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saint If your still taking LDN you should take the lowest dosage and titer up slowly. Taking higher dosages of supplements too quickly can cause herxing. You need the lactulose test to determine whether your gut is clear of SIBO or whether you need antibiotics.
http://www.positivehealth.com/article/colon-health/natural-approaches-to-leaky-gut
Stomach acid is sometimes low in fibro and you can test yourself with baking soda.
If the test is low you can get an HCL(stomach acid)supplement at iherb.com.
VERY IMPORTANT-IF YOU START DOSING WITH THIS SUPPLEMENT YOU MUST FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE FOR DOSING EXACTLY AS OUTLINED IN THESE ARTICLES!
http://candidaplan.com/blog/699/hydrochloric-acid-and-health/
http://scdlifestyle.com/2012/03/how-to-supplement-with-betaine-hcl-for-low-stomach-acid/
http://www.iherb.com/Now-Foods-Betaine-HCI-648-mg-120-Capsules/398
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Keith,
Thanks for that. The bottle of LDN says 1-3 ml so I'll try cutting it down. It's also disrupting my sleep, even though I take meds to make me sleep.
It's been pretty rough going without pain meds. My neck hurt really bad. Radio told me to use ice & have been doing that. Also, the nerve damage in my hip that dr. did was flaring like crazy. Don't know if it's rebound effect from discontinuing morphine or LDN doing it. I get very weary & overwhelmed trying to figure this stuff out.
I asked fibro doc to run me the leaky gut test & they dismissed me saying "it was very involved". He's a good dr. in many ways, but I'm not getting all the help I really need.
I already ate this morning, so I'll do the baking soda burp test tomorrow. I ran out of digestive enzymes, and took the HCL that arrived yesterday with breakfast. My stomach is always pretty touchy, but I took magnesium glycinate with it, so that should buffer any effects.
The one link says to use HCL with pepsin - but the bottle I bought is straight HCL. Do you think that will work well enough?
Interesting article. I already know I have candida because fibro doc emailed me lab slip for bloodwork. When I went to lab, in my car, before I went in, I checked off to have a candida test run (as well as lymes, parvo & ebv). The last time I tampered with the lab slip, they refused to run any of my bloodwork (used blue ink pen when docs office printout was in black). Switched to different lab & all I had with me was a blue ink pen again! So I rolled the dice and checked off to have the above tests run.
Thank God, the guy didn't question me. Good thing I did it: showed I did have candida, and "past lyme exposure" (guess that means I overcame it.) and ebv & parvo were high.
He told me that "celebrex has no antiviral properties" and wrote script for Valcyte. So who do you listen to???
I had suspected candida so got home-care doc to put me on flucozanole. Fibro doc raised the dosage when he read my bloodwork.
The article from link you gave rang a bell because when I started with stomach problems years back (and they were bad) doctor put me on Nexium.
The one link said probiotics & cultured vegetables can cause histamine reactions - which I know I'm getting because I wake up every morning with eyes swollen. But I read that in order to HEAL leaky gut, you need probiotics. Very confusing.
The NSAID on the Doc Pridgen protocol is worrying me. I know that NSAIDS are always bad for gut health- so haven't made a decision yet to continue on that.
I took more powdered vitamin C to continue killing any SIBO. Also ordered enteric coated peppermint because I read that kills it too.
Any of your thoughts on this would be welcome.