Fiber Supplements
#349363 - 08/23/09 07:36 PM
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Penney
Reged: 08/21/09
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How should you space out your fiber supplements during the day? Should you take them in between meals as a way of ensuring that you always have something in your GI tract? Should you take them directly before meals as a buffer? When you wake up? At bedtime? I noticed the recommendation to have them at hand in case you are going to a restaurant or going for awhile without eating. That gives me the impression they can be used as a way of getting by when you can't eat something instead. True?
thanks!
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IBS-C, GERD, Lactose Intolerant, "Allergic" to Legumes (Soy!), Tree Nuts.
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I take my fiber in the morning, again just before lunch and with dinner.
Before I was stable, I did notice the before lunch dose did calm my stomach a bit when I didn't eat at the usual time and it did help if I didn't have a snack nearby.
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One great option is to fill a water bottle with acacia and sip throughout the day. It gives a little at a time. I don't actually do this but I think it is the best way.
The other ideal is to have fiber in tummy tea before each meal. this will decrease the appetite so not as much is eaten at a time.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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