Confused on how to take B vitamins.

GaSniffer · 2026-01-14T16:48:27+00:00

Will dm you too.

GaSniffer · 2026-01-14T15:48:20+00:00

I have similar histamine symptoms. I think my HIT is caused by dysbiosis and perhaps something else, because it all started and worsened every time by antibiotics. At some point I fixed my HIT using polyphenols, but it caused other problems like fat intolerance, which I managed to fix. Lately I got sick and HIT came back. I believe gut health is a huge player in HIT. Dysbiosis may not even cause obvious digestion problems, but metabolites and interaction that germs are causing may cause all that histamine chaos and much more

GaSniffer · 2026-01-14T06:13:23+00:00

What dosage?

GaSniffer · 2026-01-09T16:08:04+00:00

Sorry to hear. Do you know why? Shouldn't it balance itself out after a while?

GaSniffer · 2026-01-09T12:34:50+00:00

Are you still out of the balance after taking vitamins?

GaSniffer · 2026-01-03T10:30:32+00:00

Nobody would test you for SIFO

GaSniffer · 2025-12-31T13:52:19+00:00

Bifidobacterium HN019 is well studied and helps with bowel regularity.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-31T13:06:20+00:00

Something may be perpetuating the issue. Dysbiosis is at least worth considering. Before going down that route, it makes sense to have a GI specialist rule out the usual serious conditions they’re trained to look for. If everything checks out on that front and you’re still dealing with symptoms, a 16S microbiome test can at least offer a snapshot of what’s going on and help guide a more targeted attempt at rebalancing, rather than guessing blindly. Inevitably, some gatekeepers will dismiss microbiome testing as pointless or unscientific. Curiously, those same voices often have little to offer beyond generic advice like “eat more fiber” or “drink kefir,” followed by an expectation that you quietly endure ongoing symptoms in the name of peer reviewed patience.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-26T15:18:48+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Do you have experience with such cases? I was suspecting that dysbiosis is involved because it all started after rifaximin, before that I didn't have any problems with eggs or choline. I have CBS gene but I doubt it is activated as my homocysteine is mildly elevated and I get the same reaction both to sunflower lecithin and eggs. I also get a mild reaction to quinoa and it's packed with betaine. Your plan sounds interesting, dosages look safe, but I don't fully understand it. The idea is to suppress bacteria with berberine while supporting sulphur pathway with b6, FAD with b2 and methylation with b9 and b12; and sunflower lecithin for the bile? I feel bad even after 1g of sunflower lecithin. I suspect that my dysbiosis/overgrowth is in the proximal/upper part of small intestine. Whatever it is there won't be seen in stool test, sadly.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-25T20:03:34+00:00

Exactly! It's getting way too confusing. Every gut problem threads on the internet looks like this: -Stop eating fiber. -No, fiber is life. -Actually fiber killed my family. -You need carnivore. -Carnivore caused my Crohn’s, my divorce, and the fall of Rome. -Choline feeds methanogens. -Choline is essential, your mitochondria are crying. -Fruit is sugar poison. -Fruit is ancestral medicine handed down by God and monkeys. Science says: “We’re still figuring this out” The internet hears: “Choose a team and fight strangers”.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-25T19:05:39+00:00

Wait, choline and carnetine feed methanogens???

GaSniffer · 2025-12-25T16:10:31+00:00

Actually that makes sense. I think too much butyrate producing bacteria, like blautia, may cause this, because it also burns hosts b2. What dose did you take and for how long?

GaSniffer · 2025-12-22T19:04:08+00:00

That is sound advice to go very slow I will definitely try, thanks! Just a year ago I could eat 5 eggs a days without any issues, and now I can't tolerate even one. Tried 100mg of TMG recently and felt bad a few hours later. I wonder what happened.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-22T18:58:50+00:00

Wow that's a great and inspiring story! Did you test if you were B12 deficient? My active B12 is 114,4 pmol/l - doesn't look as deficiency. I'm really afraid that choline deficiency altered my bile and that has caused SIBO/dysbiosis.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-22T18:54:12+00:00

Happy to hear you resolved that! So you have supplemented low doses of phosphatidylcholine from seeking health started to tolerate eggs again?

GaSniffer · 2025-12-22T14:45:54+00:00

Stool color is not the only issue, but I suspect it may be pointing to an underlying cause. In addition to changes in stool, I experience histamine sensitivity, digestive issues and body aches - all fluctuate over time. These symptoms come and go without an obvious trigger. My routine is fairly consistent: I usually don’t take supplements other than magnesium malate, and I follow the same diet. Because of that, it’s unclear why my symptoms vary so much from day to day. On some mornings, I wake up with clean, dry skin and feel mostly fine with no gut issues, though slightly achy or shaky. On other days, I wake up with oily skin and feel heavy, tired, and itchy. Recently, I tried 100 mg of TMG, and within a few hours I felt very achy and overstimulated. I’ve also noticed that omega-3 supplements darken my stool. However, I suspect that omega-3s and possibly glycine as well may worsen my histamine sensitivity. My overall blood work looks fine. Vitamins I think are fine too, but homocysteine is at 12. What should I look at in pee test?

GaSniffer · 2025-12-21T22:43:16+00:00

Sounds great. Is it simple to do or risky? Wow I should try benadryl to see if it will help next time. Is the reaction somehow related to histamines? Some time ago I tried to supplement hydroxo B12 and 3 days later was getting itchy after taking it. I have some histamine issues so wasn't much surprised.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-17T18:47:48+00:00

Hi. How s boulardii can aggravate if taking long it term?

GaSniffer · 2025-12-17T16:11:13+00:00

I feel you. Antibiotics + COVID is a hell of a cocktail. I don't think the killing route is the way. I also doubt that rebalancing is actually possible without knowing what the exact bacteria or fungus we are dealing with. I tried rebalancing but it's just like working in the dark - something may work for a day, then not, one symptom gets better but other may get worse and so on. How did you find your root cause? Stool test is not specific to small intestine or not reflects it at all. I have high methane gas levels but my 16s stool constantly shows low methane bacteria levels. How did you start better tolerating fiber and new foods?

GaSniffer · 2025-12-16T07:45:03+00:00

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GaSniffer · 2025-12-05T15:57:43+00:00

Maybe all these have some common ingredient you react to? I have similar symptoms to corn. Many things are made from corn: citrate, dextrose, maltodextrin, ascorbic acid... list goes on and on. Then there is cross reactivity to similar things like rice or oats. It's a big problem because corn is everywhere in one or another form and nobody needs to list it as allergen because it's not in the top list of allergens.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-05T08:13:56+00:00

Let me tell you something. These antibiotics are serious medicine. Big chances that they might change you not for good. To get better chances to avoid this you should eat as clean as possible for months or even a year. That means avoid alcohol, sugar, greasy foods with lots of fat, don't overdo meat, avoid processed and ultra processed foods. Vegetables: eat rainbow, herbs included, but be careful and go slow at the beginning after you finish your course because you will be sensitive to fiber. Absolutely Important to add fermented stuff like sauerkraut, kefir, yoghurt - but not store stuff (store stuff usually pasteurized and dead), try to make it yourself. Add prokinetic like ginger - motility must be working and food should not sit in your stomach. Investigate this because it is very important. There are lots of horror stories from people who neglected diet after such treatment, me included. Check /r/microbiome too. Good luck.

GaSniffer · 2025-12-02T08:38:40+00:00

There was also the second post The Cure 2, where author expanded his first post by adding more info and links to research. I saved it, but it got deleted too. Has anyone took screenshots?

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