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Thanks Knitty

Your knowledge of the b vitamin is unreal. I don't recall ever having heard of the riboflavin influence on candida and look forward to a little more help in controlling the beast. Carbs are a problem for me particularly bread, rice and pasta. Worse was my addiction to refined sugar, however, pleased to report that I gave it up for the most part a year and a 1/2 ago and as a result have felt better on a relative basis. I absolutely love sourdough bread which will no longer be on the menu once celiac diet is started if celiac confirmed. Hopefully my appetite and desire for carbs decrease as gut starts to heal.

Candida and its biofilms are a tough act to beat despite lab findings, at least for people who have had it for decades. The horror stories that I have read about. Some seem to beat it and months later they are back to report that it's back and worse than ever and don't understand why. I, on the other hand, have learned to live with it while trying to control it. 

Anyway on a happier note I have been taking 50mg of allthiamine in addition to b complex for over a week and feel calmer for it. I'm talking about noticeable calm. I increased to 2 tabs allthiamine couple days ago. So thanks for the heads up.

That might be true for a person with a normal appetite but mine is insatiable either because of gluten or candida or both. A sibo/candida diet is all about no carbs. Here is just a sampling of foods that one would never think to be on the list.

Avoid starchy vegetables such as carrots, sweet potatoes, potatoes, yams, corn, all squash except zucchini, beets, peas, parsnips and all beans except green beans. They all contain sugar and can lead to Candida overgrowth. You should buy your vegetables fresh and eat them raw, steam or grill them.

"What isn't clear to me is whether an endoscopy would or wouldn't help figure out which issue is causing your problems?"

That is exactly what is not clear to me either. I guess I agree with help even slightly that I will probably go for it. Sometimes just talking it out helps clarify the issues. It would have been helpful if I could have done that with my dr but he is not interested at all in sibo.

Chances are high that I have both celiac and sibo. The herxheimer reactions over the years pretty much confirm candida overgrowth to me but can not say for sure that it's in the small intestine. 

Going gluten free will not be easy but something that I could and more than likely would do on its own but sibo clouds the issue. Getting rid of sibo with antibiotics is one thing but severely limiting carbs on top of gluten free is something that I would not attempt at this stage of senior citizenship.

Many if not most of celiac and sibo symptoms are the same and intertwined. It seems that going gluten free would not heal the villi if sibo is also keeping it down. Am I not seeing this properly or would some sort of partial healing on a gluten free diet provide wellness notwithstanding sibo? Do you think that I should still do endoscopy given the above conflict? Thanks.

 I am scheduled for endoscopy the end of May and concerned about small intestinal bacterial overgrowth's affect on villous atrophy. I would rather not go on a strict gluten free diet if sibo and not gluten is the culprit. I have had candida overgrowth trouble for many years even though the doctor pooh poohed it my very first office visit. Is it automatically assumed that celiac is present if villi are atrophied even though in reality the atrophy may be caused by the sibo? I am having trouble digesting all this (no pun intended) so any help would be appreciated. 

Serological evidence for celiac disease was present on 3/25 blood test.