Probiotics causing bleeding

You may have to try a few different ones till you find one that works good for you. Everyone can be different.. All I take is acidolpholus and it works well for me.

Kletter, the same exact thing happened to me when I took that very same probiotic. I did it for about one week and got much worse. I had to stop. I was taking 8 capsules of VSL per day and cut that in half to four and then took four of the Renew life. Soon after resuming the the VSL at 8 capsules per day again I felt much better. Just this last Sunday I decided to try Florastor which really had a lot of solid info on it. One capsule and within a few hours I was having bloody diarrhea. It took me two full days before I was back to where I had been before taking that one capsule. I would quit that one now (the renew life critical colon). If you do a search you may find a post I recently had regarding all this. The post was titled Renew Life Critical Colon 80 Billion. Have you tried VSL? I am starting to believe in two possibilities more and more:

1. our problems are due to an imbalance of gut bacteria but the problem is that we are too low on one or two particular species (different in everyone) and that is the only thing we should concentrate on. By taking too much of a species we already have in abundance, we are keeping our balance off in the wrong direction. We have to figure out which ones we are low on and only take those. Multistrain probiotics could actually do more harm than just taking the one or two we are lacking.

2. Our body's immune system is attacking one particular good bacteria and that is not only causing an imbalance but is also causing our inflamation. Unfortunately, if we try to reintroduce that one bacteria we are lacking, our body's immune system goes on a bigger attack to get it, causing us even more problems. This may be the more likely scenario of the two. I also believe that biofilms are in the mix as well and connected to all of this.

Sherry and imagardener2 what brand and exact probiotic are you on?

Gary- thank you for that great post! I definitely agree with you on your two points. Good timing too because I'm just doing research on VSL3 I think I'm definitely going to bite the bullet and buck up and get it. Is there any way to get insurance companies to pay some? (I live in Canada). Are you feeling good now on VSL3, remission? Can ND doctors figure out which bacteria you are lacking? Hmm you are provoking a lot of good thoughts!

Quincey- I just took one pill a day for two days and now am going to stop since they were causing slight cramps within a couple hours of taking them. I started my enemas again about two weeks ago. I did one week of every night and now just finish a week of every 2nd night (my goal is to try and taper off them or at least to every 3rd night).

I think stopping the medication caused the issues, not the probiotics. I'd go back on the rectals.

Wow, I'm going to look into monolaurin, it sounds interesting. I believe though that yeast and fungus are two different animals. good luck.

Sucks about getting EBV from a hospital stay

kletter....take the probiotic at bedtime, don't stop.

You should have stayed on nightly enemas for at the very LEAST 3 weeks.
You're flaring...it's not the probiotics.

Your goal shouldn't be to taper off the enemas, but to stop the flare and then taper to maintenance.

And just a little truth. Your butt rules. So you mentally will not be able to hurry the enemas. And since you're knee jerk reacting thinking its the probiotics and tapering the enemas, you're just confusing yourself in what you believe to be true.

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jse: you are taking a different probiotic than what we mentioned. You are taking Ultimate Flora Critical Care with 50 billion cultures of 10 different strains and the one we were taking is Ultimate Flora Critical Colon with 80 billion cultures and 14 different strains. Yours has 3 strains of Bifidobacterium while ours has 7 strains of Bifidobacterium. Even though they both have 7 strains of Lactobacillus, 6 of the strains are identical but each has a different strain for the seventh one. It is very possible that there is something in those four additional strains of Bifidobacterium or the different strain of the Lactobacillus that doesn't agree with us for whatever reason. There are others who had the very same problem taking the Renew Life 80 billion version. I know in my case that it was definetly the probiotic that wasn't agreeing with me and it happened again recently when I took one capsule of the Florastor. It just has one yeast probiotic in it and yet it tore up my insides and had to quit after just one capsule. I think everyone has a problem with different strains in their system and that's why there is never much agreement on which probiotic works best. It depends on what is wrong with your system and which strains are in the probiotic you are taking. If you don't do it right then it either doesn't help or makes you worse. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell what exactly is wrong with your system so you have to figure out probiotics by trial and error.

I am glad someone posted about this. about 2 or 3 months ago, I ran out of my usual probiotics and bought a bottle of Ultimate FLora Critical Care from a local store. A couple of weeks after I started taking those (instead of what I had been on, flare-free, for over a year), I started seeing blood in my poop. I finished up the bottle of Ultimate FLora and switched back to the other probiotics, but hadn't seen any difference yet (it has been several weeks now). I was wondering if there might be a correlation, but wasn't sure since there was such a long delay between potential "cause"(switching probiotics) and the "effect" (blood). So I think it's interesting that others have experienced similar things, and that we all react differently to certain strains of the so-called "good" bacteria. Hmmm....