Guest guest Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Hello I am new to this group and do not yet fully understand what goes on here but I have been reading through your previous posts and it seems some of you are saying Fibromyalgia is caused by antibiotics. I am asking if this is true because I have been on many antibiotics, not for Fibromyalgia, but for Ulcers and H-pylori. The Ulcers and the H-pylori have not cleared up and more recently I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. What I am trying to work out is, is it the H-pylori causing the Fibromyalgia, is it the antibiotics causing it, or are none of these things related? Thank you so much for your time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 HI : So your situation sounds similar to mine. I have had gut issues since I was 8 years old. After that the fibro started. But back then they called it rheumatism. My mum would tell me I looked like an old lady. LOL I agreed with her. But then I had good days too. Always exercise helped keep me going. I have never been able to go without exercise. If I do I stiffen right up again. When I begin to eat grains again, I will eat gluten free. But I hope to not ever eat them again. I think. Because I too keep my carbs very very low. Grains up the carbs tremendously and I gain weight like a balloon being pumped up. So so easy for me to gain 5 pounds. If I eat carbs I would be gaining about 5 pounds a month. I have done it. I¹ve been as much as 215 pounds. I am currently gaining weight again and I do not know why. I am off carbs, and I exercise. I am seeing a nutrionist and she said its fluid due to a bacterial infection in my gut. So I am working on that and once again I think to myself it all begins in the gut. Recently I have also started doing some prayer work on this with positive affirmations because I must admit I have some really negative thinking going on in my head about my body. I am sure that hinders my health. I was unaware of how negative I was until recently. Wow if I get even a little pain I tell myself oh no, here I go, I am so sure I will be so sick you just watch this. And of course! Voila! There it is. Mind over matter. I make myself sick to a large degree. So I am working on that now. Anyhow, thanks for sharing . rosemarie > > > > > > Hi RoseMarie, > I remember years ago when I had my first attack of fibro. I was only 20 then. > My late husband had to go to another town to do work there as he worked for > the railways back then. He was not a permanently placed person so he had to > work all over the place when the other workers were having their annual > holidays. I had severe diarrhea and didn't know what was causing it. I > thought maybe I'd eaten something bad but it wasn't that. I was in my house > for about 10 days laying down hardly daring to move. No phone, no car, no > way to contact anyone to help me. I felt so ill. > Then an Aunt and Uncle came to visit me unexpectedly and I had to get up and > from then on I got a little better. It didn't end there though. The diarrhea > kept on coming back and I didn't know why. The stupid doctors there knew > nothing about fibromyalgia and all the symptoms. It was a reasonably common > condition though as I found out later. Nowadays they know more about FMS. > I've found out about the gluten intolerance so I steer clear of that and > whatever gluten is in that I WON'T eat. I use rice based biscuits and put > butter and cream cheese or peanut butter on. If my son cooks dinner I have > to be careful what I eat because he uses hamburger rolls etc. > I've found a new brand of big rice biscuits that I can put anything on. > They're almost the size of a saucer. I stick mainly to vegetables and > occasional meat. If I dare to eat pasta of any sort I will be ill for a day > or two after. But there are gluten free products for that too. More > expensive though. > > Re: Hello > > Hi : > > I think from my understanding the way antibiotics are related to fibro is > that the antibiotics kill good bacteria in our gut. Then our gut bacteria > get out of balance and some of the supposedly bad bacteria begins to cause > digestives disturbances. This then means we do not get proper nutrition > from our food and sometimes get what is called leaky gut. When leaky gut > happens molecules of food go into our blood stream causing inflammation in > our muscles tissues and other places too. > > Do you have digestive issues? > > If so, I would go to natural remedies for it like homepathics, naturopaths, > chinese herbs and fix your digestive system with natural supplements to get > your body stronger. > > The other aspect of antiobiotics is that they can lower our immune system > that we are open to viruses. Some believe that fibro is a virus. Nobody > knows for sure but many people have viruses that have fibro. > > I read somewhere online that 42 fibro¹s were tested and 42 of them had a > small intestine infection. This could come from too many antibiotics > lowering our immune system or from allowing our own bacteria to get out of > balance. > > The idea is to create balance in the gut again. You need a professional > that is holistic to tell you how to do that. > > Let us know what happens ok/ > Thanks > rosemarie > > On 6/8/11 4:27 PM, " wendydavidson70 " <wendydavidson70@... > <mailto:wendydavidson70%40yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Hello >> > >> > I am new to this group and do not yet fully understand what goes on here >> but I >> > have been reading through your previous posts and it seems some of you are >> > saying Fibromyalgia is caused by antibiotics. I am asking if this is true >> > because I have been on many antibiotics, not for Fibromyalgia, but for >> Ulcers >> > and H-pylori. The Ulcers and the H-pylori have not cleared up and more >> > recently I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. What I am trying to work >> out >> > is, is it the H-pylori causing the Fibromyalgia, is it the antibiotics >> causing >> > it, or are none of these things related? >> > >> > Thank you so much for your time >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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