Recent content by SFBayFMT5

I agree completely. I was responding to one of Michael's comments that was directed just to me and that didn't actually get posted. He seemed to be trying to create a firm distinction between the "gut" and the "mouth", which is implicit in the very statement "the gut microbiome influences the...

Whether you consider the mouth to be part of "the gut" is just semantics and not worth arguing as it has no concrete implications. What does have implications is whether bacteria can move from one compartment in the digestive tract to another (absent something like FMT deliberately moving them)...

You're lucky that you got significant improvement from treating Bartonella. I had Bartonella, but never RMSF, and the treatment for that made some things slightly better but not enough to really improve my life. The antibiotics for it though gave me recurrent C. diff, and then the FMT for that...

Did it actually diagnose a condition that was confirmed by reputable tests and that was treatable by standard treatments for that disease/condition? The reason I ask is that there are quite a number of questionable diagnoses that you can nevertheless find plenty of practitioners to diagnose you...

Be aware though that excess vitamin C is turned into oxalate, so if you have any oxalate issues this might actually make you worse. DO make sure you aren't seriously deficient in any vitamins, however if you supplement them, be on the lookout for any changes, good or bad. Positive changes would...

Maybe it was confusing, there was a large time gap in there. The timeline was roughly as follows: 2007ish--First diagnosed with SIBO, hydrogen only, and treated with rifaximin without improvement. At that point I had diarrhea, neuropathy, and depressed mood, but no anxiety, brain fog(*), or...

This doesn't imply anything whatsoever about genetics, rather it implies something about bacterial utilization of lactose. Lactose intolerance occurs when there is insufficient lactase produced by the host to break down lactose, allowing bacteria to ferment the lactose and produce gas. So the...

I had depression and sometimes irritability, but not any face swelling. This was when I first was treated for SIBO. By the time I had my FMT, I had developed severe anxiety, but this had started with a stressful experience (though having a messed-up gut perpetuated it--and the FMT greatly...

Is photographing stools really necessary, if you can explain to them what the different stool types look like and ask them to determine which is closest to theirs? Yes you need to trust them, but so do you with other health information like disease and family history (the pathogen testing you...

This is unlikely to make a difference, as it's not the self-administration of the transplants that is outlawed (the FMT doesn't have jurisdiction over such a thing, except possibly if doctors are assisting, and even then, it's likely medical boards that have most of the power) but rather the...

You basically answer this yourself in your next paragraph. It may be more a question of which bacteria are in the small intestine rather than how many. While people who test positive on hydrogen breath tests may indeed be more likely to have symptoms, what doesn't necessarily follow is that just...

This paper is now open access, and I've read it. Here's what I took away: 1. The antibiotic treatment was harsh (3 antibiotics at the same time!) but brief (72 hours). This contrasts with most of us who underwent treatment for things like Lyme (one antibiotic at a time, but many of them rotated...

What about the studies with good results? It seems you don't even have a tag for that. It's pointless to just look at the failures and not the successes--the point is to find the things that are more common in the successful trials than the unsuccessful ones. Of course it wont be the case that...

My own experience and the experience of people I have read about (patient testimonials as well as comparing across clinical studies), this is NOT true. In fact if anything the opposite is true, where patients had good experiences with stool banks/providers who process more extensively and...

The fact that you get worse from carbohydrates that feed gut bacteria is probably the biggest clue that the gut microbiome is a significant issue for you. Most people with a healthy microbiome can tolerate foods that feed it, in fact many of them get better from such a diet, especially since...