ljimbo423
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Jim,
I just did the elemental diet and herbs for two weeks. It was so hard but I started feeling better. Not long after starting food I got worse again with fatigue and just nausea! So I’m thinking I may have SIBO and it may be causing a lot of my problems. What has worked for you? I don’t have CFS nearly as bad as I did a year and a half ago.
SIBO/dysbiosis is extremely common in CFS. The most popular diets for SIBO/dysbiosis are the GAPS diet and the specific carbohydrate diet.
Both either completely eliminate starchy foods like potatoes, rice, pasta etc. or almost completely eliminate them. So that's my main focus, to eliminate those starchy foods.
That's where I would start I think, if I were you. Then tweak the diet until you get the best results from it. After that I would add herbs like neem, ceylon cinnamon, holy basil (which is also good as a sleep aid, so I take it at bedtime), oil of oregano etc.
I don't know how familiar you are with die-off from the bacteria in your gut dying off but it can make you feel really awful. You probably experienced some when you were on the elimination diet to some degree.
I would encourage you to make these changes slowly. Because as I said the die-off can be anywhere from mild to really, really awful. I would make one change at a time starting with diet and see how that goes.
Then incorporate the other things after diet is well established. I'm happy to hear your CFS has improved! You must be doing something right!
Jim