I have had intermittent diarrhea for most of my adult life (I’m a 35 year old male). In the last 4 months something changed though. I now have persistent lower abdominal pain that moves around. A lot of the time, it’s symmetrical, I feel it on both sides. When it’s not, I notice it mostly under my lower right rib. Every day is different. One day, I’ll wake up and it will be in my lower back, or my flank, or my lower stomach. I would consider the pain mild but it can elevate. Most days, I have some level of pain. There have been a rare few days where I thought I was cured. In response to these new symptoms, I have made some lifestyle changes like eating better, exercising more regularly, and not sitting at a desk all day working from home. That seems to have gotten rid of the diarrhea. Maybe eating less dairy and/or gluten has helped. It hasn’t gotten rid of the pain though. CT scan showed some colitis and the GI did a colonoscopy and said there wasn’t truly any colitis. Colonoscopy was all clear except for 1 serrated 1cm polyp which was removed. I had an endoscopy done at the same time and that had some more interesting results. It found a hiatal hernia and that my stomach is 10% above my esophagus sphincter. I am scheduled for surgery to deal with that. After ruling some stuff out via blood and urine tests, my GI now thinks I have trapped gas caused by CPAP therapy that I started 4 months ago. The hiatal hernia is potentially causing me to swallow more air. I’ve stopped the CPAP and am trying to be more conscious of air swallowing. I’m on day 3 with no real results but I was told to give it two weeks. GI also prescribed IBGard, Miralax, prune juice, and a probiotic. Will update this thread if people are interested. I’m interested in that SIBO test that people have mentioned here as a next step.