After my meeting in Portland with Dr. Siebecker on Feb 6th I was pretty confident that I was going to be able to kick this thing in short order. We had arrived in Portland on the 5th and I found out that my breath test came back positive for SIBO and that it was all methane producing bacteria that were present but a low level of them. The treatment protocol that Dr. Siebecker, Puget Sound Gastro and Dr. Pimental from Cedar-Sinai all agreed upon was 10-14 days of a mix of 1650mg Xifaxan and 1000mg of Neomycin. The dual combo was needed to fight the methane producing bugs.
Category Archives: Health
I Will Never take Doxycycline Again!
In December I wrote a post about our 30-Day Candida Cleanse because I thought I had developed a candida overgrowth from a round of Doxycycline taken in September/October. The symptoms were tolerable but I wasn’t my normal self starting at the end of October. The cleanse diet and the supplements seemed to be working and my symptoms were going down, albeit slowly. What follows is the health epic I’ve been going through for the last month since that post. This may be TMI for some people but I feel I need to document this whole experience so maybe I’ll keep others from having to deal with it.