Hello everyone
I'm really hoping someone can chime in on what they think is going on with me. I'm two weeks out from a colonoscopy and endoscopy and am driving myself stressed thinking about the causes of my issues. This summer my gut health really started to tank. I finally put together that the pain I was having behind my belly button was not my umbilical hernia, but digestive. I had a stressful month of August and towards the middle, I developed loose stools that turned into weeks of diarrhea. I used activated charcoal, but as soon as it would wear off, the diarrhea would come back. I see a Chinese medicine practitioner who was helping me try to get through it, but I wasn't having any luck. I wasn't responding to any of the things that would have worked for a regular bout of loose stools. I saw a video about a guy who healed his Ulcerative Colitis using diet and kefir. I brought the kefir and it has helped a great deal in getting me back to solid stools. Then I noticed what looked like pinworms in my stools. I'm formulating a plan for treatment. I read later that kefir can help fight against the worms and I guess that's why I'm seeeing them now. There hasn't been any blood in my stool. My labs showed a high IgA at 595, high Neutrophils at 7.1, and a low A/G ratio at 1.1. My CRP was high, but that has been high due to Costochondritis and has dropped 15 points since Peating. My ESR has returned to normal since Peating as well. My celiac panel was negative and all other labs were in range as far as the basics that they pull at the GI specialist. The pain behind the bellybutton (and below it) comes and goes and feels more like a stitch or cramp than broad abdominal pain. I'm not taking any supplements or using the adrenal cocktail right now, as I eliminated everything wondering what was going on. I'm a 49 year old female that is still menstruating with huge fluctuations in the cycle. I've got no appendix or gallbladder. My diet right now has been kept light and digestible. Eggs and fruit in the morning, soups and stews for dinner. Kefir with every meal. I really don't have very many people in my life to run this by, so I'm hoping others will share their thoughts. I hope I've provided enough information.
I'm really hoping someone can chime in on what they think is going on with me. I'm two weeks out from a colonoscopy and endoscopy and am driving myself stressed thinking about the causes of my issues. This summer my gut health really started to tank. I finally put together that the pain I was having behind my belly button was not my umbilical hernia, but digestive. I had a stressful month of August and towards the middle, I developed loose stools that turned into weeks of diarrhea. I used activated charcoal, but as soon as it would wear off, the diarrhea would come back. I see a Chinese medicine practitioner who was helping me try to get through it, but I wasn't having any luck. I wasn't responding to any of the things that would have worked for a regular bout of loose stools. I saw a video about a guy who healed his Ulcerative Colitis using diet and kefir. I brought the kefir and it has helped a great deal in getting me back to solid stools. Then I noticed what looked like pinworms in my stools. I'm formulating a plan for treatment. I read later that kefir can help fight against the worms and I guess that's why I'm seeeing them now. There hasn't been any blood in my stool. My labs showed a high IgA at 595, high Neutrophils at 7.1, and a low A/G ratio at 1.1. My CRP was high, but that has been high due to Costochondritis and has dropped 15 points since Peating. My ESR has returned to normal since Peating as well. My celiac panel was negative and all other labs were in range as far as the basics that they pull at the GI specialist. The pain behind the bellybutton (and below it) comes and goes and feels more like a stitch or cramp than broad abdominal pain. I'm not taking any supplements or using the adrenal cocktail right now, as I eliminated everything wondering what was going on. I'm a 49 year old female that is still menstruating with huge fluctuations in the cycle. I've got no appendix or gallbladder. My diet right now has been kept light and digestible. Eggs and fruit in the morning, soups and stews for dinner. Kefir with every meal. I really don't have very many people in my life to run this by, so I'm hoping others will share their thoughts. I hope I've provided enough information.