Benzo Belly or Leaky Gut Syndrome?

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Hi Buddies,

 

I've cut sugar, dairy and gluten but I'm still struggling mightily with my gut - swelling, bloating, pain, nausea. It seems that anything I eat hurts it to some extent and some food is far worse than others. However, liquids are fine. Water and coffee have no effect. It's only when I eat something...

 

I'm wondering if anyone sought treatment for the belly and it turned out to be something more serious like Leaky Gut or an ulcer? Is there a way to tell the difference between BB and LGS?

 

Thanks! 

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What do you eat exactly?

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what's "leaky gut" ??  is that a technical term?

[[do...]]

Yes leaky gut is a technical term.

 

I eat gluten free oatmeal, banana, apples, walnuts, nut butter, meat, fish, brown rice, green beans, mixed veggies, eggs.

[[fe...]]

This diet sounds a lot like my new diet. My stomach rumbling calmed down a lot when I eliminated junk food and sugar. I've read that there are gaba receptors in the stomach and they need to heal too during withdrawal, just like our brain needs to heal.

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Leaky gut is the following:

 

You GI tract has it's own nervous system (enteric nervous system)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system

 

Your colon needs to have a specific percent of good and bad for the colon to function properly (thus the enteric nervous system to function properly)

 

If it is altered (the good decrease and the bad increases) through things like poor food, medications, stress, etc, the lining of the colon becomes weak and "leaky" allowing some of the bad bacteria to seep out and cause havoc on other parts of our bodies, specifically our nervous system

 

Hope this helps

[[do...]]

Thank you. I know what leaky gut is.

 

I guess my question is has anyone assumed they were just suffering from benzo belly but it turned out to be leaky gut or something more serious when having it tested? They seem to share a bunch of symptoms.

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Leaky gut is the following:

 

You GI tract has it's own nervous system (enteric nervous system)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system

 

Your colon needs to have a specific percent of good and bad for the colon to function properly (thus the enteric nervous system to function properly)

 

If it is altered (the good decrease and the bad increases) through things like poor food, medications, stress, etc, the lining of the colon becomes weak and "leaky" allowing some of the bad bacteria to seep out and cause havoc on other parts of our bodies, specifically our nervous system

 

Hope this helps

 

 

Thank you for explaining leaky gut, reba. I was also wondering what that is....

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I was diagnosed with it three months ago.  But I actually feel better since I took an antibiotic (Xifaxan) for my small intestine, where I had a bacterial overgrowth, due to the contemporary usage of a previous strong antibiotic (Levofloxacin, that is also the reason in my opinion I started taking Klonopin) and proton pump inhibitors.

I was pretty oversensitive to everything I ate and my abdomen used to pulse after meals.

Now I still have some sensitivities but I avoid gluten, refined carbs and sugar, red meat, eggs, foods rich in histamine.

Actually histamine is extremely exciting. Some foods may relapse it at times, like pineapples, while some others are rich in it, like shrimps, tomatoes and canned fish or meat.

Histamine is an excitatory neurotransmitter (no wonder the strongest sedatives have a strong effect on histamine receptors in the brain!) and has to be avoided in such a delicate fase when glutamate, adrenaline and the other excitatory ones prevail on our impaired GABA.

[[do...]]

I was diagnosed with it three months ago.  But I actually feel better since I took an antibiotic (Xifaxan) for my small intestine, where I had a bacterial overgrowth, due to the contemporary usage of a previous strong antibiotic (Levofloxacin, that is also the reason in my opinion I started taking Klonopin) and proton pump inhibitors.

I was pretty oversensitive to everything I ate and my abdomen used to pulse after meals.

Now I still have some sensitivities but I avoid gluten, refined carbs and sugar, red meat, eggs, foods rich in histamine.

Actually histamine is extremely exciting. Some foods may relapse it at times, like pineapples, while some others are rich in it, like shrimps, tomatoes and canned fish or meat.

Histamine is an excitatory neurotransmitter (no wonder the strongest sedatives have a strong effect on histamine receptors in the brain!) and has to be avoided in such a delicate fase when glutamate, adrenaline and the other excitatory ones prevail on our impaired GABA.

 

Interesting! Thanks Fading 

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I would also advice you NOT to take probiotics nor prebiotics to treat SIBO. They made things extremely worse and my anxiety worsened a lot. Maybe the only exception is Lactobacillus acidophilus.

It depends on the nature of dysbiosis, anyway. Mine was saccharolytic, meaning that a low carb diet would help me to deal with it. It didn't do much (not even 'natural antibiotics' such as grapefruit seeds, garlic, tea tree oil did).

Rifaximin is the first line treatment for SIBO. I tolerated it pretty well and I didn't even get diarrhea from it.

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Well, I use Periactin (Cyproheptadine) 8 - 10mg and that erases my IBS, you should start with a lower dose though (I suggest 0.5mg till you found the dose you need), because it makes you sleepy.