Culturelle seems to work

what is your dose on culturelle? I am new to this. I take Jarrow eps. My naturopath said it was a good brand.

I have been taking the recommended one pill of Culturelle a day. It took about a month to kick in, after causing bloating and other messiness at first.

Let's keep each other posted about the success of Culturelle.

Since others have reported that any improvements from taking a probiotic won't be seen for at least a month, I'm hoping to report some good results about Culturelle in a few weeks. Right out of the chute I can say that I haven't gotten gas from it as I did when I was on Kefir.

I have thought about the VSL3, but am waiting to see if Culturelle keeps working like this. If it works for me, then it works, and I don't need anything else.

Maybe.

mitzo, I have thought about taking Culturelle but do not know where to find it in Ottawa.  (I have taken VSL#3 before and it is not always easy to find a Canadian supplier, besides which it is very expensive and not generally covered under drug plans.  Where do you get Culturelle?  By the way, great to hear that you are finally getting some relief.

You can get Culterelle at any Walmart.

If you live here in Ottawa Canada you can order Culturelle from this site: http://www.spectrumsupplements.ca/en/c314949/p16788005.html

$30 for 30 pills, enough for a month, shipped from Montreal in a day or two.

Mitzo -

While I agree that probiotics can help quite a bit, you still have to keep tabs on you diet, or you will never know if someting is helping, or just muting some of the negative feects of trying to eat normally. I was in denial for my first couple of years of UC, and I tried my hardest to maintain a regular diet so that no one would know about my "terrible secret". It wasn't until I truly put effort into modifying my diet, low residual foods, less fat, low carbs, eating smaller meals thorugh out the day, that helped me to figure out the probiotics really did help, but they required me to help them.

I've also noticed that when switching probiotics, it usually takes anywhere from a couple of days to a cople of weeks before my intestinal flora adjust to the new bacteria being introduced. You intestines are an enclosed environment, and aren't used to much change. It is kind of like the TV show Survivior. When you introduce something new, it takes a little while for all the bacteria to meet each other, become friends, and decide if the new strains are better than the some of the older strains. And if an older strain is voted out of the gut, it puts up some resistance. You have to give it time, and take it easy during the crossover.

As the old show Kung Fu said "Patience grasshopper. All will become clear when you are ready." I think I've been watching way too much TV lately. If I start quoting CSI, someone please pull the plug. lol

Hmm... have had three bad days now, after a fairly long run of better ones. Culturelle, after almost 40 days, should work better than that, I should think. How defeating.

Anyone else had this kind of cat-and-mouse situation with Culturelle or other probiotics like this? Improvement, backsliding, improvement, backsliding...

has anyone taken ultraflora?

I've been on Culturelle for two days and have had really bad intestinal gas.  Is this normal or at least a side effect for some?  How long should it last?  It is getting embarrassing.