I've had enough of this chronic fatigue and pain. Having issues with my liver, is this because of biofilm related infection?
Hello, for about 10 years I’ve been struggling with chronic fatigue and systemic pain along with various
food sensitivities (can not eat any sugars/carbs/or starches). I’ve had numerous tests all come back inconclusive about any sort of parasite/fungal/bacterial infections and not so convincing results from metal tests. I am losing my mind because no one seems to be able to give me an answer anywhere I look. I’ve had a comprehensive stool test come back positive for an increased amount of pseudomonas aeruginosa. I’ve also had numerous blood tests come back with low neutrophils signifying some sort of infection.
Any time I took natural antimicrobials it would work for a good several weeks and I would start to feel better, then all of a sudden just stop working and my body would start to degenerate again. It's so frustrating because I'm consumed by brain fog/chronic fatigue and constant pain in my limbs/joints/eyes and my abdomen is always sore. I’ve had a sibo test done and it came back just slightly above normal (according to the test it resulted in still being considered “positive”) for methane-based gas. Now I’ve read that this could be contributed to poor liver function and various other things going on causing methane build up that would also be associated with ibs (which I also have. Lots of difficulty with having regular smooth BM). The doctor I was seeing at the time didn’t seem to concerned over it and concluded that it would be fine for me to even take probiotics.
It was suggested to me by someone on this very forum that it could potentially be biofilm related (which wouldn’t surprise me because I’ve had a rather extensive history of
Antibiotic use). About a couple months ago I started taking NAC (1500mg per day) or rotated with a blend of enzymes from a product called biofilmX by vita-aid. Designed to specifically dissolve biofilms. It seemed that the first few weeks were pretty astonishing. I had felt a lot of positive feedback and started taking natural antimicrobials again and started noticing that I was gradually feeling better, albeit very slowly and a lot more sluggish feeling overall (I’m assuming this biofilm is releasing toxins into my system or something). My BMs were doing better and I wasn’t feeling exhausted to the point of passing out every day. Fast forwards a couple of months and I’m starting to notice my bms are once again difficult to pass, and I’m particularly getting a lot of floating/greasy stools almost every day along with infrequent pains in my liver that come and go. I’m starting to get a lot of brain fog again and my energy is once again depleting. I’ve been taking 6 liver support pills that contain milk thistle, schisandra, artichoke, dandelion and beat a day before meals a long with the occasional Swedish bitters. It’s the same damn cycle all over again. I start to get better then all of a sudden a switch clicks off and I start spiraling…
Does anybody have any insight as to what is going on? I’ve never really delved into biofilm related stuff before and no medical professional I’ve talked to seems to have any idea about how to address biofilms. I’ve read that you shouldn’t self diagnose with biofilm because it can become extremely complicated. But I have nowhere else to turn and this seems like it might be the missing key to what I’ve been trying to accomplish for so long. Is there any test I can even do to figure out what biofilms if any that I have?