may have found something

You know how much Yasko stresses the H. Pylori thing, so it might be important for you. Apparently it causes a lot of trouble. She also says that finding it in stool tests its somewhat hard.

@beyond

Thanks. The symptoms can be wide ranging and many people have it apparently.

A few years ago a B12 test showed a deficiency. I asked the doc what was causing the deficiency. He shrugged his shoulders and moved on - a stunning and all-too-typical lack of curiosity, as well as a complete lack of interest in treating my illness.

A little research uncovered H. Pylori as a possible culprit of the deficiency, so I asked for the test (it was a blood test) and it was positive. The doctor didn't want to treat it ("Half the population has it"). I insisted, so he retaliated by ordering the most expensive treatment protocol he knew, a branded "treatment in a box" costing several hundred dollars, which he damn well knew I could not afford.

Fortunately my local pharmacy is staffed by caring folks who routinely go out of their way to help. The pharmacist put together a protocol using a generic antibiotic and some other stuff, called the doctor, and got it approved. This treatment costs about $15!

I don't know if treating the H. Pylori infection helped or not, but it still seems like a good idea, especially in view of the fact that my current doctors have uncovered several chronic infections, which all the previous docs had refused to look for.