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Is Dr. Gundry and "leaky gut" a scam?
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@jord, @tabithatwitch, and all...I'm so sorry your mother is having these issues as well as so many others. It's not fun and can be disabling as well. BTW: you said your mother is 'old'...please, please find other words to use for us older folks. My son all too frequently that I'm an old woman, etc. I take offense at that and it doesn't make me feel loved or healthy or good in any way. Your mom may not have those reactions, but bet inside she'd prefer a different phrase...I like older, older middle age, fierce older woman!!! We are, you know. Fierce. At least inside and many of us are also fierce through and through, or we wouldn't be OLD!
Enough of my soap box...I get my UTI supplement from the same company I've gotten the Probulin, probiotic. I decided since it's the same company, I was fairly safe taking it and gave it one bottle try. I'm now taking it every day, 2X. I'm experiencing a UTI now and am on Macrobid. Doing the same thing I do with antibiotics...adding an additional probiotic in the morning as well as at night, and if I develop diarrhea, I'll take a Lomotil daily until I don't need it. That's my system approved by the PCP and others.
I hope she can find help with this supplement. It's full of all the herbs and fruits we're told to load up on to avoid UTIs but rarely can do that. So, this is good for me. This is the 2nd UTI so far this year. Definitely an improvement. Drinking a lot of water, and eating some but not really hungry, so just enough to know I'll be ok.
Blessings. Elizabeth
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I am unsure why I am grouped in with this reply. My mother has been deceased since 2011 and I would never refer to anyone as "old" unless I was referring to myself. My prolapsed surgery I went through last October failed.. it's worse than it ever was now. The new surgeon I saw last week says I need it scheduled, but I just received a 90 vacate notice on this apartment so I have to move. It's going to be very rough to move all these things into storage and it's looks like I may need to go to a shelter, I am very sick from this failed surgery and there is no one to help me. I have no friends or family that can help me. It's like having no friends or family at all and the way I am feeling is those relationships are forever changed now and will not survive.
Let me tell you about my experience. I’ve had chronic UTIs for 30 years. For the past 2 years I had been taking nitrofurantoin daily for prevention. (Just the way I’m built says doctor.) Last fall on vacation, I got another but different bacteria called pseudomonas., despite taking the antibiotic daily. Very strong bacteria, To make a long story short, the first alternate antibiotic wasn’t effective either so I got a stronger one, then a anti fungal to kill the yeast infection caused by the antibiotic.
All the drugs burned my digestive tract leaving me allergic to lots of different foods- gluten, apples, onions garlic. This created chaos in my system with terrible debilitating diarrhea. Now 8 months later I’m still trying to find out what I can eat and have a very limited diet. Lost 15 lbs and lots of muscle mass, so that it’s difficult to sit for any length of time. I was in bed for days at a time and had brain fog, and the antibiotics Aldi caused nerve damage in my feet.
So think long and hard about taking antibiotics. Can’t eat at restaurants for fear that they will put some garlic salt on food.
I could go on an on, but you get the picture I hope
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@jord...I neglected to mention the company where I get the UTI supplement! Oops...'cause I'm so old!
Research Verified is an online supplement company. So far, the items I've used from them have worked well. UTI, Anemia. Hope this helps.
Blessings. Elizabeth