My mother has extensive experience with gut problems and IBS and pretty much all the things in that by "extensive experience" I mean "she nearly died" and by "she nearly died" I mean "I am not exaggerating the hospital called us to come in that morning because they weren't sure she'd make it to evening"
I don't know exactly what your problems are but if it's IBS-type stuff I can get you her recommendations in that she has basically been through All The Things including quite a lot of trial and error since she's been dealing with it for nearly twenty years.
Like, most "supplement" things are rubbish and she knows it but there's one you can get in the fridge section of pharmacies called, I think, "Inner Health Plus" that she says is really good (there's also one called IBS Support but that's less good)
(I mean rubbish outside of exceptional circumstances, like during her Severe Illness period I bought her folate supplements because she was losing her hair due to folate deficiency and I, age 19, with very little idea of what folate was or was for, had a very confusing moment when I asked for folate and the pharmacist asked if I was pregnant and I was like "what")
(She spent some time being fed intravenously which avoids quite a lot of tummy troubles but nonetheless she does not recommend it, because it sucks beyond the telling of it in a range of ways, not least among them that just because you are technically being supplied with nutrients does not mean your body does not think you are hungry if you don't eat and also apparently the general awfulness of spending weeks straight on Nil By Mouth is extreme)
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I don't know exactly what your problems are but if it's IBS-type stuff I can get you her recommendations in that she has basically been through All The Things including quite a lot of trial and error since she's been dealing with it for nearly twenty years.
Like, most "supplement" things are rubbish and she knows it but there's one you can get in the fridge section of pharmacies called, I think, "Inner Health Plus" that she says is really good (there's also one called IBS Support but that's less good)
(I mean rubbish outside of exceptional circumstances, like during her Severe Illness period I bought her folate supplements because she was losing her hair due to folate deficiency and I, age 19, with very little idea of what folate was or was for, had a very confusing moment when I asked for folate and the pharmacist asked if I was pregnant and I was like "what")
(She spent some time being fed intravenously which avoids quite a lot of tummy troubles but nonetheless she does not recommend it, because it sucks beyond the telling of it in a range of ways, not least among them that just because you are technically being supplied with nutrients does not mean your body does not think you are hungry if you don't eat and also apparently the general awfulness of spending weeks straight on Nil By Mouth is extreme)