Technically speaking, I had SIFO not SIBO
2 years ago went from being able to eat anything and everything (though I ate very healthy for the most part) to having the prolematic bowels ever. As all/many of you know, it's just so damn horrible to deal with this on a daily basis.
My symptoms, in the order they appeared:
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Extreme small intestine water retention. Any time of day you could move my belly and hear water sloshing around, regardless of how long it had been since I last ate or drank.
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Extreme bloating from all foods. Tried all kinds of stupid diets. There was no rhyme or reason to my bloating.
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Constipated watery diarrhea, if that makes sense. Had trouble consistently going to the bathroom. Sometimes it would be two days, other times 2 minutes between bowel movements. And always so much water. And the smell, horrible, rotten, disgusting.
Treatments that I tried.
It's easier to say what I didn't try. Didn't do elemental diet (though technically I did for a short while with homemade protein shakes). Didn't try rifaximin, just wasn't easily available to me.
But I did try damn near every other antibiotic, herbal antibiotic, prokinetic, herbal supplement, diet & food restriction, massage/acupuncture/yoga, westen/eastern medicine, and all the stuff I've forgotten. If it's been mentioned here, and I had access to it, I did it.
What actually worked:
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Fluconazole (antifungal). This changed everything. This is what started my path to recovery. Effects were noticeable within a day.
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Doxycycline (antibiotic). While the yeast were dying off, the bacteria started growing. This kept them in check. No, herbal antibiotics did not help. Yes, I tried them all.
Fluconazole and Doxycycline were dosed daily at a standard SIBO treatment dose (from research papers) for 2~3 months, basically until my symptoms completely went away and I forgot to take may medicine. Had a few small relapses that were effectively treated with 1~2 weeks of fluconazole and doxycycline.
- Stool hardeners (absorbed excess water from intestines). Psyllium and Diosmectite were the base, a couple grams of each with each meal. Additionally, gluten. Gluten was such a big help. Whenever my stomach feels off, first thing I do is add more white bread or white flour noodles to my diet. Rice is helpful too. Applesauce and bananas, not so much.
4). Stress reduction. One point near the end, I just said "fuck it." I went any ate anything and everything
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
But nobody ever mentions his sister, Onya, who invented the starter pistol.
Bob
