Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Do you find that the next day, your stomach pain and digestive symptoms get worse? I know that when I don’t sleep well, my IBS and SIBO usually flare…
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SIBO Expert Dr. Pimentel on Drugs for SIBO and IBS
In my last post, I recapped Cedars-Sinai SIBO expert Dr. Mark Pimentel’s Twitter chat on food and diet related questions on IBS and SIBO. Now, I’ll recap his answers to questions about drugs for SIBO…
Read moreSIBO Expert Dr. Pimentel Answers Your Questions, Part 1: Food and Diet
Earlier this month, SIBO expert Dr. Mark Pimentel took over Cedars-Sinai Hospital’s twitter account to answer questions about IBS and SIBO. Although Twitter’s character limit doesn’t lend itself to detailed answers, Dr. Pimentel answered some great…
Read moreMy Story Part 2: I Get Diagnosed with Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
In Part 1, I explained how I developed SIBO and IBS from food poisoning picked up on a trip to Egypt. I left off in 2009, when an IBS expert at UCLA diagnosed me with…
Read moreMy Story: How I developed Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
I remember exactly what caused my SIBO. Over the past ten years, one question that doctors usually ask me when I begin to tell them about my IBS (which I now know is SIBO) is…
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