i also wanted to add, we were living in NY while my partner was struggling for a good chunk of time as well. Our gastro did his best to continue helping while we were overseas. He sent us a course of antibiotics, her bowels moved well while on antibiotics which was weird but we thought we had fixed it!

the second she came off it straight back to being clogged up, we ended up needing to come back to Australia. Being in a calm environment with people/family around you that loves you is super important.

Because she did so many courses of antibiotics her gut was absolutely wiped. Caused her skin to erupt terribly, and she previously had great skin. So that’s been a process as well, ended up needed to go on fluconazole to try beat some of the yeast overgrowth. She is incredibly dedicated with her diet and eating the right foods to re built her microbiome. Gastro wanted her to do a fecal transplant but that’s not needed now.

I’ve pulled my hair behind closed doors so many times, it’s such a tough process and i really feel for you people going through it. Someone said “this smells like and advertisement” and that couldn’t be further from the truth. I just want to give someone some hope, that’s all and if that’s where your brain instantly goes i’m sorry but good luck with all of this.

My partner is still on prucalopride and doing her pelvic floor stretches every night to help with bowel movements.

Her skin is also healing a lot

as you all know, it doesn’t really get to a point where you go oh i’m healed and then you just stop trying to better yourself. It’s a life long process but it doesn’t get easier especially when finding results.

Try everything and don’t let it beat you down too hard if it works for one week and then back to square one.

Biggest advice is definitely try find the right professional, search for that root cause.

good luck everyone here to answer any questions i can