How is your wife doing? Are you familiar with the fast tract diet? Dr. If I could only write the drug scripts I wouldnвЂ™t have to experience the two hour wait in the doctorвЂ™s office. So, since I was the one asking for a gastric emptying test, the one who obtained the breath test and the one who prescribed the medication, my WebMD degree has served me well. Since the doctor has refused to refill the script, and progress toward treating the SIBO has come to a stop. He did and I was able to put her on a 14 day anti-bacteria, 14 day probiotic regiment for two cycles. I said prescribe Xifaxan, 550mg, 3/day for 14 days. He said the results looked valid and he asked ME what I wanted him to do. I happened to have the breath test printout with me and told him what I thought her problem might be. As an aside, two months ago, on one of my wifeвЂ™s frequent ER visits, as usual all of the ER test results were normal and the doctor said he saw she was sick but he couldnвЂ™t admit her because she had no diagnosis. I am now in the process of finding another gastro practice who will accept a reject from a competing practice. So I now have a sick wife who has lost seven pounds in the last month with no relief in sight. He also refused to re prescribe any of her current drugs. His final comments were that he was not able to diagnosis her nausea, he didnвЂ™t believe it was SIBO despite the lab report, she should go to the Mayo Clinic and he no longer wanted her as a patient.

Five days later I had the test results back.The problem is the doctor will not accept the suggestion as to what I think her problem might be, even though I had researched chronic nausea on at least twenty medical web sites. I went on line, found a lab, got the kit and my wife performed the test at home. When I asked the doctor to do the test he said the practice did not do the test because they could not find a local lab. Following the Mayo Clinic web site, the next step would be to perform a hydrogen breath test. This meant food was passing thru the stomach without the benefit of the stomach acid to aid the digestion and would now required the small intestine to do both its work and the work of the stomach. The study showed a 21 minute dump, and though it raised no red flags with the doctor, it did with me.

It should be mentioned that in December I requested the doctor perform a gastro emptying study. The medical profession had spent four yeas at a Medicare billed cost of over $250,000 trying to diagnosis her nausea and he couldnвЂ™t accept the fact that in two weeks at a cost of $170 I was able to at least come up with a possible diagnosis. He said that if I was going to use a outside lab for a diagnosis, he no longer wanted my wife as a patient, and beside that, he didnвЂ™t believe SIBO was her problem even thought the lab report showed SIBO to be present. The doctor, who has been trying for four years to find a cause, got upset when I referred to the lab report showing SIBO. Today, even though very sick, my wife went to her gastro doctor to seek some relief from her daily nausea and fatigue I took along my breath test lab report that showed вЂњPresence of Bacterial Overgrowth is SupportedвЂќ.

Small bacterial overgrowth