messtafarian
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Throughout the year I had near constant diarrhea. It was really bad and had all kinds of dramatic anomalies from day to day -- mucus, frothy, pale, liquid, yellow, orange, sandy, and so on, from day to day it would vary. By the time October rolled around and I got a test for micronutrients nothing was really deficient ( in fact I was *high* in both B12 and D because of supplementation) -- b6, folate and vitamin c were borderline but again pretty much ok because of supplementing. The two things that were missing were carnitine and ALA -- this actually makes sense since I had chronic endless diarrhea, plus low iron and vitamin c which is what the liver uses to make carnitine along with lysine and methionone.
So then I had a bad gallbladder and the thing had to come out. They hooked me up to major pain meds plus IV antibiotics -- flagyl and aztreonam -- for four days.
When I got out of the hospital things were a little dicey and my stomach felt swollen and rough BUT the diarrhea was gone. So was the scary shaking for the most part. Not entirely, but enough for me to be really encouraged.
I saw the surgeon and told him my diarrhea went away and he said that the diarrhea had nothing to do with my gallbladder.
So the only thing I can conclude is that I have a bad stomach infection, one that was giving me diarrhea, and giving me muscle weakness and a fine tremor. Makes sense, right? What other conclusion could you draw?
Only I think this infection is not totally gone since the fine tremor and weakness are not gone and seem to be coming back after a couple days of blessed peace. I went to my doctor to ask for more antibiotics and she did a stool culture that came back negative for everything they test. She would not give me more antibiotics, she said, because she needed to know what she was treating -- and apparently if these seven microbes were not present in my gut then there was no infection.
So now I'm stuck. Doc told me NOT to take the flagyl I thought was going to solve everything because of side effects and I'm a little afraid of it anyway -- but she insisted there was no infection when obviously there WAS one or antibiotics would not have solved a big chunk of my symptoms.
I know there's an infection in there somewhere. There has to be.
I think this microbe, whatever it is, is a gram negative anaerobe. Is there some natural thing i can do to kill it?
So then I had a bad gallbladder and the thing had to come out. They hooked me up to major pain meds plus IV antibiotics -- flagyl and aztreonam -- for four days.
When I got out of the hospital things were a little dicey and my stomach felt swollen and rough BUT the diarrhea was gone. So was the scary shaking for the most part. Not entirely, but enough for me to be really encouraged.
I saw the surgeon and told him my diarrhea went away and he said that the diarrhea had nothing to do with my gallbladder.
So the only thing I can conclude is that I have a bad stomach infection, one that was giving me diarrhea, and giving me muscle weakness and a fine tremor. Makes sense, right? What other conclusion could you draw?
Only I think this infection is not totally gone since the fine tremor and weakness are not gone and seem to be coming back after a couple days of blessed peace. I went to my doctor to ask for more antibiotics and she did a stool culture that came back negative for everything they test. She would not give me more antibiotics, she said, because she needed to know what she was treating -- and apparently if these seven microbes were not present in my gut then there was no infection.
So now I'm stuck. Doc told me NOT to take the flagyl I thought was going to solve everything because of side effects and I'm a little afraid of it anyway -- but she insisted there was no infection when obviously there WAS one or antibiotics would not have solved a big chunk of my symptoms.
I know there's an infection in there somewhere. There has to be.
I think this microbe, whatever it is, is a gram negative anaerobe. Is there some natural thing i can do to kill it?