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I sure don't need it to lose weight...but I was hoping that it would be helpful for cramps and pain. I guess I won't worry about wasting my money on this if it has no impact on helping your IBS.
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Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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I haven't tested it with anything that causes cramps... maybe I'll have some caffiene tomorrow! 
Up until recently I've been concentrating on the loosing weight part. Since that is my main goal.
The only adverse "effect" is that I forgot to eat dinner last night and got shakes around 9PM because of low blood sugar. That's bad. Today I'm trying to stay on my weekday meal schedule so that I don't skip anything.
~ Lisa
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As I mentioned to Augie, the only negative effect is that I forgot to eat dinner yesterday. I really don't want to skip meals, just cut back! LOL
I'm not sure if you were kidding about the "mouse"... that was a opossum that my ex rescued. She was about 6 months old in that picture. It was really amazing learning about the only North American marsupial.
However, one of the things we disagreed about was releasing her. I was against keeping a full grown opossum as a pet, but that was the whole reason he rescued her. I think she should have been released into one of the local forests as soon as she was old enough to eat "normal" food.
~ Lisa
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Lisa, Oh yeah, I was just kidding. Were you able to litter
train her? What is normal food for Opossums? They're herbivo-
rous aren't they? Did she get very big? Can they be kept like
pets? There are some wild animals that do domesticate very
well like skunks,ferrets,rabbits,etc. -Bob
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Let me preface this by saying that this was an orphan. She was either intentionally left by her mother or fell off of the mother. There was no adult female found in the area.
I don't want to insult any one, but I may with this next statement. After raising and/or training a steer, lambs, horses, chickens, cats, dogs, and rabbits... I found out that possums are the dumbest of them all. Now this may not be true of all opossums, but the ones I have had contact with are very stupid.
They like to use a shallow water source as a bathroom, so litterbox training is out of the question. This one couldn't seem to figure out how to not get her tail and belly covered in feces (even though we arranged an area above the water for her to rest while doing her business). She wasn't very good at cleaning herself either. Possums are supposed to be fastidious, but this one was only concerned with her hands and head.
She occasionally tried to clean us. Within seconds I would have a large puddle of drool on or under whatever part of me she was trying to clean.
Possums are true ominoves. You have to be very careful to make sure that they get the correct amounts of everything or they will become very ill. This is one of the biggest reasons that it is discouraged for people to make a pet out of a possum. Not to mention that it is illegal in most cities to have wild animals without a wildlife rehabilitator license and proper facilities.
As for size, the last time I saw her, the body was over a foot long. I've heard that they are usually the size of a large housecat. My cats are 15 pounds each without fat, so my idea of a large cat is a bit different.
While I am glad that I had this experience, it is not something I would suggest others attempt. Caring for an orphaned opossum takes a lot of time and patience. I would adopt another baby to rehabilitate for release, but I would not have one as a pet.
Hopefully, that answers all of your questions.
~ Lisa
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Lisa, Thanks very much for the info. Not that I was thinking
about getting a pet opossum, I was just curious. I wouldn't
have thought they would be that dumb. A friend of mine up here
tried raising chickens once. He said that they are so stupid and
dirty that they actually poop on each other. -Bob
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Quote:
I don't want to insult any one, but I may with this next statement. After raising and/or training a steer, lambs, horses, chickens, cats, dogs, and rabbits... I found out that possums are the dumbest of them all. Now this may not be true of all opossums, but the ones I have had contact with are very stupid.
Gasp!!!! I'd like you to know that my great-uncle twice removed was a possum!!! 
--AC
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I wrote that not just for you, but for anyone thinking about taking a wild animal into their home and trying to keep it as a pet. Before I lived with the opossum, I didn't see anything wrong with trying to tame wild animals. But now, I understand that it isn't right to impose our will upon wild creatures.
And yes, chickens are stupid. After raising about 25 for a livestock show, I couldn't eat chicken for 2 years. Good thing it was before my IBS! Now days I only remember the good things... which sometimes also illuminate how little brains they have. To give you an example, when they were little yellow fluff balls, they were so fun to watch. Incredibly cute and the sweetest sounds! And it was hilarious watching them run across their 4 foot pen to try to take flight and jump the cardboard wall we set up to keep them in. Inevitably, they would never be able to leap high enough or even take flight and would hit the wall. It was sad, but also side spittingly funny to watch them do this repeatedly. I know that sounds cruel, but it was so hard not to laugh at them.
~ Lisa
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ROFL
Thanks for that!
~ Lisa
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