After my meeting in Portland with Dr. Siebecker on Feb 6th I was pretty confident that I was going to be able to kick this thing in short order.   We had arrived in Portland on the 5th and I found out that my breath test came back positive for SIBO and that it was all methane producing bacteria that were present but a low level of them.  The treatment protocol that Dr. Siebecker, Puget Sound Gastro and Dr. Pimental from Cedar-Sinai all agreed upon was 10-14 days of a mix of 1650mg Xifaxan and 1000mg of Neomycin.  The dual combo was needed to fight the methane producing bugs.

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