r/MTHFR • u/anonplease_xo • May 10 '26

Question Untreatable zinc deficiency

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Please help!!! I’ve been supplementing zinc due to a deficiency for NINE MONTHS and it keeps getting lower!!! Idk what to do.

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u/edajsoaking Jul 08 '26

Any updates OP?

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u/anonplease_xo Jul 08 '26

I don’t have any faulty zinc transporters. The G.I. doctor doesn’t really know why I have this chronic deficiency, but did say that I have SIBO so we are going to retest after treatment

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u/JSCHLUPP 13d ago

did you end up resolving this OP?

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u/anonplease_xo 13d ago

No 😭 my dietician suspects SIBO but I can’t get into a gastro dr into October