Antibiotics for sibo? Which one?

Mauritio

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Yes, I take a b-complex and also a little additional niacinamide and biotin, along with magnesium glycinate. I rely on orange juice for potassium. I added the biotin a couple of months into the high dose thiamine; I responded well to it so maybe my biotin function was also blocked. I also take progesterone, pregnenolone, some K, A, and D3. I also take aspirin.
Ok thanks.

Here's a GoFundMe campaign for high dose thiamine study for Parkinson's disease done by dr. Constaninis colleagues, who is often mentioned on hormonesmatter.

 

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Ok thanks.

Here's a GoFundMe campaign for high dose thiamine study for Parkinson's disease done by dr. Constaninis colleagues, who is often mentioned on hormonesmatter.

Thank you. I'm a big fan of Dr. Costantini's work.
 

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There is a supp that is veyr likely to work; it is a combo of three essential oils. It fixed me up after fighting with a horrible intestinal thing for an entire year; abx simply made it worse. It is called Intestin-ol. I tried it after reading someone's report that it fixed her SIBO. Only has three oils and nothing else, in a gel cap. One bottle fixed me permanently.
How long were you suffering sibo?
 

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I want to add some information regarding why I need 2 grams of thiamine hcl. Please note that when someone explains what works for them that it is not a blanket recommendation that everybody follow suit and do exactly the same thing.

I had been taking 100mg thiamine 2Xday for about 6 years and I felt pretty good. It is not the only thing I take. Summer of 2020 I got a bladder infection that was treated with different antibiotics over a 3 month period. One of the antibiotics was Bactrim which is known to block thiamine function. I got really sick. I was in trouble and in a lot of pain (lactic acidosis). I started increasing my thiamine hcl dosage October of 2020; Each higher dose would work for maybe a week and then stop working. I developed a tremor in my right hand. By January I was up to 1.5 grams/day and getting concerned that this high a dose would hurt me. So I researched thiamine some more.

I found Dr. Costantini's website: HDT Therapy and read everything on the site, including his published papers (hidden under Blog). Dr. Costantini successfully treated Parkinson's Disease patients with high dose thiamine. I had read that people who have a history of gut disbiosis are more likely to get Parkinson's as they get older. I'm 71. I had developed a tremor in my right hand. I was having a hard time rolling over in bed and walking across the room was very hard.

I decided to follow Dr. Costantini's protocol of high dose thiamine hcl. I read that my dose should be 2 to 2.5 grams/day. So I tried the 2 grams/day dose. After 2 days on this dose I experienced a really big improvement in my digestive tract which had been pretty much shut down for months. Things just got a whole lot better.

After a week of the 2 gram/day dose, I decided to try 2.5 grams. I did that dose one day. That night, when I went to bed, I experienced shooting electrical zapping pains in my thighs. I read that this is a sign that you took too much thiamine so I went back to the 2 gram/day dose. I've been taking this dose since the first of February and I've gotten my life back. I can actually walk down the road a mile (or two!) and have enough energy afterwards to do strength exercises for about 30 minutes.
Do you take thiamine hcl?
 
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They say rifaxamin/neomycin combo or Allisin for a month. Both are wretched.

Id try the carrot salad and diet for a while before doing that.
I‘m almost one month in with allicin.
 

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It is indeed. I think the bioavailability is around 3-5% with thiamin HCL and thus higher doses are required. The 3 grams of thiamin HCL are probably equivalent to 100-150mg TTFD.
i heard thiamine in foods is often thiamine pyrophosphate
is that the same form as alliathiamine?
whats bioavailibility of alliathiemine and food thiamine pyrophpsohate, 100%?
in that case, even 500mg of thiamine hcl should have noticeable positive effects... maybe absorption increases if stores are poor?
 

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heard thiamine in foods is often thiamine pyrophosphate
is that the same form as alliathiamine?
No that's a different one. I think that's the only one I haven't tried so far ...
 

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No that's a different one. I think that's the only one I haven't tried so far ...
is this all vitamin supplements have poor availability or just certain ones like b12 and thiamine hcl have poor bioavailability
 

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