I hadn’t been well since october, I was feeling weak, no strength for lifting my usual weights, no energy to clean cook ,walk or do daily exercise, no get up and go, but I put it down to taking on too many new patients this year and my kids new crazy afterschool schedules and 6 flights to Canada and back in November so I just kept ploughing on. For a bit of history for any new followers i had pneumoniae age 2 caused by klebsiella pneumoniae and several urinary tract infections age 3 to 6 as a young child and I was on several sets of antibiotics (probably not helped by my mum having undiagnosed anxiety herself which didn’t help me longterm as I got exposure to serious antibiotics too young). This has left a weakness in my microbiome for the klebsiella pathogen to overgrow and take me down in times of immune system weakness. My bloods mid October did show my white cells were up but my doctor never remarked on this so i was left half existing for 6 weeks! I didn’t know it but a A klebsiella pneumoniae infection was slowly stifling my gut all year causing me to feel so unwell. Thank god my hubby was well to carry me and and kids. I started taking methylene blue drops also for what i sensed was another urinary infection in early Nov which have been every quarter since i started HRT due to the fact that progesterone alkalises my body and makes it a growing ground for bacteria to over grow and I started to feel nausea after eating porridge, flaxseed cereal which i never experienced before (klebsiella loves startch). I had days in dec i could barely stand for any length of time, I was working from bed and i was worried about myself as irish medical system can’t identify gut infections yet. So in all i
ended up on 14 days of 3 different antibiotics because what i needed wasn’t being prescribed for me!! and then i had to take matters into my own hands and advocate for myself.
Thankfully I suspected klebsiella wasnt just in my urinary tract but that it originated in my gut and was spreading to my urinary tract over time. With persistance of my knowledge of my bodys previous infections and with the support of some confident colleagues I got the treatment I needed and I was back on my feet within days. I had to fight hard to get specific antibiotics as regular doctors cant see a gut infection on a swab, so they are unlikely to prescribe anything, particularly stronger things they are cautious of about long term side effects. Personally taking them has been best thing iv ever done because now I’ve finally addressed root cause of my bacterial overgrowth and dysbiosis so i can actually feed my gut with special probiotics to take up those empty pockets in my microbiome that antibiotics cleared the way for. My fav is linked in my bio.
So why did this occur, now age 44? Defo experimenting with methylene blue reduced my normal commensal probiotic bacterial levels of bifidobacterium leaving me with nothing good in my gut to fight klebsiella off. Also looking back things started to fall apart in January 2024 when I started increasing protein to support my metabolic health and sleep and stress goals.( Iv learned since my body is just not able to digest extra protein). I just dont have the thiamine levels required to allow that to happen. All that extra protein just put a burden on my already dysbiotic gut. Undigested protein was there being fermented and helping growing klebsiella in my poor gut for 10months!!. I had experienced amazing digestion from July 22 to Jan 24 after 3 years of resolving sibo and mould that was there for ten years undiagnosed, and I didn’t know myself eating and digesting food was so enjoyable for those 18mths when things started to go wrong when I upped the protein.Now here on holidays I’m digesting amazing now and have ditched all my digestive supplements also linked in bio Instagram @gowithyourgutclinic. My new fav probiotic is linked in my bio to buy if you too are recovering from antibiotics and wish to boost your immune system via your gut in 2025. I love this one cause I can add its powder to bottle water and shake to dissolve it and it doesn’t taste awful either. I’d you try any of these things let me know how you are getting on. ❤️ Fiona
