Nearly a year in

Started with nausea, lightheadedness and a horrible sick feeling that made me want to gag in my throat. Then turned into chronic constipation, was on 12 sachets of stool softener in september 2024 and then november 2024. Was still extremely backed up and impacted. Every time I went to the even with the stool softener i never felt relief and felt like there was still stool stuck in me. Went to an ayuverdic doctor who started giving me tons of Ghee to try and soften the stool without sachets of laxido, sodium docusate, movicol etc but that ended up giving me acid reflux. Stopped seeing her, got a colonic, felt relieved for 20 minutes and then immediately felt blocked again. I started clearing out AGAIN on stool softener and for the first time in a long time felt relieved 1-3 weeks ago. The main issue now is that whenever I reduce my dose of laxido and sodium docusate to try and go to school I don't feel relieved after going to the toilet.

Ive missed all of year 10 so far which means im finished when it comes to my GCSEs in year 11. My life has taken a massive turn for the worse. In April I started using Wim Hof's breathing and that made my nausea, lightheaded feeling go down a bit whenever I was high on oxygen. The technique has reduced my anxiety about academics significantly and has helped me improve. In March we saw a nutritional therapist who put me on a no carb diet. I've been eating meats and lots of vegetables instead. Apparentley carbs ferment well in the intestine and I can't handle it. The diet has helped but im not entirely sure yet. In April she gave me some oregano capsule to take which seems to have made my symptoms worse? I stopped taking it and I have another appointment with her coming up in mid May. I started seeing an NLP (neurological learning practicioner or smth) which helped me deal with some of my childhood traumas. I would say this helped with my mental health too but I haven't seen big physical results yet (The NLP claimed that all of this has to do with my mental health and that it should fix my SIBO). I was really anxious about going into school for a while but the NLP has helped me lots with this and I've managed to get back into school for around half of my lessons.

It's now the 11th May 2025, I managed to complete all of my mocks (school put me into a separate room so I could go to the toilet when needed). I've reduced my dose of stool softener down from 8 sachets of laxido and 5 capsules of sodium docusates down to 5 sachets of laxido + 5 capsules of sodium docusate. My mental health has improved and same with my school life. I still cannot go to the toilet and feel relief after releasing a stool even though its extremely soft though.

My symptoms are still: Chronic constipation (have to have stool softeners to go to the toilet afaik) Light headedness Sick feeling in my throat which makes me want to gag but also make me want to eat... Still cannot fully feel relief after releasing a stool (2 weeks ago I had 3 stools where I had relief but that was on 8 sachets of laxido and + the sodium docusates)

Im seeing the nutritional therapist tmr and will probably make another post sometime in the future.