Yep. She’s cursed, I swear. We’re 35. It kicked in for her back in high school. So 20 years of trials. I’d take it on from her if I could. Her uncle, grandfather, and great uncle had the same issues.
34 also going on about ten years and untreated for the first seven. I had duodenal ulcers via h pylori, and after that was treated we found giardia.
Getting rid of the h pylori made a huge impact (no more severe heartburn and vomiting acid). Before that, it was debilitating at times. After that, just insanely irritated bowels every single night for about a year. I got tied of swallowing pills, so saw the doctor, played in my poop, and we found giardia.
Inspite of getting the giardia out of my system, I had no change...still irritated guts every night. It felt like the Battle of Antietam in my guts; we always lost. I let that continue until about a month ago.
The doctor suggested trying the six elimination diet, so I did and started with lactose. It took two weeks, but two days of zero symptoms back to back followed by two days of extremely mild symptoms followed by yet another two days of zero symptoms. Yeah, I'm pretty fooling happy right now ... Only took the better part of ten years!
There'sa colonoscopy in there somewhere, too. Why not right?
Edit - drinking water, outside, at the fire.
