SarahBeara
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I have been suffering with my digestion now for over 6 months. Mainly bloating, trapped burps, alternating constipation and diarrhoea and corresponding vagus nerve irritation mental symptoms such as anxiety and pounding heart. It's really getting me down and my life has become very hard.
I presume some sort of gut infection is causing this, I've tried various antibiotics (rifaximin, clarithromycin amongst others), charcoal, raw carrot salad etc and have only gotten worse as a result.
Sugar worsens symptoms and low fiber starches and pure glucose just gives me terrible blood sugar crashes.
The only thing that is allowing me to function and work right now is a zero carb diet.
Having been on a low carb diet before I know the long term usage is not good because of the stress response and increased cortisol caused by neoglucogenesis.
I feel my best shot here is to say on zero carb for 28 days to starve off whatever is causing this.
So I'd love if anyone had any tips to reduce the metabolic stress of undergoing this for the few weeks?
I presume some sort of gut infection is causing this, I've tried various antibiotics (rifaximin, clarithromycin amongst others), charcoal, raw carrot salad etc and have only gotten worse as a result.
Sugar worsens symptoms and low fiber starches and pure glucose just gives me terrible blood sugar crashes.
The only thing that is allowing me to function and work right now is a zero carb diet.
Having been on a low carb diet before I know the long term usage is not good because of the stress response and increased cortisol caused by neoglucogenesis.
I feel my best shot here is to say on zero carb for 28 days to starve off whatever is causing this.
So I'd love if anyone had any tips to reduce the metabolic stress of undergoing this for the few weeks?