My Gut is.... Poll

[knackers323]

Hi yes I'm in oz. we can get heavy metal tests done here but I was thinking of things maybe not usually thought of as my heavy metal tests were ok

 

[MeSci]

Hi yes I'm in oz. we can get heavy metal tests done here but I was thinking of things maybe not usually thought of as my heavy metal tests were ok

What instrument do you play?

 

[peggy-sue]

I voted for "fine".
Which it really mostly is.
I have had a couple of bouts of IBS-like symptoms, lasting no more than a couple of days each.

I always put that down to it being just "that bit of me" that was having a bad-ME time.

Other bits of me also have their own "bad-ME" times independently of "the rest of me" too.

 

[AndyPandy]

My gut issues started when I developed CFS. They are pretty much constant and debilitating with alternating diahorrea and constipation, pain, bloating, nausea, gastric reflux etc. I have had some improvement with diahorrea after starting probiotics and I'm now on an elimination diet for grains, fructose, numerous identified food allergies and natural and artificial food chemicals. When my gut is bad my CFS symptoms are worse.

 

[hmnr asg]

My gut issues started when I developed CFS. They are pretty much constant and debilitating with alternating diahorrea and constipation, pain, bloating, nausea, gastric reflux etc. I have had some improvement with diahorrea after starting probiotics and I'm now on an elimination diet for grains, fructose, numerous identified food allergies and natural and artificial food chemicals. When my gut is bad my CFS symptoms are worse.

Same boat here. IBS symptoms are 100% correlated with CFS symptoms.

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[snowathlete]

I was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) around the time I got ME/CFS about 4 years ago, but recently was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. My GP told me this week that she suspects my original IBS diagnosis was really early UC. Don't know whether my gastroenterologist will agree with that assesment or not.
But I saw a paper today about UC and other inflamatory bowel diseases (IBD), which talked about an internal layer of the gut mucosa which is supposed to protect against bacteria but is faulty in IBD leading to bacteria getting into the intestinal lining and causing inflammation. Just thought it might be relevant for ME/CFS too.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24246979