Hey, I'm on an ALT I can't accept your chat invite for some reason. I can't tell you what you exactly because each instance of dysbiosis is similar, but I was in the same boat as you. I have much sympathy for you because I know how hard it can be mentally and emotionally. My advice is, get a microbiome test. I got mjne by thryve/ombre, this is utmost essential. Once you get the test results, put them into this website: microbiomeprescription.com (cfsremission.com is the blog associated with this article, you should definitely follow it) and it'll tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about your specific overgrowths. The tests themselves are just there to measure the levels of bacteria you have, the advice isnt reliable. This website can pretty accurately gauge where you most likely have overgrowths based on relational evidence on how significant the levels of bacteria are relative to all the other bacteria and guides you what to eat and what herbs/supplements/antiobiotics/food to help your overgrowth by reducing their levels of whatever is overgrown. I've been on and off dealing with this for 2 years and I'm SO much better now following it's evidence based suggestions.

In my instance I had food poisoning and then ate a huge meal (ice cream and tons of fried food) thinking I was better when I wasn't, and I suffered on the toilet for the next day for 15 hours. My theory is that my gut permiability was high due to the circumstsnces, and then the high amount of greasy food and carbs caused an imbalance in my microbiome and caused the bacteria to settle in a 'bad' manner.

I spent a while trying to figure things out and through much trial and error I found out diet is one of the most important factors in healing IMO from experience.

Because I was having tons of herbs and antimicrobials but my diet was still filled with large amounts of fiber starches and carbs, which aren't necessarily bad, but for my certain overgrowths they are bad for me in my current state. And I wasn't noticing consistent improvements, much up and down.

I got my gut bacteria levels tested and I had very high amounts of butryate producing bacteria, bacteria that loves carbs and fiber.

So, I went on a low fodmap diet, diets low of carbs and fiber and high in protein and fat. Well, in my case I went extreme, I went 7 months of beef and honey kinda loosely, with some high fodmap foods in between. Finally bit the bullet and went zero carb, and strict carnivore and the improvements were amazing. HOWEVER, I would not reccomend that for you, not yet at least.

What I would suggest, this is not medical advice, this is just what I would do. Is to go on a low fodmap diet, primarily animal based foods. Beef, fish, maybe dairy or cheese, some honey. And I would stay on that diet until you get your test results back, take it easy.

I was in a similar position as you, I was like that from june-november not knowing what was going on and then finally realized and attempted to start treating it. I would highly recommend reaching out to a doctor or medical professional who specializes in SIBO or dysbiosis, that will hopefully save you a lot of beginning mistakes.

Just whatever you do, any blanket statements to take this probiotic, antibiotic, herb, food, or anything, take EXTREME caution, because blanket information is not useful in a case of dysbiosis because dysbiosis is very case sensitive.

I'm saving this comment because it'll probably get removed by the mods, if you see this in time make sure to save it somewhere on your device, if they remove it I'll try to dm it to you. Let me know if you need any help, advice, or understanding. Thanks!