sustenex is a probiotic worth trying

http://www.sustenex.com/about/about-bacilluscoagulans-sporeformingbacteria.asp

Never heard of it....

I probably wouldn't choose it becasue it's only one strain.  Hope you feel good on it...keep us posted.

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I think there is actually something to that one strain thing. Our guts have a delicate balance and with IBD we are low on some strains but not on others. If you take too much of strain you already have in abundance I think it throws your guts out of balance the other way. This would explain why a different probiotic seems to be best in different individuals. I have looked into many multistrain probiotics and found that generally speaking most of them have basically the same strains with few exceptions. I have often wondered why it was that VSL works so well in many of us. Even though it has a higher number of total cultures than any other probiotic the list of ingredients is basically the exact same as many other probiotics, with the exception of the one strain Streptococcus thermophilus, which is in very few other probiotics. I often wonder if it is just that one strain in the VSL which is responsible for much of it's success. I wish medical science was to the point where they could analyze each of us to see which strains we are actually low on and we could take only those strains.

I might have to try this probiotic. VSL, Inner Health Plus and a few other probiotics have done absolute squat for me (aside from the mental comfort that I am taking some good bacteria).

Actually the VSL studies that achieved remission talked about taking as much as 1800 to 3600 billion per day while the highest dose of VSL I ever took was 900 billion per day, which is the maximum dosage listed on the bottle. It isn't in my signature yet but I have recently cut back on the VSL and am now down to 450 billion per day. The lower dosage doesn't seem to be hurting me.

interesting thing about probiotics trying to survive the stomach acid.  I wonder if the reason no other probiotic really worked for me was because I have GERD, gastritis and I take omeprazole .... could that be a factor? 

I love coffee...
Thanks for the info. I have GERD too and take the same med you do. I just take it at about 5am during my first bathroom run. It's important to let it get through before any other meds. It can affect the absorption of other meds.

I take Ultimate Flora Critical Care 50 billion. Can't really tell if it's doing anything as I'm on pred. I just got "Benebiotics" based on this forum and will start alternating that tomorrow.

Have a great day everyone

~Cita