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Digestive Health | Last Active: Oct 10 9:56am | Replies (32)

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@carolinlv

I have also dealt with a moron in urgent care. This pinhead helped to ruin my gut biome, and I have not been able to recover from it since. You sound like you are in the same age category as I am… the one where people drop dead. Because of my stomach pain and problems, sometimes I wish I would! Wondering with all your knowledge if you have ever used probiotics? I am being heartily encouraged to take them-specifically Align. I had a bad experience a few years ago when I first tried them and stopped very quickly. I was healthy at the time, but it was all the rage so I jumped on the bandwagon. They made my stomach hurt really badly and gave me horrible diarrhea so I stopped them. I feel like I’m kind of in that place a lot of days anyway so why worry about it? Doctors haven’t been able to help me other than suggesting I start them. Do you have any experience in this area? Or does anyone else reading this thread have any help for me?

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Yes I certainly do. During that episode of bowel inflammation which would have healed by itself instead of being murdered by augmentin, !!!!! , I was told to try a probiotic so I bought Florastor. It's outrageously expensive, the Pope makes it at night so that's probably the reason. Forget it. Of course, my bowels were already missing its colony of bacteria so whatever the Florastor introduced cause GAS PAIN that sent me BACK to the ER and there was no infection or anyting, and DIARRHEA for DAYS. Recently, because my gastroenterologist doesn't seem to know much about anything, I tried acipophlus. They make these tiny little pearls very easy to swallow and I started taking one three days a week, went to four days a week, then every day a week. Mind you, this is the most benign probiotic on the planet. Well, it gave me copious amounts of BM and THEN it turned the BM into sausage shapes and darker brown and THEN it pretty much gave me such bad dry mouth (I looked it up, it's a side effect) in the middle of the night I had to get up and get a hard candy. SO I stopped it BUT it takes a couple of weeks to really get back to normal. My BM finally did get back to normal yesterday, a full week, but it did something to my sense of balance too because now in the morning suddenly I'm getting weird feeling of dizziness, that's a rare side effect. DON'T DO IT. And yes, I'm in the age category where you just drop dead and I wish I could.