Help! Sharting! Is it Mutaflor?

Not sure what sharting is but I got quite a bit of farting.

It took a few weeks for it to calm down but I have gone from mild to almost no symptoms of UC. I am doing yogurt and some other stuff to though. Definitely have consistent formed stools which are floaters. Never had those much before even when taking metamucil.

You should be able to tell by skipping just a day. Did you start with just one pill a day?

Oh, wet farts. Been there done that. LOL

Just switched from VSL 3 to Mutaflor. When I sharted twice today, I thought, I'm paying $70 a month for this. WHY???? The manufacturing rep told me that if I kept having trouble to NOT take them both at once. Dose twice a day. But they recommend two at once for some reason.

This is definitely better than VSL 3 because with VSL 3, one to two packets are recommended daily. I can only afford one so you don't know if you are getting enough in your system.

Maybe stopping VSL 3 is contributing or is the problem?

There are directions on HW to use VSL 3 to make yogurt. Can you eat yogurt? I have been thinking of trying this because I definitely can't do both..too expensive. I may be getting better because of the combo of yogurt, pscillium husk and mutaflor(and maybe my tumeric granola)

The studies on mutaflor are on people in remission so maybe it isn't going to work as well if you are flaring.

I ran into this downloadable literature on mutaflor if anyone is interested:

http://www.ardeypharm.de/en/index.php?seite=publications

might be some answers there.

If you take that link and read the PDF on the upper left it indicates that they sell a lower dosage pill in Germany for children and people that have problems with gas. It also recommends split dosing if you get gas problems.

According to them mutaflor aggressively displaces pathogenic bacteria. Sounds like a war going on. LOL

Maybe cut dose back or skip a day? It took me a while (2-2.5 weeks) for things to calm down. I really don't have any gas anymore.

I'm going to try twice a day and see what gives. I love the image used with it. A bright flower arrangement on one side of your colon and a wall of rocks on the other.

I am currently trying Mutaflor as well and so far it seems to increase my UC pain a little (just a little) bit and slightly increase gas-- I may try taking it on alternate days for a bit, then one cap a day, and slowly work up to the recc dose of two caps a day. In the meantime I take a lot of VSL-3 as it is, but want to give Mutaflor a good try since its ingredient - non-pathogenic e-coli- is unique. All strong probiotics may take some adjustment time.

PS on the definition of sharting- if you don't mind hearing graphic language here is a clip from a Ben Stiller flick for a quick laugh... provided it doesn't make you shart...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiNZdTSH3-A

Oh and here I thought we coined the term "sharting" on this board.

I am suprised that a change in probiotic would cause sharts that quickly but I guess anything is possible. I hope you get to the bottom of this. I am thankful I haven't sharted in a very long time, things have to be bad to experience a shart. Then again, I was in bad shape a few days ago, probably could have sharted at any moment but I managed to deny myself the release of wind and have remained shart free. My recommendation to you is to only fart on the bowl!!

Mutaflor makes me gassy, not in a painful way. VSL 3 never did that. I assume it's working. Only time will tell.

The manufacturer says the gas will stop eventually. I hope so!!!

Still on it and have been eating and drinking garbage all weekend with little negative effect. The gas definitely went away for me.

I have never been on that medicine before and I've never sharted before either thank goodness. But I had an interesting though. Sometimes people who pee when they laugh or sneeze have tried doing keagle exercises to strengthen that muscle so they can control it better. Maybe try doing the same thing but with your sphincter. I don't know if that will help but I just thought about it.