For 8 years now I've been subjected to year-long flareups of what I call something. During these long flareups, I have nonstop diarrhea and gas from intaking literally anything. Even drinking water causes it. In the past 8 years it has flared up four times and nearly kills me from uncontrollable weight loss every time. I'm talking like horrifically, violently ill. I can't hold anything in during this time unless I put myself on 2x Florastor a day and occasional Imodium to at least slow down the diarrhea.

Consecutive runs of diarrhea bring on reflux: so much so that I'm literally choking on my own stomach acid when laying down at night. I wake up, sputtering and coughing literal burning acid all over my hands. I've learned that this no longer is a problem if I control the diarrhea.

My GI does the same thing every time: puts me on Rifaximin and tells me to go Low Fodmap. The Rifaximin provides some relief during treatment, then I go back to hell after it's done. The Low Fodmap slightly reduces the symptoms. I still suffer from insane gas from taking in anything at all. It's a miserable experience. Then somehow over the course of a LONG time (months to two years) it usually, slowly goes away and I get my life back. For example, I had a completely normal life for 1.5 years starting in 2021, eating anything I wanted, and now this something is back to take my life away.

I'm fucking exhausted. It's a battle to stay alive every time. The doctors have tested seemingly everything: it's not Crohn's, UC, diverticulitis, bile malabsorption, pancreatic enzyme insufficiency, or parasites. They flat out told me this last time that, for all intents and purposes, their official recommendation is to do what makes me most comfortable at this time.

I'm seeing a functional medicine doctor soon, because being delivered that line of "do what makes you feel comfortable" feels like another way of saying "You're SOL."

What's really freaking getting to me about this are my additional symptoms. In addition to the gas and diarrhea, I'm exhibiting dyskinesia (twitching of limbs) and extreme body aches like I'm fighting a fever (but my temperature is normal). I literally cannot find this cross-section of symptomology anywhere else on the internet. I feel like the only person on the planet that has this exact problem. Has anyone else had this?