After finishing up three rounds of herbal antibiotics on September 8th I retested for SIBO on the 15th, waiting a week to get the herbs out of my system. This time I also did a 2 day prep diet to hopefully avoid the very odd results I had at the last test. Finally had some good news from a test – I made a serious dent in the bacterial levels going from a peak of 49 ppm methane (CH4) to a peak of only 10 ppm methane, that is an 80% reduction in levels. The other good news this week is that I weighed in at 155.4 on Wednesday, finally crawled up to my interim goal of 155. This is almost 8 lbs up from my low point in May. Now I’m aiming for 160. I really don’t know if I’ll ever get back up to 170 given the low carb diet I’m going to have to stay on but when I was in really good shape running I was at 165 so I’m ultimately shooting for that.
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Herbals round 3 – Done
Today I finish up my third round of herbal antibiotic treatment for SIBO. In June I started taking Berberine Complex and AlliMed after a bad relapse in May. This didn’t do much so I switched to a higher dose AlliMed and Neem protocol in July and did two 30-day rounds of it. The first 30 days I couldn’t handle the Neem too well and had to cut it in half but for the last 30 days I decided to just suck it up and deal with the discomfort that the Neem caused and ride it out sinec I was assured it would make a difference. Luckily the upset stopped after a week and I’ve actually felt petty good for much of the last month. I still have a few symptoms after dinner each day so I think the SIBO isn’t quite knocked out but is teetering a bit.