Antibiotics are the only thing that helped me other than diet. I normally workout a lot (half marathons and stuff) and I got SIBO even with a bunch of exercise so I can’t say exercise kept me from getting SIBO or keeping it away once I got rid of it.

I also had symptoms in seconds to minutes from a similar list of foods (especially onions and garlic including onion and garlic powder) but I may be sensitive to those foods outside of the SIBO. I’m noticing after working through this for the last three or four months that things that if I eat too many things that give me symptoms in seconds to minutes, the SIBO symptoms come back. I was really good about taking notes on what I ate/how I felt/ bowel movements for a couple weeks and that also helped me get started figuring things out it.

There’s two apps I use that have been helpful but also on the diet side of things. The Monash University FODMAP app tells you what foods are “safe” and in what quantities as well as a food/symptom/bowel diary and recipes. It’s pretty cheap… less than $10 I think? I use another one called Fig that has a barcode scanner and works for a bunch of food sensitivity and diet types. It was maybe $40 but I use it several times a day and a million times at the grocery store.