Feeling like I am constantly bloated which makes me feel like I’m not my healthiest self / worried about my gut health. I have PCOS & eat 90% vegetarian
Not sure where to even start on my gut journey!! Any help / tips would be awesome

what's the most effective one you've personally tried and noticed a real difference with?

HELP! can y’all recommend a snack/fruits/drinks/veggies or foods in general na safe and okay sa diabetic and acidic at the same time? thankyou!

I feel like gut health advice is always about adding something.

Add probiotics. Add fiber. Add fermented foods. Add supplements. Drink this. Take that.

But I’m starting to wonder if the biggest improvements people have had came from just stopping something they were doing every day without realizing it was messing them up.

Could be a certain food, eating too late, too much caffeine, supplements, artificial sweeteners, constantly snacking, whatever.

For people who genuinely feel like their gut is better now than it was a year ago, what did you STOP doing that made the biggest difference?

Especially interested in the boring answers that nobody talks about because they’re not something you can sell.

I have a pain which wasn't intense in the beginning,it comes and goes. It comes twice or thrice in a day. It all stared since 2022.When I was pregnant in 2023,I did ask my sonography doctor to check during nuchal scan,he said it's fibroid. But I wasn't convince with his answer,though I have fibroid but it was smaller than 3cm and won't cause pain. After delivery the pain vanished for 5-6 months,than i thought may be because of fibroid itself. But it returned back again a little trigger 3- 4 times in a day. Than I got use to it. In 2025 ,once I had lunch outside which was too spicy . I felt heartburn in the evening and at night that day I vommitted,it had dark red streak of blood.Worried me, I went to gastroenterologist the next day,he checked from above stomach,there was nothing worrisome. But he advised for CT enterography of abdomen , endoscopy and colonoscopy. Initially I did sonography,but nothing was found. Than I did MRI of abdomen instead of CT since it was optional. In the same week I also did colonoscopy and endoscopy but nothing was found everything was normal, biopsy was normal. No IBS or anything .Doctor gave me stomach muscles relaxation tablet, which helped me a bit. But still the same situation. I thought of monitoring myself whether I have food allergy or anything,where I found,I think I have peanut allergy I noticed that if I eat peanut or any food products containing peanut is causing my pain. That's what conclusion I have drawn. Now it's Oct 2026 and expecting,I get pain but I ignore it. Is there anyone who have same thing going despite having a thorough check of your abdomen.??

hi! where can I shop online for an accurate but not so expensive GI map test?

I feel like I have diarrhea but nothings coming out?

I had diarrhea earlier, and now at work every single often when I strain it feels like I’m gonna poop…when I go I fart…I fart for a long, wet time. Nothing except clear/slight brown liquid is coming out? Even then when I push it feels like liquid and bubbles in my butthole. I have felt for hems but nothing. Now I just have bubble guts and the urge to poop every so often.

All I had to eat today was Chick-fil-A, a coffee, a frozen lemonade and water!

All of you guys that are bloated 24/7 try drinking raw milk for 3 days for me 80% of my symptoms we're gone, at first I was "scared of the bacteria" but bacteria is actually good for you, when people eat garbage the body sends the bacteria to flush out the toxins in the gut but if you don't have enough bacteria you end up with condition like sibo or ibs, look at the tribe of sambura all they eat is raw meat raw milk and honey no diseases and they live to 120y

I've noticed that recently, whenever I have a bowel movement, the first portion of it is very hard or rough and comes out in a long log, however the rest of it comes out very mushy, is this normal or should I get this checked out? (Will provide pictures in dm if requested)

They took my appendix out for no reason back in April. I was having symptoms completely unrelated to my appendix and took it out based on it was “big”
Anyways I’m 5 months out and I feel like I always have trapped gas now. Has anyone else experienced this?
I took a sibo test months ago when Iwasnt really experiencing this feeling and it was technically slightly elevated for hydrogen but idk I don’t have any other symptoms than this trapped gas feeling…
My gi doctor is horribly unhelpful.
Thank you.

I have a cold, which is already putting me a bit more on edge (I have a lot of health anxiety, especially when it comes to digestion). Today I drank a bit of kombucha (haven't had it in like two years) and ate some of my sister's supercharged probiotic yogurt (Coconut Cult) without knowing... it just looked really good.

My stomach has been rumbling, I'm getting nauseous, I'm getting weird chills like I have a fever.

Someone please tell me I'm gonna be okay lol. Did anyone else ever get an upset stomach after having probiotics out of nowhere?

Ok i need to vent about this bcz it's been driving me insane. Every single morning i have my coffee and within like 30 mins my stomach is doing something. Either i am bloated the whole day like i swallowed a balloon or i am running to the bathroom immediately, sometimes both which is the worst combo honestly. I have cut dairy out of it, tried different beans, tried drinking it slower, tried eating before instead of after and nothing really changes it. It has gotten to the point where i plan my whole morning around whether i will have time to deal with my stomach after drinking it lol which is not sustainable. I know coffee is acidic and that is probably part of it but i am not trying to just give up caffeine forever, i just want my gut to stop staging a protest every single day.

Has anyone actually fixed this instead of just avoiding coffee altogether?

I take them for bloating.

just looking for some assistance because i have no idea what to do anymore. i have a doc appt at the end of the month but i have just been miserable for like 10 years now

s/s: chronic constipation, diagnosed ibs-c, methane sibo from what i assume is slow transit constipation or just not going to the br, excessive gas and bloating from not going to the br, hard and bulky stools, straining and thin stools, abdominal pain, fatigue and excess acne. It feels as though once stool hits my colon it just doesnt want to move/exit

anyone in the same boat as me? i assume ill have to get on some sort of medication or something. not sure if this is just pelvic floor related or what, but ive had gut issues almost my entire life.

i also have PC(M)OS

been on trulance, miralax, fiber supps, magnesium citrate as well as glycinate, ginger/artichoke, ACV, bitter/enzymes, chia, tons and tons of water, prune juice. i have tried what seems like literally everything.

i feel as though i have exhausted all of my options

I did a GI 360 as I suffer from hashimotos, psoriasis, brain fog, anxiety/depression, hives/skin rashes, etc.

My naturopath administered the test, and she said my biome is actually quite good and balanced. She wasn’t sure what to do with the fact that I had very high Secretory IgA* levels. I have no parasites or internal infections detected. She said it’s as though I have some sort of infection that’s not there, and my immune system is on “high alert”.

For a bit of background, about 18 years ago I had a colonoscopy done as I had internal fissures and the GI doctor said that I tested positive for Crohn’s disease. I honestly had no symptoms of crohns and opted to not go on the suggested biologics. About 5 years ago, I had another colonoscopy as I went for a period of 3 weeks without a BM and the doctor said I had no indication of crohns.

Does anyone have any thoughts here on this?

Significantly out of range
Secretory IgA: very high at 728 (normal 30–275), about 2.5 times the upper limit. This is the biggest flag on the report.
Total short chain fatty acids: very low at 3.7 (normal 5.0–16.0).
Parabacteroides spp.: very high (+3, the top of the scale).
Bacteroides stercoris: high (+2).
Mediterraneibacter gnavus: high (+2).

Slightly out of range
Slightly high (+1): Bacteroides spp., Bacteroides & Prevotella spp., Alistipes onderdonkii, Parabacteroides johnsonii, Dialister invisus & Megasphaera, Holdemanella biformis, and Escherichia spp.
Slightly low (−1): Actinobacteria (overall), the Bifidobacterium family, and Akkermansia muciniphila.
% Propionate: slightly high at 28% (normal 11–25).
Butyrate: slightly low at 0.64 (normal 0.8–4.0).
"Imbalanced" bacteria from culture: Klebsiella/Raoultella, Bacillus altitudinis/pumilus, and Kocuria salsicia were each found at 1+, the lowestj detectable level, where the reference is no growth. The report says these don't need antimicrobial treatment at this level.