things big pharma cannot patent!). I think some companies sell this blend.

I have just read about Pimentel. His diet treatment is close to a Paleo Diet. Its mainly meat proteins, eggs and low GI vegetables but absolutely no dairy, grains, or sugars/starches. But it is  an emergency diet, you can slowly come off it once the gut has rebalanced. It starves the bacteria and the energy is supplied by EFA fats - olive oils, hemp, coconut with apparently is the preferred fuel of mitochondria. Seems like the Innuit have survived 2000 years on that diet. Not many grains or starches in the ice is there?

Maybe just maybe, patient power on this forum can help to bring relief where the medical profession cannot.

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Hi, I never got tested for SIBO. Before I just tried every possibly known medicine for IBS from Doctors advice, I tried other treatments like acupuncture also, etc… Then I tried the internet checking out what everybody was saying about IBS and what they have tried, so I also tried Vitamin B & D in high doses, Probiotics with low dose and Glutamine with low dosage… Nothing worked and I was going into the abyss… Also because I was still using the Antidepressants, anxiolytics , antispasmodics that the Doctors gave me to numb my intestine around 30% … I still having a lot of IBS episodes … I was taking 1 antidepressant, 2 anxiolytics from different brands and 2 antispasmodics at the same time… I was really drugged here with all the side effects in its full glory… But I still continued checking the internet for any leads that could give me an idea of how to win this IBS crap, so I still had my hope making me going…

I have after tried Xifaxan ( Rifaximin) antibiotic to wipe out the bad bacteria and then some probiotics as Dr. Pimentel´s treatment, but that did not work at the time…

Then I read some articles about some people getting slightly better with L-Glutamine  ( around 2 to 4 grams) but still far from 100% better, they still had some episodes and had to keep up with the Diet…

I checked L-glutamine on the internet, and read that it repairs the intestinal lining and mucosa… So I started adding the pieces here with Dr. Pimentel´s theory about SIBO…

So I thought, I have wiped out the bad bacteria and took some probiotics (with low bacterial dosage) for a short  period of time , but my intestinal walls were already damaged from before, so I still would have IBS after because the damage is already done…

So my solution was to take L-Glutamine up to 30 mg per day ( do not go beyond 40mg recommended dosage), added Probiotics with 50 billion strains of good bacteria and just kept on taking it daily during months without quitting because I thought that the damage in the intestines will takes months or even a year to be repaired…

After 2 months I started seeing improvements and after 1 year I am 100% normal as before.

After 4 months starting my treatment, I started quitting the drugs from the doctors and now I am drug free!!!

 I just keep on taking now 10 grams of L-Glutamine and Probiotics of 12 Billion strains of good bacteria daily and I plan on doing this treatment for life in my case, because I believe that once this happens, it can happen again if you do not take care of it.

So I take this for prevention, so that I never have to go through this Hell again!!!

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Wow! What a success story! Remember also, good 'stuff' in, good 'stuff' out! Eat well and drink plenty of water to keep everything moving right along down there! I wish you continued success and thanks for sharing with us all!

Robin

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I have also told my mother to start with this treatment and she is already getting better, she does not have any more the incomplete defecation sensation and urgency. She has IBS-C while my case was IBS-D, so I believe that everybody can benefit (if not also become 100% better just like me) with the treatment I am doing daily.

I believe that all types of IBS (IBS-C, IBS-D, IBS-A) are somehow related to this bad bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). For the people that have Stomach cramps and pain ( which the doctors also put in the IBS bag bin), I believe that Helicobacter pylori is the problem while for people with Bowel problems are related to E.Coli instead.

I also had Helicobacter pylori which destroys the wall lining in the stomach, the only method that the doctors have are anti-biotics to try to kill it, but it should be like E.Coli, it is impossible to totally eradicate the bacteria from your stomach.

So for people with Stomach problems ( which doctors say that it is also IBS just to give it some justification and name without any knowledge of why it happens), I believe also that you may benefit from the same treatment as me because L-Glutamine repairs the whole digestive tract, stomach included. I do not know if Probiotics will help against the Helicobacter pylori, but giving it a try will not harm you one bit!

My Father has Chronic Gastritis and I told him to take L - Glutamine and he is way much better than with the medicines that the doctors gave him which made him feel bad and had to quite.

I would like everybody to try this treatment because nobody deserves to go through this IBS living hell !

Remember, take between 10 – 30 mg of L-Glutamine ( 40mg max ) and start with 50 billion Probiotics ( don´t go below 10 billion)

I believe that lower doses that this will only scratch the surface of the problem.

Good Luck to all and if it works, please spread the word, help everybody !!!

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I`m with you all the way maurice because I have been there just like you so i can really see your experimentation and reasoning. In the absence of proof of your theory through lack of testing I hold my reservations but I appreciate none of your supplementation is worrying me as these are used and promoted by medical profession numerous studies.

For some years now I refuse pharma-savagery prescribed by the quacks unless it is a life threatening situation. They cause more harm than good in most cases for general illness and have we not evolved a million years already before these?  Sounds harsh but for the majority of human existence you got infected, survived or died....just natures way of pruning the gene pool.

The E.Coli and H. pylori bacteria are found in healthy non symptomatic people so I believe they may play a role in gut health? function from what I have read. But also it does cause ulcers and other problems, so unsure the triggers.

- An article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found evidence that "ingesting lactic acid bacteria exerts a suppressive effect on Helicobacter pylori infection in both animals and humans," noting that "supplementing with Lactobacillus-and-Bifidobacterium-containing yogurt (AB-yogurt) was shown to improve the rates of eradication of H. pylori in humans."

Probiotics! Kefir! Sauerkraut!

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For IBS :

- “Glutamine for the Treatment of Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome”

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01414244

Other Trials:

- “Probiotics and prebiotics in the management of irritable bowel syndrome”

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21892075

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23829297

For Stomach Problems:

-Probiotics for the treatment of pediatric helicobacter pylori infection: a randomized double blind clinical trial.Ahmad K1, Fatemeh F, Mehri N, Maryam S.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23446685

 

- Inflammation and Foveolar Hyperplasia Are Reduced by Supplemental Dietary Glutamine during Helicobacter pylori Infection in Mice1

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714391/

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No Mauirce, not the testing of the supplements.......the test of your gut bacteria is absent to show bacteria levels have changed i what i meant.

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OH, I understood something else. But since I have tried everything else and only this worked out for me... I think I don´t need a test because what I am taking has only action on bacteria in the gut and healing the damaged walls.  I have started first with Glutamine for a few months seeing improvments of 80 %, when I started taking Probioics also , that is when I reached 100% normal. So that tells me Bacterial problems in the gut... right? smile

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I looked into L-Glutamine at my local health and wellness store and I started it a few days ago. My IBS is under total control with only occasional 'threats' when I am not completely regular but I thought if L-Glutamine can do my insides some good, why not take it. I DO take probiotics (Bio K) every morning in my berry/nut/seed/almond milk smoothie. 

I reread your entries and I don't see much on your diet. I think diet is THE most important factor here. If your car is not running properly, konking out, stalling etc..wouldn't you check the gas tank to see if there's petrol in there...and what kind; if it is compatible with your vehicle? 

This is your digestive system so what goes in must be the highest priority. 

 Believe me, nutritionists recommend 6 - 10 fruits and veggies per day as a basic diet. It is not a special diet at all. Consider this as an example of a 'normal' healthy diet:

Breakfast: berries and an apple...maybe as a smoothie in a blender with milk or better still, almond milk with added protein powder...or an egg. Maybe a toast if you are relatively active.

Lunch: a sandwich with GREEN lettuce in it (not iceberg which has no nutritional value). Carrots and celery sticks, red pepper which is very digestible and cauliflower in a baggie. A ripe banana for dessert.

Dinner: a piece of meat the size of a deck of cards, broccoli, beets (from a jar) with a beautiful salad of GREEN lettuce with sliced radishes and cherry tomatoes. 

If you eat potatoes because you are more active, that's fine.  But the above is a typical daily diet. And I will bet that our great grandparents ate this 'normal' way because there was no frozen, processed, prepared foods, junk food, fizzy drinks, crisps and greasy take out back then. I think we have lost our way...and our digestion is paying the price.

Just a suggestion to pay attention...a lot of atttention to what you eat. Veggies and fruit will keep you regular. maybe some fybogel or other form of natural psyllium could help or magnesium at bedtime. 

 

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As regard to testing...

I am neither a rat, mice, chimp or beagle!

Test it on humans not animals to be fair. Its inhumane.

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??? What do you mean ?

Testing with natural supplements is a bad thing?

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No just the majority of these studies are on mice or rats or some animal.

I am a human!

As such its not fair to test on animals is all I am saying.

But you tested on yourself, so fine.

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Hi, I used to have a very strict diet when I had IBS. But that did not do anything except help me avoid extra moments of irritating the bowels, but I still had a lot of issues daily. I think since my bowel walls were damaged, anything irritating would just aggravate it more (like putting lemon juice on an open wound, but the wound is always there). When I started the treatment and got to the point of 100% better, I started eating normal as everybody else, I stopped worrying about eating in a restaurant with friends on occasions. Now of course there has to be a limit, what I am saying is that I am not a diet freak anymore, nor a standard junk food eater. I just eat normal typical European cuisine which includes ingredients that are known as a big NO in our Diet, like tomato sauce. So I eat everything and avoid junk food, sodas and any kind of processed food. I drink coffee also which I missed the flavor so much J

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All of them except for the last one were human trials, you can verify it.

And since we are talking about supplements that are taken daily by people for health or workouts at gym, I just did not see any risk in trying it.

Of course we are not talking here about experimenting with chemical drugs, that is wrong.

I also always double check everything before I try it, I always check on WebMD and Mayo Clnic for side effects and other details.

I always play on the safe side!