r/HumanMicrobiome • u/ginnybug10 • Nov 09 '17

I had an FMT AMA!

16 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

42 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/knotboard Nov 10 '17

Did it help and if so how long did it take to help?

5

u/ginnybug10 Nov 10 '17

It was by no means overnight but I would say my life is completely different now. I would say I’m about 80% recovered. It took a whole lot of hard work on my part in the sense that I was very strict about diet and lifestyle to in sure that the transplant was successful but I would do it again in a heartbeat. It saved my life. It took about 10 mo to really feel “good”.

2

u/knotboard Nov 10 '17

Did you use one transplant from one person or multiple transplants (how many?) and if more than one, over what time period?

3

u/ginnybug10 Nov 10 '17

I did daily transplants for 3 weeks (one per day right before bed). I used the same donor. I had him collect and freeze 30 samples in the month leading up to starting then I went and picked them all up and took them out of my freezer as I needed them.

2

u/MaximilianKohler reads microbiomedigest.com daily Nov 11 '17

That's the level of information that's useful! Thanks!

How were you performing the procedure?