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How bad is the 48 hour stool collection for fat and bile?
Digestive Health | Last Active: Sep 12 10:48am | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
Hydrogen breath test, stool test for malabsorption of sugar, and intestinal biopsies while undergoing a colonoscopy are tests available for ASID. I believe mine developed due to gut dysbiosis and leaky gut. Toxins are being released in my bloodstream as a result of damage to the small intestine. Although I have not been diagnosed officially, this does make sense. It's difficult, as you well know, to get a correct diagnosis especially with traditional medicine. So we're on our own to be our own advocates. I have learned a lot from the elimination diet but it is a rather time-consuming way of finding things out. No sucrose, fructans, or lactose. I drink Horizon 2% (due to fat malabsorption) and lactose-free milk. I soak Oats for oatmeal because of phytates but I also take vitamin C since that's supposed to help with that because oatmeal can actually give you leaky gut. Strawberries help with diarrhea, so I try to eat a little every day and I eat only green bananas. Unripened bananas are a prebiotic (food for the good bacteria). Currently I'm taking a broc elite supplement and a good probiotic as well as keeping up with prebiotics. Hopefully, this will help. I've been suffering with a weight-loss issue that I can't seem to get past but I just started eating more often and smaller meals and it seems to be getting better. It very well may be from a combination of all of the above. We'll see. You are more than welcome!
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Were you able to get the 13C sucrose breath test? I suggested it to my regular doctor and she got it confused with the 13C urea for hpylori. so corrected her on that to see if she will order the sucrose one. she might not have known about the sucrose one. but sent her a link to order it and send it directly to me if her lab doesn't do it. I had a GI map done that covers all of parasites, good and bad bacteria hpylori and lots of stuff. doctor ordered it through Diagnostic Solutions via Rupa Health. Insurance won't cover it but it cost around $315.
I got the serum test for Bile Acid and it came back in the grey range, not low enough to be positively a no and not high enough to be a positively yes that I've got BAM. So it is said that you can have bam issues in that range still (perhaps not as severe?) So the next verification is the 48 hr stool test. Which is the booger to locate. I have tested negative for fat in stool, pancreatic insufficiency coloscopy was normal, no intestinal inflamation.
My GI map did indicate a very low level of Hpylori but she wasn't too worried about that as many people have it in their system. BUT...am i the one that even a low level is being affected by it? will approach that with next visit.
I'm finding it super hard to completely eliminate sugar in my foods! I've always been a sugaraholic.
So yes it is either truly BAM or sugar, is what I beleive. And since I can't seem to get the 48 hr test I have to battle it out with getting rid of sugar completely. Fingers crossed that doctor will order the breath test for the sucrose enzyme. At least eliminate or verify one more thing.