Im sure i read adding coconut oil to your diet (3.5 tbsp/day) gets rid of hemorrhoids

BTW what strains are in your yogurt?

I have likely taken more *probiotics* than most people in any given day, and over the last several years through my homemade raw goat milk kefir, water kefir, kombucha, homemade fermented vegetables, mostly sauerkraut, pickles, and kimchi, along with *supplements* some of which were SBOs, and of 100 billion count or more, sometimes three and four times a day... and never ran into this issue.

I also drink whole, raw, unpasturized juices that are loaded with *probiotics* and SBOs.

My immediate thought is... what are *you* feeding them? You do know that we have a symbiosis with this planet's microflora I suspect.

If you do not... I will tell you that what you feed *them* (what YOU eat or supplement with) matters... because their *waste* feeds you with VITAL things like vitamins, enzymes, proteins, fats, etc.

As an example of a problem many people run into...

If you are eating a lot of cellulose (green plants), you need to be sure that you get cellulose manufacturing microflora in your regimen to enhance digestion and breakdown of the plant cell walls, and greatly enhance the nutritional value of the food... either that, or be sure you get cellulase containing enzymes. Eating your greens raw will not cut it unless you grow your own as they are washed, bleached, and sanitized of the microflora that you require.

grz-

Possibly best not to overdo too many probiotics too fast.. I'll bear this in mind when I start on the kefir again soon!

Glad it's a bit better now! Just go slow and give your body lots of time to adjust!

As long as the good bugs are strong enough (like kefir seems to be) I doubt it's necessary to megadose on anything for it to work!

Wow!!! I have had hemorrhoids in the past but I would never of thought that probiotics could cause them.

I cured my hemorrhoids with rutin. I have exactly how I did it on my blog... Not sure if we are able to leave a link here. If we can leave a link, let me know and I will leave it.

Anyway, my blogs name is My Journey With Candida and the link is on the right sidebar under Natural Medications

I used to have terrible constipation... probably from the candida. Constipation is why I had hemorrhoids.

I never would have linked probiotics with hemorrhoids either until I experienced it first hand. When I first started on my probiotic regimen, which consisted of NOW 8 billion Acidophilus & Bifidus 1x/daily and Swanson brand L.Reuteri Plus with L. Rhamnosus and L. Acidophilus 2x/daily, I didn't have any issues. I was having good BM's. It wasn't until about a year and half into it that I started developing hemorrhoids. This is one of the reasons why it took me so long to put the pieces together. I continued with the probiotics for a year and was trying a bunch of things to treat the hemorrhoids. It wasn't until I forgot to re-order my probiotics and went a week without them that I noticed a change--the hemorrhoids started to clear up. Anyway that wasn't enough for me to just stop the probiotics. When my new batch arrived I started up my regimen again and the hemorrhoids started up again. This confirmed it for me. I have since stop taking probiotics and have been hemorrhoid free for about 2 months now.

I don't understand why my body reacted this way. Maybe I was taking too many. However I'm pretty certain that in my case the probiotics were causing the issue.