Re: Undiagnosed but Resolved Fatigue, Abdominal Pain, Bloating

Well, update 2 months later. The bacillus coaguluns helped but couldn't get me past 90% better. I went to another GI who reviewed files, lots of biopsies in upper and lower scope. Nothing came back, but he gave me Reglan 10mg 4x per day (30 min before meals and at bedtime), Levaquin 1/day, and Flagyl 500mg 3x per day. The Antibiotics were for two weeks. I was 100% back to normal on them. Then, three days later (still on Reglan), I got worse. Back to pre- Antibiotics . Saw the nurse practitioner, and she lowered my dosage of Reglan to 5mg 2x per day since my stomach is back to moving again, reinstated Reglan at 375mg, and put me on the FODMAP diet. I have been waiting for the pharmacy to find the antibiotic, but I've been on the FODMAP diet for a few days, and it is AMAZING. It allows some carbs (rice, potatoes, bananas, strawberries, oranges...) while not allowing some foods that were allowed for Candida (no garlic or garlic powder, no onions or onion powder, no cauliflower, asparagus, limited almonds). It allows gluten free breads (though I haven't tried that yet), and is really relatively lenient. She also suggested looking at some of the Atkins products because they are easy and tend to align well with FODMAP. The FODMAP diet is temporary (~6 weeks). I've found I can cheat some: I have had a small glass of coke in the afternoons and still been fine. Tweet