Wow, thank you for the reply. I've been on probiotic for about a week when I started FODMAP. I took paxlovid during covid (May 2022). I had the gut antibiotic earlier this year, so quite a long time in between, but it was to address SIBO like stuff. This is the 1st I've heard of H-Pylori and C-Diff but I think this is along the right track because of the timing of this. Which was in the middle of my worse symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea - and I took paxlovid on Thursday afternoon and woke up Friday morning with the distention - literally overnight - and it continues unchanged today. I've continued to exercise throughout and of course stay well hydrated(I've been athletic all my life). I attached a pic I took the following day(5/28/2022) as I was so shocked at it - that's not what I looked like prior.

From what I've been researching, my theory is that covid attached my whole abdomen area (stomach, intestines, etc) and hasn't resolved. I think everything is inflamed/swollen as all the tests show no ascites or anything else they look for in the endoscopy, colonoscopy, CT scan, X-ray and mri. So no doctors have been able to help me, which is what led me to the FODMAP, I'm doing it for the 4-6 weeks but I don't think this is going down the right track - although there's no downside to it.

I've looked a hundreds of articles on abdomen distention and covid stuff but nothing that is similar to my situation of happening overnight and remains unchanged day and night and no matter what I eat. I do feel full all the time I think because of the inflamation.

So, I wish it wasn't, but that's my story