Update: I’m officially over $20,000 in debt from gut health issues and my doctors can no longer treat me anymore
9 months ago I got food poisoning few weeks later started a garden of life probiotic and then l started having painful bloating and gas. For the past 9 months I’ve been bloated pretty much daily but only in my upper gut as I have a bowel movement daily. At the start of this I was 121 but now I’m 131, the problem is the rest of my body is getting noticeably thinner and only my stomach is holding these 10 pounds completely. I’ve been working closely with many doctor and we have tried literally everything. Tums, a liquid diet, eating every 4 hours, bland food diet and elimination diet,going to the hospital and having multiple test done, going to a GI doctor and being prescribed Erythromycin, DGL licorice root, l've tried gas x, l've tried probiotics, I've tried Omeprazole, warm water, heating pads, oregano oil, peppermint oil, motegrity, ginger, massage gum, Pepcid and L glutamine, sibo test, h.ploryi test, colon cleanses, breathe work, gynecologist appointments, blood test, a 10 day prescriptions of metroNIDAZOLE 500MG & CIPROFLOXACIN HCL 500 MG
However, all my test are coming back negative and the doctors say I’m perfectly healthy but no one can seem to figure out what is going on, because of all of this I am now over $20,000 in debt and my doctors don’t have any options anymore because nothing is working. This feels like a complete nightmare especially now that I have to deal with this alone because everything that normally works is not working for me. I’m honestly really scared I never imagined a probiotic and food poisoning could do this to me. I don’t think I can truly live like this anymore
Posted Aug 11, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC