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Posted by KrisKraft (Member # 4329) on :

Irritable Bowel Syndrome Study Shows That Targeted Antibiotics Lead To Long-lasting Improvement In Symptoms
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051109181127.htm

Yet another "syndrome" that could be caused by a pathogen like Lyme.

I thought it was interesting, since irritable bowel was my #1 symptom before I was diagnosed/treated.

KrisKraft

Posted by WildCondor (Member # 434) on :

Thanks for posting this. My Gi doc tried me on Rifaximin, but the first doese brought on diarrhea again. It would be nice to see them get at the root cause of IBS, and stop calling it a syndrome! It probably is a bacteria.

Posted by David95928 (Member # 3521) on :

Yet another disease for which "successful" intervention is for the patient to be persuaded to give up hope for a cure and in which paients who pursue treament are considered to be "difficult." I hate ducks.
David

Posted by riversinger (Member # 4851) on :

Yep. My "IBS" of eleven years standing mysteriously went away after a month on doxycycline. Hasn't been seen since. [Big Grin]

Posted by bpeck (Member # 3235) on :

ALL- and I mean ALL my GI problems went away after my abx therapy. (And some of the digestive problems, I thought were genetic- just getting older and not able to eat certain things anymore- are all gone too).

The Docs just aren't able to string these things together. I think it's because we have such specialized medicine now - every ones a "specialist" they look at every organ as a stand-alone unit. - like it's not connected to the whole body.
I wonder sometimes if these Docs even understand how the WHOLE body works.

Barb

Posted by vitch (Member # 8094) on :

Now that I am without a LLMD, without abx etc my IBS is coming back. Sometimes, when IBS flared, valium helped.

Posted by troutscout (Member # 3121) on :

I can say that I am again more sensitive to foods...thought yeasties...but, realized..yes yeast , but more likely infection returning...slowly went downhill all spring and summer after being taken off of IV Antibiotics last February.

Trout [Wink]

Posted by millymollymandy (Member # 7703) on :

Hi,
I'm really interested that you should post on this subject right now.

I have been on Cefaclor (I think that the Us is Ceftin)for quite a few weeks now and I have noticed a marked improvement with my IBS - one of my first symptoms.

I had to ration my tablets down to one a day, a couple of weeks ago (doc was away on holiday and I couldn't get my script) for about two weeks and I noticed a return of my IBS symptoms which made me think that they must be doing something for it.

My GP has, in the past, told me that he has seen an improvement in patients with IBS taking Flagyl. I am adding that in with the cefaclor in a few weeks .

Posted by JimMet (Member # 7787) on :

Interesting that after years of believing ulcers were caused by stress, scientists learned they were caused by a bacterium. So, it's not surprising that some stomach problems are resolved by taking abx, whether or not Lyme contributed to the problem. I, too, suffered from IBS until I went on the Perricone Prescription (name of book) diet. I was just eating too many carbs. In only three days I solved a thirty-year-old problem.

Posted by elle (Member # 7721) on :

I was dx with IBS at the Mayo two years ago and prescribed Zelnorm. I haven't taken Zelnorm or had any IBS, colitis, diviticulitis problems since I started my first abx with LD.