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Are Antivirals and/or Antibiotic cocktails the Cure for LC?
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Hi,
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Curious, what symptoms were you experiencing with diverticulitis? And how often did it come back? Did you also have IBS or SIBO for years prior to your diverticulitis? Also, what age did it occur?
My symptoms are also IBS type symptoms which I’ve had for years with suspected SIBO. Also my CT scans are negative for diverticulitis. My doc says 53 is young to have diverticulitis. And diarrhea started my onset from my taking long term Paxlovid for LC so more likely not diverticulitis.
I also find it significant that Rifaximin helped me tremendously with everything even beyond gut symptoms such as brain fog, energy levels, decreased PVC’s, improved allergies and no more hypoglycemic feelings that weren’t hypoglycemia. This to me points to gut infections causing my LC issues as well as my long term IBS being a precursor. I could be wrong, only time will tell. But…
Rifaximin has been shown to improve gut flora when taken cyclically. Also, doxycycline has been shown to improve symptoms without full systemic treatment. Here’s an interesting article https://patientresearchcovid19.com/hypothesis-matrix-metalloproteinase-inhibition-with-low-dose-doxycycline-in-long-covid-and-me-cfs-pghj-issue1-may2023/
Here’s a good article on Rifaximin helping down regulate bacterial infections:
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00350-X/fulltext
Rifaximin for IBS, a meta analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10558962/
When you had diverticulitis, what were your precursors and symptoms? Did you try Rifaximin? If so, did it help?
Also how long between episodes of diverticulitis did you have?
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My diverticulitis began over time and initially was just constipation and pain in a distended stomach. I wouldn’t be able to make a bowel movement or release gas at all. The only remedy was taking antibiotics with Flagyl and over time the antibiotics made my gut worse. I don’t really know if there was a difference between IBS and what I had, but no I never was diagnosed with IBS or SIBO, but I use to get UTI’s and Yeast infections a lot when I was younger and those were symptoms of a gut issue. I am now 68 and had the colon surgery at 66. I would have bouts of diverticulitis if I ate certain foods, things with seeds in them and then after a while, no matter what I ate, I had issues. Severe stomach distention and pain around the left side of my belly button. The episodes of diverticulitis came more often from my late 50’s to when I had the surgery at 66 years old. Since my surgery I do not have those attacks any longer, but in December of 2022, 8 months after my colon surgery, I caught Covid and lost my taste and smell. To this day, I still don’t have it back. I’ve done all the “things” I’m suppose to do and still no taste/smell. I even quit smoking the day after my surgery.
Good luck to you and I would stay on the pro and prebiotics and try to eat as clean as you can, meaning no junk food, fresh fruits and vegetables and fish and lean meats.
To answer your question about Rifaximin, I don’t know what that even is and no I did not take it.