Recent content by SFBayFMT5

There is so much to say here, that's why I haven't replied yet because I've been thinking how to say it without it getting too incredibly long. Sorry to break it to you if you haven't noticed already, but pretty much everywhere except from on this forum, HM is practically a non-entity. If it's...

Where did you get the information that stool length has any bearing at all? I haven't seen anything about that on the wiki or in previous forum threads here. I'd also suspect that length of stool pieces has at least as much to do with the donor's defecation habits (i.e. how much they "push"...

As I said, ALL donors from GD are high Firmicutes (both DF3 and DF7, who I used, but who are no longer offered by them, were as well), as measured by their testing lab in the Netherlands. I wouldn't be so sure that actually means that they are opposite of what you were, unless you had yours...

You can get an idea of F/B ratio by looking at the microbiome report, under "Your Composition" and changing the level to "Phylum". However, note that different testing methods give different, incompatible values for this ratio, such that you can only really compare within a test provider. The...

In that case it really isn't relevant to the question of whether this is a good quality donor or not. And see my second paragraph above. Unfortunately our understanding of the microbiome is not to the point where we would know any better which microbes are most compatible with or important to...

Two issues: 1. Are we talking about the donor or the recipient here? 2. What is more relevant for the recipient than the "root" cause is the most modifiable contributor. With regards to the donor, it doesn't really matter whether the root cause is genetic, or whether the microbiome was altered...

Exactly. The fact that he doesn't even see fit to address serious concerns others have about the ethics of his business (despite being extremely harsh on OTHER businesses) speaks volumes about where his priorities are. If someone actually solved the problem of who has the healthiest...

Yes exactly. The difference between the early symptoms and the stretching sensation was that the early symptoms were relatively constant while they existed, but temporary, lasting only a day or two of the treatment, whereas the gut stretching came on immediately after each new dose and was...

Three days is probably too short, I find that it takes around 5 days for almost any change (dietary, antibiotics, etc.) to reach its full impact on the gut, sometimes to have any impact. Occasionally before that there's somewhat of a "die-off" type reaction, where I feel more tired, have a bit...

I second wanting to know what the goals are now. I have been operating the whole time under the assumption that what we're all trying to do is first to identify characteristics of effective donors through experimentation and then to make treatments from those donors available to patients. I...

In that case rifaximin may just do nothing for you, unless you've had a reasonably curative FMT in between (in my case, I'd worsened again after a FMT and rifaximin temporarily brought much of the lost benefit back).

I don't remember, have you been on long courses of heavy antibiotics before? My gut issues started with years of rotating antibiotics of various classes. After that, taking rifaximin just literally did nothing, even after multiple courses. It didn't hurt, but also didn't help. If you don't...

No but I was told I needed to feed the microbes because rifaximin kills them better when they are actively dividing, so I basically ate whatever I wanted (i.e. however much FODMAPS, sugars, etc.), except for the foods I had been allergic to for life, while on it rather than sticking to the...

A while back you were talking about wanting to get clinical trials of your donors vs. other donors. Though presumably given the fact that you aren't a doctor, you were talking about having other people do the trials, but that doesn't mean funding is unnecessary, rather it means that you'd be...

If you have found multiple donors good enough for a near-complete cure, then I'd gather that you're nearly completely cured? If so, why are you still looking for more donors? Are you looking to go from "nearly completely" cured to "completely" cured? Or are you accepting that the donors who you...