My current regiment

I forgot to mention that I am taking 100mg of CBD every day. This is important for me, since starting this it has made a large difference. My GI thinks it's the main reason I haven't been hospitalized for over 2 years. When he checks my pouch now he's amazed to see no inflammation, you can actually see the stitch marks from the creation of my pouch.

I drink 8 cups of green tea a day, and I can tell you it makes no difference to pouchitis for me.

Perhaps it might have a smaller general effect of systemic inflammation reduction, and maybe a positive with cuffitis.

Pouchitis almost always seems to be a bacterial issue hence the extreme efficacy of Cipro and Metro, for all their faults.

Drinking 8 cups of green tea is not the same as taking the concentrated pill, 8 cups roughly equals 400mg max. Taking at least 2 pills is 1000mg and I'm suggesting 3, just saying. Also my reason for high levels of salt first, kills bacteria and helps flush out the pouch.

If I/you have pouchitis untreated for long enough my regime probably won't work. When I feel pouchitis starting, just taking the green tea extract makes a big difference until I'm able to do the flush.

I'm not saying it's perfect and we all know that different things work for different people. I've never gone this long, over a year without being on antibiotics.

Sorry, but this is just dishing out bollocks advice with no scientific basis.

The RDA for Green Tea extract can be as low as 500mg and you are recommending people take nearly 6 times this amount at 3000mg? Are you a scientist or nutritionist?

I was unable to take certain hydration drinks as they contained green tea extract, and any more than 8 cups of green tea a day is mostly considered unsafe.

Then you go on to spout nonsense about "salt flushes". Jesus wept. Some of the crap you are saying could put people at risk.

Do you have any evidence that your "salt flush" is even getting into the epithelial lining of your pouch, as most of the salt is absorbed in the preceding small intestine.

You also have literally no idea how strong anyone can make their teas, the concentration will be extremely variable.

The ludicrous advice you are giving out about concentrations could cause somebody liver damage, so please stop.

Not sure if I’ve posted this in the right place….Anyone had positive outcome with Doxycycline? Been on varying amounts of Flagyl for 10 +/- yrs. Effectiveness seems to be waning. 8-10+ bm per day and more urgency.  Cipro works good but concerns about long term effects.

I used doxycycline for a couple of months when I had SIBO. I got a bellyache from it, which is pretty common. FWIW I choose to stay on Cipro, which works well, since being sick all the time is (for me) worse than the side effects risk.