Maybe its because I live in a not so cosmopolitan city, when I asked the lab tech about it he was familiar with it only because another doctor had been asking for it. This lab tech ended up calling around to all the labs in town and was unable to locate a lab that performed the test. I asked him about great smokies and he said I would need to go to an alternative doc for that. He also mentioned that a different breath test-called the C-14 Urea Breath test, was considered alternative for a long time before it was finally accepted by allopaths. I think that my doc misunderstood me and perhaps thought I was asking for the C-14 Urea test which is used to detect H.pylori. He did mention H.pylori during our conversation.

Geez, I think considering my symptoms I can just assume that I have small bowel overgrowth. When ever I eat xylitol or other fermentable sugars I get gas/diarrhea so bad its incredible. The hydrogen breath test uses a fermentable Sugar too-right? Thats the basis of the test, fermentable Sugar causes bacteria to ferment the Sugar and that creates excess hydrogen (gas)?