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Posted 5/8/2012 9:59 AM (GMT 0)
 I never thought probiotics did anything for me.  however, recently stools are looser, i ran out of my benebiotics 2 weeks ago  and have not repurchased, thinking they werent doing anything.   but maybe they were helping?  i'm trying to connect the dots and figure out if the loose stools started around the cessation of the benebiotics.  I still drink homemade kefir daily so i thought i was getting my probiotics.  however the benebiotics has sach boulardi which maybe homemade doesnt, ?

how do probiotics help you symptom wise?

Posted 5/8/2012 2:19 PM (GMT 0)
after starting VSL#3 DS, I went form almost no stool formtion to some stool formation. It is slow, but I think I am still improving. Been 60 days, I will keep going for several months before I evaluate.
Posted 5/8/2012 2:31 PM (GMT 0)
I had a great result with probiotic Mutaflor. I was in remission thanks to it without any drugs. By remission I mean no symptoms of UC at all.
Posted 5/8/2012 2:46 PM (GMT 0)
At this point, I have no idea. When I was flaring, but hadn't yet been diagnosed, I started taking Culturelle on my sister's recommendation (she's a doc, not a GI, though). My symptoms got a LOT better, then they got much worse again and I was finally sent to a GI and ultimately diagnosed. So I think that more at the start of the flare, they were able to help, but then things just got out of hand. At any rate, the ones I get aren't horribly expensive, and highly doubt they're hurting anything.
Posted 5/8/2012 5:06 PM (GMT 0)
Probiotics (bio-K plus) definately make my stools firmer and I find when I stop taking it daily (due to the expense) I find symptoms of looser stool, more frequent trips and eventually I head towards a flare.
Posted 5/8/2012 6:29 PM (GMT 0)
The biggest correlation that I have noticed is that when I am taking plenty of good probiotics, my good days are more frequent and less vulnerable to upset from a minor dietary transgressions (my low carb paleo diet helps me avoid symptoms) as invariably occur when eating out or on the road... That's about it though. I increase my probiotics during flares but to be ninest have never noticed it help dampen flares- but when one is unable to tolerate any UC drugs except for pred, it feels better than just doing nothing.
Posted 5/8/2012 7:23 PM (GMT 0)
I have tried so many different probiotics that I could write a very long list:VSL, Dr. Ohhira (both kinds), 3 kinds of soil based like Prescript-Assist, Nature Biotics, Culturalle = about 8 more different ones. But the only that truly worked was Mutaflor. The rest of them just ease up the symptoms, that is all.
I also still have Saccharomyces boulardii +MOS (Jarrow formula), that made me worse, causing more D and gas. So, I had to stop it.
Posted 5/8/2012 7:56 PM (GMT 0)
Probiotics are so strange in terms of personal tolerance- I tolerate almost every probiotic provided it doesnt have prebiotics, inulin or sugars in it, but Mutaflor ironically was one of the few that actually worsened my symptoms.
Posted 5/8/2012 8:14 PM (GMT 0)
I'm pretty certain that VSL#3DS put me into, and has maintained, remission for a while now.
Posted 5/8/2012 11:19 PM (GMT 0)
    They didn't do squat.
Posted 5/9/2012 3:32 AM (GMT 0)
They helped me, NO GAS. At all. I mean, prior to UC I was gassy all the time, literally like a machine. When struck with UC, i changed my diet obviously so the gas was lesser, and now that I'm on VSL #3 I have zip!

Just wish it would take care of bloating. :(
Posted 5/14/2012 4:55 AM (GMT 0)
What I've been able to conclude for my own situation is that probiotics have a dramatic effect on diarrhea.

A few years ago when I had blood, but no diarrhea probiotics did nothing for me. Last year UC hit me hard with diarrhea and probiotics have done wonders.

I started with VSL3, but couldn't keep up the cost so I started making yogurt and then moved to making kefir. All worked great.
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