how ai fixed my chronic gut problems.

i've had gut issues since i was a child including constipation, sharp stomach pains, nausea and loose stools and was repeatedly told i have ibs and that there's nothing wrong with me. i suffered with bad brain fog, trouble sleeping and bad attention span for years. as i got older, it got bad enough to where i needed to eat 3500 calories a day just to maintain 74kg body weight. i was fed up of being gaslit by doctors who dismissed my problems and blood results even if i went to the hospital in pain, so i built my own diagnostic system to just start working through everything possible to get to the bottom of it.

i built a bot that tracked every symptom i had over months, all my blood results, food intake, bowel movements, exercise. absolutely everything possible the bot had access to, over a long enough period of time and enough tests it gathered enough data to analyse and pinpoint what the most likely culprit was, so it booked my tests, flights and handled correspondence with doctors to finally get me a diagnosis for confirmed SIBO and LIBO, through a specialist clinic in Poland.

it started out with just my symptoms that i knew and nhs records (things like my poor bowel movements, low energy, frequent broken bones and low vitamin d despite taking supplements), and it recommended me the most broadly diagnostic tests, some blood, stool and urine ones. it used the results of these to narrow down the most likely diseases. while this was going on, i set up some a/b testing of my diet over a period of a few months to figure out which foods or ingredients were harming me. as weeks passed, it became clear that no matter what i tried eating i had no improvements.

as time went on and data grew, my bot started booking tests for me. it started with tests that would help find unobvious symptoms, such as deficiencies in vitamins or metals. this data led the bot to try testing for some more specific diseases including celiac, BAM, and SIBO. the first ones ended negative, then Claude planned my trip to Poland so i could get tested for what became the top suspect based on my blood results and symptoms. everything from the flight to where i was staying and the clinics i was going to was decided by ai.

the trip was a huge success, i finally received an answer for all of my health problems. literally every negative i had that others didn't finally made sense, as this disease accounted for all of them and more which i didn't consider.

thanks to ai i learnt some pretty eye-opening lessons, such as how unreliable humans can be for helping, as a human mind cannot possibly process as much information as ai, how much useful data you generate just from living your life normally, and that giving ai enough data can literally be life changing especially when pairing it with the tooling to be able to execute tasks. when you're chronically ill, having a bot that easily collects your data is revolutionary, as you don't have the energy or the mental clarity to process complicated information. having the ai analyse it, make decisions for you, and book tests, flights, hotels, and respond and explain things to the doctors for you is an awful lot better than trying to do it yourself.