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I am into my 4th week of taking Symprove and it's actually making me feel worse. Is this a good sign or a bad sign? Does anyone have a similar experience?

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Sheeniejay

How worse? What are you symptoms/the side effects?

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Sheeniejay

If you put 'Symprove' into the search HealthUnlocked, it comes up. Positive experiences, it seems. I'm tempted to try it though, despite saying it's gluten free, I'm nervous - I stopped gluten about 4 months ago and initially it was brilliant. Constipation cured it seemed. Now I am back at sq 1 though I'm waiting on a Candida overgrowth test result - had an issue 5 weeks ago, treated for 2 weeks but not sure it's responded. I'd been clear for 6 months. Ho hum. I will contact Symprove to see if I can get them to agree that, if I buy it and have a Gluten reaction, then they'll refund me. 158 GBP plus 40 GBP shipping is a big mistake if I have a reaction!

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Maureen1958

I tried it about two or three years ago. I gave it the best shot I have given anything. Bought the 3 months worth and told myself I would finish the whole lot no matter what. Straight away I noticed I was more constipated. So lessened the dose. Stopped it for a while, went back to it, played about with the amount again. I think I eventually went through about 7 or 8 of the bottles and thought I've had enough of this stuff. Luckily, a friend of a friend was having good results with it, so I gave it to her. At least I knew it had gone to a good home. I have recently done a stool test to check my gut biome and it showed that it was in a good state. So I guess I don't need probiotics!

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Maureen1958

Also it doesn't have a very long use by date. And you have to keep it in the fridge once opened so not very user friendly if you travel. Although I guess most people with IBS probably don't travel too much!

Sorry but I've not used it. The trouble with IBS is we're all so very different. I cannot eat bran as it makes feel very sick and have diarrhoea but others can tolerate it. Our guts are very complex.

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Iesgobdafydd

I used it for the recommended period. It didn't make me significantly better or worse, though I was getting very gradually worse over a long period including that time, so it's a little hard to be sure it didn't have some negative impact. There was a Facebook group for Symprove takers which contained lots of feedback of their experiences with it both positive and negative while I was taking it a few years ago, I suggest you ask in there if you haven't already, it's a private group so you will need to ask to join before you can read it. facebook.com/groups/Symprov... - I think some people may have talked about having to get through a time initially where things got worse before it started to help them but I could be wrong as it's quite a while since I read it and it wasn't directly relevant to me. But four weeks is a long time in for that to be happening, I'd have thought it should be helping by then if it was going to.

It made me worse. I rang them up said I had tried small doses as well and they refunded!

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xjrs

I haven't tried Symprove. Alflorex (which I think is cheaper, though still expensive) worked best for me - it has also been studied for IBS.

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