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I was just wondering if there is anyone on the forum that has great success with antibiotics

ever time I am on them , I am a new man I no longer have the urgency or the pain of butt burn. I hate to say it but its is great. I asked my colon/rectal surgeon and he stated it may be my case where it actually changes the Flora in my gut. once I am off of them I return. Is there anyone that has been on a long duration of antibiotics and had any problems.

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Hi Steve...this happens to me to.  Once I started to need to be on antibiotics it seems like I am great but within 3 month or less (at times) I am back to pain, butt (extreme) problems, fissures, diaherra, etc.  I actually just called the dr. this a.m. to see if he would phone in another round of cipro.  I am scheduled for adhesion removal surgery in June and I am sure hoping I feel better before then.  Is this what happens to you too when you are done with antibiotics for pouchitis.  or do you have another need for antibiotics.  I have pouchitis, cuffitis, and 2 large ulcers in the  j pouch plus fissures.  Ugh...

Patti

Jan, that is interesting, I never knew of that and I hate to say it I love my carbs, but that is an interesting thought, I must say for years on this forum you have always had good interesting comments about certain things. I will address this with my doctor. I must say I love rice it seems to bind me and I do enjoy bread, so it may be something I should look at cutting back. Have there been studies done with people with J. Pouches and this SIBO

Thanks for your feed back

To curtail SIBO or pouchitis, cutting back carbs and sugars is a must.  Doctors tend to oversell J Pouches by telling the would be J Poucher they can eat everything - which isn't really true for the subset of J Pouch patients that end up with chronic pouchitis and SIBO. Plain and simple, carbs and sugars feed pouchitis/SIBO like dry wood and paper feeds a fire. 

Hi Jan..how does one know if you have SIBO...maybe this is my culprit too.  It's amazing how carbs and sugars can hurt ones' body.  My daughter has severe eczema and I often wonder if diet can help her too.  I've read alot about sugars and carbs and never heard of sibo.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.  I'm having what appears to be a flare up again of pouchitis or may cuffitis.  My bottom is raw again and cramping, diarrhea like stool, almost granular like and leakage.  Dr.Shen wants a lab culture done again to check for c diff before he puts me on antibiotics.  I am scheduled to have the adhesions removed in June.  I never did get approved for the hyperbaric oxygen treatments to try and see if the ulcers would heal.  Have a great day and thank you.

Patti

Often it is a process of elimination. If you respond well to antibiotics, yet there is no indication of pouchitis or Crohn's, then SIBO is a likely culprit. We are more prone to it than those with a colon because we lack the ileocecal valve that separates the colon from the small intestine. So, bacteria can travel upstream from the pouch into the upper small bowel. This is one good reason not to try to reduce your frequency too much, because fecal stasis just promotes more bacterial growth (like a stagnant pond as compared to a running stream). Tough to find that happy medium!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...bacterial_overgrowth

 

One test often used is a hydrogen breath test, but there can be false positives and negatives.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...1856094/#!po=37.5000

 

Jan

CT You are right  My doctor never told me to stay away from carbs but he did tell me to watch my sugar intake.  I found out on this sight about carbs and sugar.  I should have realized that because carbs turn into sugar and carbs was one of the foods that I didn't have pain with digestion outside of getting pouchitis.

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