Thats great to hear you're making some progress.
1) Well I would have a goal to do 100 quality kegels a day: 4 sets of 25, with a moment or two in between each set. I would usually do them while lying on my stomach so I could make sure I was doing them right. I was desperate though, so I did a lot more repetitions throughout my day. If I was sitting down, I'd do 25 or so until I felt it tightening back up again. I was very conscious to constantly keep it tight. While I was standing, I'd do a lot as well. I remember one day it started getting a little painful because I was doing it too much. All in all, I did 100 within 5 or 10 minutes, then another 100 or so, but spread out throughout the day. To be sure I'd suggest anyone should do reps until they feel the tightness, then an hour later, retighten it until you don't have to.

2) My anus tightness issues resolved actually very quickly. It was almost immediate. I remember doing a set of kegels for the first time before bed and it felt like my anus started having a normal tightness again. The next morning I felt a nice difference. But I say it was three days before it was fully normal and tight again. And then seven days when I was absolutely sure. After my problems resolved it's like I barely had to do them anymore, which is strange. I do a set of 25 maybe once a week cause I barely need it.
3) I was a huge dairy lover before my discovery of it causing my FBO. I started having FBO and Acne problems from dairy, just out of the blue. It wasn't like that before but I guess as you get older your body becomes less compatible with certain foods. I found that milk was the biggest culprit by far, when it came to making my poop smelling like a sewer and filling up a room. Other dairy products like cheese, yogurt, butter, and foods with traces of dairy had very much less of an effect on smell. I don't really know why.
Before I discovered my dairy problem, I ate huge amounts of it. I'm talking pizza, mozzarella sticks, and glasses of milk often. Since then I have stopped drinking milk, from one to three glasses a day to none(but I still eat it in alfredo pasta or baked goods). I don't use butter in my cooking. I substitute any milk with almond milk, which is vegan. I can have cream cheese, cheese, or pretty much any dairy product besides milk without it inducing a sewery smell. Even though I can, I just don't because it will still give me cystic acne. (I take Antibiotics called minocycline from my dermatologist though, so my skin is very clear now.)

Sorry for the long post haha. Just wanted to be clear.

Thanks so much for the post.

Maybe you should talk to a therapist or something. I had to be put on medication for my paranoia but I don't think you have to go that route. I do think a therapist would help you sort through the thoughts and get you back to some sort or normalcy.

I think the anxiety and paranoia post-cure faded over time. There was nothing I could really do except reassure myself. I knew I was cured and the comments and reactions stopped altogether, so there wasn't much to be worried about. Sometimes I'd write down quotes and stuff that I'd remember throughout the day. Like anxiety and paranoia can be worsened by your own thoughts and you must tell your brain to stop sending itself anxiety signals. Or I would sneak away and close my eyes (and lay down if I could) for a few minutes to meditate and gather my thoughts, which I highly recommend. After those few minutes, I'd come out into the world with worries seeming so much smaller and feeling very calm, with a new clarity of a situation. Once you get good at meditation, that place of calmness gets much easier to reach. You can go from needing ten minutes, to five, to one minute, and then 20 seconds.

I went to a family doctor and she prescribed me a tiny amount of xanax to help me get through work for a few days (I was out of school by then). It sort of taught me how an anxiety-free, paranoia-free person feels and thinks, or at least how I imagined. Before, my thoughts would echo a lot in my head and I'd be too conscious and in my head, but with xanax I kind of learned a new skill to stop the echoing and just calm down. I've only taken it like three times because it's a controversial and addictive drug, if you take it too much consecutively. I haven't ever gone back to it though. I don't wanna depend on drugs or do them.

I work as a pizza delivery driver and deliver to strangers and interact with people at the restaurant a lot. So that definitely helped me out of my social anxiety comfort zone once I cured myself. In customer service you have to learn composure, and once you have that down, you kind of start to believe you're composed and calm and friendly.

So yeah: meditation, a short stint with xanax, and my job helped me regain my non-anxiousness. The paranoia and anxiety was intertwined so they both got better as I worked on either. Going through that mental journey will help you grow a lot but it takes time. Always remind yourself of logic: If no one has said any "stinky" comment in so long, then there is nothing to worry about. Even further, for big crowds, I find it easier if you're not at a social gathering. Try being by yourself or with people you trust, go eat at a busy restaurant, or a recreational area, or a fair, or a gym or anywhere crowded where you can be anonymous. It'll be uncomfortable at first but having confirmation that no stranger reacts is very reassuring. And then move up to social gatherings and higher pressure situations and eventually your paranoia and anxiety tolerance will heighten.

That's awesome! Did you have cystic Acne linked to dairy as well, or no? What brand of lactose enzymes do you take? I am missing pizza.. lol