Re: SIBO, Candida and Fun Times!

Hi frostymug! I appreciate your reply. I learned much from your posts and in fact I hoped that if one person responded it would be you! It's great that after being cured, you still participate here.

Very, very interesting about the spacing between the prebiotic/probiotic, and especially useful because my galactomune just came in. In fact I was indeed worried about gas-causing bacteria in probiotics -that is why I use L. Salivarius. I used PB8, which contains inulin, early. I switched to L. Salivarius quickly -it's an unusually strong lactic acid bacteria that helps regulate the rest of your flora. Here is a PDF that summarizes it very well: http://www.healthcareinstituteforclinicalnutrition.com/sites/default/files/UCC118%20The%20Story%20of%20a%20Targeted%20Probiotic%20Lactobacillus%20salivarius.pdf

I also read in research studies that it tends to rapidly outpace other lactobacillus when a subject is inoculated with equal amounts of all strains, though I don't have a reference handy. If anyone is interested I can come up with it.

I chose this specifically thinking I could take as much as I like with no possible ill effects, unlike many broader spectrum probiotics that contain many strains that should probably keep out of your small intestine. This was especially true as at the time I suspected severe malfunction of my ileocecal valve which separates it from the colon. You may consider this strain to run amok as it likes with galactomune/lactulose, but I digress and cannot yet back it as I'm still figuring this out myself.

I saw much less controversy on the benefits of galactomune than lactulose, and found a small amount of journal-backed evidence on galactomune, plus it's available on Amazon in the U.S., so I went with it. However, I was aware that you promote lactulose. For now I will stick with the one prebiotic. If anybody is reading this looking for answers, the idea is that galactomune is a more complex chain of sugars that you cannot digest...and nor can candida. However, your friendly lactic-acid making bacteria can, giving you a way to feed the good guys while starving the bad guys.

Fascinatingly enough, when I took the lactulose breath test, I expected much burping from lactulose. Instead, I hardly burped at all, and the only reading of high hydrogen was at the way beginning -BEFORE I took the lactulose. Though ANY high reading is interpeted as SIBO, I couldn't explain this to myself at the time. I now realize it's likely candida was making the gas, and perhaps even had to go on the defensive as bacteria enjoyed the lactulose. Crazy stuff!

All the Salivarius hype aside, currently my problem is too much candida and too little bacteria following a round of Antibiotics . Thus my switch to a broad spectrum recently, though I stack it with L. Salivarius still. For anyone reading, use a probiotic WITHOUT inulin. It will feed your bacteria, AND candida. The idea is to replace inulin with galactomune (or perhaps lactulose, as endorsed by others on this forum). If I knew candida was such an enemy, I would have taken probiotics while on the Antibiotics . At the time though, I was regarding bacteria with enmity and felt it counterproductive to send many probiotics to their deaths. Knowing what I do now, I would HIGHLY recommend bacillus coagulans and saccharomyces boulardii. They are "good yeasts" and in theory would not be killed by Antibiotics and keep candida in check while your bacteria take a vacation. Many varieties of Synergy Kombucha contain them, though if you're avoiding Sugar it's a dubious option. Get a supplement. With NO INULIN! In my current state, I think I will let Primal Defense Ultra and L. Salivarius get all the freedom they want to fight the yeast, perhaps taking them WITH galactumone. I don't want to discriminate against the candida in the small intestine! But I'm still very glad I have frostymug's tip for down the road.

My joints are still popping, though not as bad as yesterday. After covering myself in castor oil yesterday, I added coconut oil (again, why not.) Lounged around 20 minutes, then took a hot bath with epsom and Sea Salt . I was frustrated that I didn't intimately understand how it would interact with my body or even make me more alkaline and was unable to ascertain this in ten minutes of sloppy oil-covered research (good thing for the Internet, this wouldn't have flown in the library). I decided though I was spending too much time reading and too little time taking action and experimenting, and made the friggen' bath.

The first thing I pondered sitting in the water was "is this how oily-ass sea mammals feel?" The second was how the extremely unusual combination of oil and salts would work. Would my skin attempt to release toxins, but be clogged up by oil? Would the magnesium enter through my skin, promoting oil to absorb and deliver sweet oily justice? Then my friend texted me and I temporarily dried my hands to use my phone because I'm an American and thus unable to do only one thing at a time.

20 minutes later, I drained the bath and followed it with a hot shower to rid myself of oil (I use pine tar soap) followed by a quick cool rinse. What happened is that I became extremely calm and peaceful and lay on my bed motionless, partially because I was so calm and also because I couldn't stand my joints popping anymore. I meant to take Interfase Plus biofilm disrupter before falling asleep, but failed. I awoke at 5AM in exactly the same position with random itching all over my body. I downed some probiotics on an empty stomach, a half hour later doing glutamine/collagen/colustrum, and an hour later a novel breakfast when I went to Whole Foods to buy MSM and Glucosamine. Their turkey bacon had two ingredients: turkey, and lactic acid starter culture. Pork bacon just found its replacement.

I decided the glucosamine point deserved its own post so I put this one on hold to write it. If you have candida, you want this information badly. Here you go: //www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=2274513#i

After doing the above research yesterday I knew I had to acquire some glucosamine sulfate first thing in the morning. I took it twice today with MSM. Let's hope it helps. After dragging myself to work from the store, my employee told me I look like shit, and I said "great! I like to convey congruence with my feelings." Terrible brain fog, dizziness, lethargy, many dumb but benign mistakes, etc. I then noticed small random red spots on my skin and some that looked like bug bites (but probably weren't). I took it all as obvious die off reactions. Yesterday was also the first day I started drinking Kombucha with candida-terrifying "good" yeasts. I left a bit early.

I am typed-out for the night and will be back! I hope this information will be useful to some people but in particular I hope I am on the right track. Please note though I am very confident I can beat it with sound research and sheer aggression, I haven't yet and you should primarily be listening to those that have like frostymug. Look at his posts, they contain a wealth of information.