Hi,
SIBO is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Your abdominal area is painful and you product gases where you shouldn't be. No not the obvious that we all emit knowingly, or not!
For me it is caused through Autonomic polyneuropathy which has taken control of my entire digestive system from head to bottom. As my digestion is slow and compromised anything more than a small meal/ fluid per day will fill the stomach and cause an overflow into the small intestine of partly or fully undigested food, where it ferments making you look 9 months pregnant and unable to bend at the waist. You constantly are battling what I describe as a stomach full of acid which can come back up into the mouth stripping the lips of the outer skin layer. With SIBO you are limited to the types of food you can eat, but after years of this constant cycle I do tend to stray when I think I have beaten it, only to be left with egg on my face, eggs are acceptable! I basically have to be a good boy or pay the price.
I tend to look at it as this is my life, deal with it and get the best out of each day I remain alive. None of us know when we will die so why worry about it, we all succombe eventually.
Sure I have some really bad days, generally most days are bad, but on the positive side I'm alive. What greater positive can there be.
Cheers