Probiotic question

Hi!

I was taking 10 billion acidophilis & bifidus. One pill each, two hours after abx dose. I noticed a remarkable difference in how I felt and my sleep improved. Well I accidentally left the refrigerated bottle out overnight and tried taking it the next day regardless. Obviously it lost its effectiveness and I felt horrible yesterday and began experiencing gut issues I haven't really dealt with yet.

I went out and bought another brand with 45 billion strands and took it last night before bed. I had horrible night sweats, insomnia and diarrhea. I thought the more strands the better? This brand was recommended by the guy working in that dept. As an experiment I tried the 45 billion again today, felt nauseous and now have a massive headache.

My question is should I just stick w/ the 10 billion or is more really better? I know different brands make a difference quality wise but both brands have really high reviews.

Any input would be helpful. I'm very worried about candida- thanks!

Thanks bellyful- while I was up all night sick I read past threads on probiotics and the general consensus seemed to say the more peipbiotics the better you are off. I was making improvements with my first probiotic so I hate to take anything that can make me feel any worse than I already do. I was just wondering if others who took abx did fine with a lower probiotic number.

Sniogra, an adjustment period is certainly necessary when taking probiotics. However, your reaction was somewhat different. Perhaps there was a filler in the probiotics that you may have had a reaction to, or if the new probiotics had different strains of bacteria/yeast then perhaps you may have had a reaction to that.

Another possibility is that because you are on abx that the increased probiotics count had a bigger herx reaction that gave you the symptoms. Remember that abx kills the good and bad bacteria alike so the higher the probiotics count, the more bacteria that the abx would have to kill.

I checked my probiotics and it says on the bottle that I can have them at room temperature while traveling without affecting its effectiveness.

Sniogra said...
That's true healing98. I noticed today I have sores in my mouth and my tongue is white. Are you taking abx? Have you managed to keep your gut in check?

I'm oil pulling w/ coconut oil to see if I can get rid of the sores. Just great :(

You just described Candida (white tongue & mouth sores) and so the answer to your question is that you had an increase in symptoms because of a herx from treating the Candida, even though it was inadvertently treated.

You need to increase you detoxing and possibly switch to a Candida diet. Keep your probiotic dose as high as you can tolerate, building up to at least 50,000 units a day.

I hope you feel better soon.

That also likely means that your probiotics were working to drive out Candida and bad bacteria while replenishing your gut with good bacteria.

That depends on how wide spread the Candida is. I've not ever had to do more than super good probiotics - and plenty of them - and stuck to a candida diet for a month or 6 weeks. Then I was careful to always stay on high doses of probiotics and didn't have any more issues.

But, many don't figure it out until the Candida is wide spread in their body, so they need the added help of antifungals. I would encourage you to get started on the candida diet, large amounts of the probiotics and see how you do.

When is your next appt? You could and should most certainly bring this up to your doc. They have very reliable testing for candida that can be done to determine how wide spread it is for you.

Florastor is an $, but good probiotic, btw.