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Hi Carolyn,
I'm a Carolyn Marie. What is your middle name?? When ever I go back east everyone calls me Caroline. 
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Thanks Karen.
I will get her some Ensure today and see how she does. I also called her peditrician back today and we are getting referred to a ped. gastro at Oregon Health Sciences which is excellent out her and a female doc too. The only thing is she can't get in for about a month which sucks.
Hope you are feeling better. Take care of yourself. 
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How many Citrucel caps do you take per day?
I have been on Citrucel for about 4 months now and am taking 4 caps per day.
They do not regulate me as much as I hoped, perhaps it is time to move on to 6 or 8 caps per day. The directions say I can take up to 12 caplets per day, and my doc is letting me make the decisions on intake amount.
Personally, I don't think I am taking enough Citrucel to help with a BM. Since you have been on them for 2+ years, I just wondered how many do you take per day?
Thanks!
Lene 
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God never promised life would be easy, but he did promise to provide a way out!
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My name is Carolyn Sue. Sue is my mom's name.
Every time someone is writing my name they write 'Caroline'. It drives me nuts! I don't like when people call me that either! 
Now that everyone calls me Cara, and I write it a lot, I get called 'Car-a' instead of 'Care-a'.... maybe I should just stick with Sue. Haha.
Nice to meet you!
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~Cara~
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it's got dairy proteins in it, and some varieties are also very high in fat. I would not drink these - do a board search for smoothies instead, or check health food stores for Amazake rice shakes. Just as many calories, but a heckuva lot better for her and not IBS triggers.
- H
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Hi,
I know Ensure contains a dairy derivative.
I was nervous about it too. But I had a very serious flare up 2 years ago that put me in the hospital and they still had me drinking Ensure to know I was getting my nutrients after I went home.
I have been unable to find the rice shakes Heather refers to in my area. So I don't know what's in those.
I am severely lactose intolerant and Ensure doesn't bother me.
(In fact, I'm trying to get a sample for the doc to see if I have a parasite, and normally if it were to bother me I'd get terrible "D" and I've had no luck in 3 days.)
Let me know if that's what you decide to do how it works. I am glad you have found another GI doc. Let me know if you try the Citrucel Caps how they work for her. It may take a week or two to get things worked out.
I'm not feeling great, but if I can help someone else out meantime, that will make me feel better.
K =)
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Hi Lene,
I take 4 per day (2 in the a.m. and 2 in the p.m.) and I'm OK. I am also very small. My doc said that ideally I should take 3 doses per day unless I found that 2 was enough.
I think if you find you need to take more, go ahead and take ONE extra CAPLET at a time until you find a level that works. When I was adjusting from 2 caps upward I always moved up by one cap at a time for about a week.
I hope that helps.
Karen =)
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Your hunch is right - you're not taking enough to help with a BM. 4 Citrucel capsules, if they're the same capsules I used to take, is only 2g of fiber a day - a long long way from the 12-15g a day Heather's guidelines recommend. (Not everyone needs to take that much, incidentally - I think a lot of people around here stabilize around 9-10g/day. But still... 4 capsules probably isn't enough to do anything.)
I'll let Karen tell ya how much she's taking, though. I'm not taking Citrucel anymore, so I don't have any real input on how much it takes to be effective.
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Nice to meet you too, Care-a.
I love your quote. It gives me goose bumps everytime I read it.
Have a great day. 
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Thanks, Heather. I bought some today and she drank half of one and said she didn't feel good so guess I will be drinking the rest of them.
I will make another trip to the store today to get what you suggested.
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