Very brief update

The main focus of my treatment plan right now continued to be treating SIBO.  When my guts feel like they are going to pop like a balloon, it's hard for me to concentrate of much of anything else. I do, however, feel as if this is ultimately a good thing because it has forced me return to a better diet.  In my first few years after falling ill with ME in 2011, I was a strict adherent to a diet of no-processed foods, no processed or added sugars, and very few grain-based products.  Over the years I slowly started to slip.  Now the SIBO has forced me to return to a more natural, whole-foods based diet.  

In any event, after a month on two SIBO antibiotics, I went back to my doctor (Dr. M) and reported that my symptoms of SIBO (mostly a feeling of bloating) had improved by about 80%.  Some days the symptoms were gone completely (but that was also true even before treatment).  Dr. M said most SIBO patients, especially, those with the methane-producing form of SIBO, require two one-month courses of Xifaxan and Neomycin.  So I'm back on those two specialist antibiotics for the gut. In the mean time, it is so nice to have some relief from the more intense symptoms.