Hi Seattle,

The usual stool tests or endoscopy RARELY helped me or my family diagnosting something . My guess is they were poor performed.
Almost 3 years of these in the same way brought nothing, lost my job and everything....I'm Eastern Europe based.
 

This year I»ve changed the approach/labs/docs and the below tests helped me figured out some: all of the tests / trips / consultations/etc on my money biensur: and for me was a lot of them:
- SIBO Test in London => confirmed SIBO but not specifically what is it; for me was a good start thou after 3 years of all in my head; I also tried normal stool test in UK (GP NHS like) in january but came back negative of course
- G1 Profile in Germany similar with GEnova or Metametrix (good flora/bad flora, parasites, pancreatic enzymes...) => not so much very specific but found very low good flora, enteroccocus found; plus blood vit.D very low that convinsed me about infections
- Stool samples in a Gastro hospital in the capital city (after enema !!! from the enema I took like 5-6 sample from different parts especially mucus) => here they found giardia, candida with old school style - microscope one (rarely these days)

- simple scotch tape test for pinworms in the same gastro hospital in the capital city (the fifth hospital „visited“ in the last 3 years) but with some efforts and "fights" with the medical staff. mind you when I ask my doctor there to perform it he did not know such tests exists !!! major hospital. no comment . the lab put on the results „enterobius vermicularis“ and the doc asked me „what the h..k is that?“ major hospital. I

- blood antigen/antibodies for HP and Yersinia in a private „clinic“

I'm now trying to get find new labs/private to help me circle more around the problem. God help!

dave